Mr. Dare Adejumo, a public affairs analyst and member of the Synagogue Church of All Nations, criticized the BBC documentary on the late Temitope Babatunde Joshua, also known as TB Joshua, the founder of SCOAN.
On Tuesday, he dismissed the video as obnoxious, adding that the people mentioned in the report were unfamiliar to the church.
However, a former disciple of the prophet TB. Joshua, Paul Agomoh, told the BBC that the allegations were accurate, adding that he had to go into hiding for eight years after speaking out because his life was in danger.
Chronicle NG reports that no fewer than 25 persons gave eyewitness accounts bordering on allegations of sexual assault, physical abuse, faked miracles, and trauma allegedly suffered at the hands of the late TB. Joshua.
Adejumo, on the other hand, rubbished the BBC report in a statement he signed, claiming that the media house “descended into fictional narratives and propaganda.”
“BBC has compromised these lofty principles by descending into fictional narratives and propaganda, thus turning itself into a weapon for a hatchet job as gangsters in the gab of journalism with a destructive ulterior motive for personal gains against a perceived enemy.
“Only the BBC can best explain why it woefully deviated from true journalism and chose to be dishing junk and feeding the public with stones called bread by its offensive and disenchanted reports of disgruntled elements.
“This, to say the least, is insulting to our professional and public intelligence. One thing is very obvious: hundreds of BBC characters cannot rubbish the indelible footprints of TB. Joshua’s legacies on earth again,” Adejumo said.
According to him, hundreds of people have experienced incredible miracles and benefited greatly from the Lord’s anointing and grace bestowed upon His servant.
“BBC has shot itself in the foot with its compromise and roadside journalism. Some of those identified are relics of homosexual and lesbian associates. My findings further show that everything the BBC put together is strange to Scotland.
“One other illogical thing in the charade is the BBC’s categorical statement that the man of God was involved in all the abuse for over two decades!
“How can that be in a nation governed by law? It shows the station’s crude disrespect and bizarre perception of Nigeria.
“Where were all those shameless interviewees in all the decades? Was it when the man passed on that they suddenly became awake or came back to their senses? Only a fool will have respect for such charlatans.”
According to him, the backers of the BBC hatchet job must have been envious of the church’s ongoing growth, similar to the tree planted by the river.
“Thank God your report exonerated his only wife of any wrongdoings throughout the decades of your so-called investigated lopsided work.
“But did you think any wife at all could see and watch all those nonsensical and annoying scenarios you painted for decades and still kept silent? I have yet to read or see such a woman in the universe!
“This is illogical, irritating, incomprehensible, unfathomable, and satanically dubious and malicious.”
Joshua, one of Africa’s most powerful religious leaders and wealthiest pastors, had ‘the entire world at his disposal throughout his lifetime.’
He founded the Synagogue Church of All Nations, a 12-story structure located in Lagos State’s Ikotun neighborhood, where he lived with many of his followers.
Joshua was well-known for his miracles, which ‘delivered’ followers and guests from a variety of ailments, including cancer, HIV/AIDS, severe migraines, and blindness.
Meanwhile, Agomoh, one of Joshua’s former disciples, claimed to be the first prophet under the SCOAN.
“I was the first prophet of the synagogue church, and I spent more than a decade in the synagogue between 1995 and 2006. And I just want to thank the BBC. This is a journey I started in 2009. I released a video with Sister Bisola, ‘The Deception of the Age’.
“When I left there, the incident that led to my leaving is not a story I can finish here. It is a terrible experience. I decided to leave.
“When I left, I could not sleep; I could not rest. The burden was so much on me. I had to move out with the help of some pastors in ministry and my friends.
“We brought this out, but a lot of people said, ‘Agomoh has come; he is blaspheming against our man of God’. They started chasing me everywhere. For a good eight years, I laid low, not doing any ministerial jobs or any public jobs. I laid low, just with the help of a few pastors.
“About three years ago, I started coming out gradually. I was pursued everywhere, from here to Cotonou; you know, these are the nearest places you can run to; from Cotonou to Ghana, back to Lagos, I was running,” he said.
