TB Joshua’s SCOAN distances self from former members after BBC documentary
By Hans Ngala
The Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN) has stated in response to the damning BBC documentary that was released on Monday, disowning the former SCOAN members who made damaging revelations against TB Joshua, the founder of the Church.
According to the leading Nigerian outlet, Punch, SCOAN’s public affairs director said the statement was meant to set the record straight after the BBC documentary.
The statement said that the BBC’s investigative unit for Africa known as Africa Eye, failed in the basic tenets of journalism as the report was unbalanced and unfair – a betrayal of the core principles of journalism whose utmost commitment is to society.
The statement read in part:
“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 BBC can best explain why it woefully deviated from true journalism and chose to be dishing junks 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 charades cannot rubbish the indelible footprints of TB Joshua’s legacies on earth again…”.
The three-part investigation had several former members from many countries who spoke of spiritual blackmail, physical, sexual abuse, and staged miracles.
Some said that TB Joshua was keenly aware that the guesthouse of his church which collapsed back in 2014, leading to the deaths of dozens – most of whom were South Africans – was the fault of Joshua who insisted that it be built to his taste. One former church member also said that Joshua showed no remorse after watching footage from the collapsed building with dead and injured bodies in the rubble.
The documentary did not show hidden cameras by the BBC nor the former church videographer although one former church member did record herself demanding to see TB Joshua after alleging, he sexually abused her on several occasions.
