Synagogue Church Tackles BBC Over Documentary

The Synagogue Church of all Nations (SCOAN) has countered the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) documentary on its late founder, Temitope Babatunde Joshua, popularly known as Prophet TB Joshua.

It described the report as “illogical, irritating, incomprehensible, unfathomable and satanically dubious and malicious,” and begged God to forgive the sponsors, saying persecution of divine envoys or servants of God was not new in history.

The church also denied knowing the characters interviewed in the report.

In a statement signed yesterday by its public affairs director, Mr Dare Adejumo, SCOAN said it spoke out to disabuse public minds on the BBC report.

The BBC had on Monday released a damning documentary on TB Joshua, accusing him of various crimes, including rape of some church members.

Adejumo said, “BBC World Services investigative unit, code-named ‘Africa Eye,’ came out this week with weird and strange episodes of atrocities against the late founder of SCOAN.”

He said to investigate and publish or broadcast reports was a central kernel in journalism but to do so outside the ethics and fundamental principles of the profession was an aberration.

The church said journalism as societal watch dog requires fairness, balancing and objectivity in order to command dignity, honour and respect as the fourth estate of the realm.

“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,” SCOAN said.

According to the church, there are thousands of human beings who have received dumbfounding miracles and tremendously benefitted from the anointing and grace the Lord imbued the late TB Joshua with.

“Those beneficiaries are all over the place and cannot be disputed that are lining up and responding angrily to this imperialist broadcasting station. Many of them are in the United Kingdom (UK) the home base of BBC, but which its jaundiced investigative eyes cannot see but only the obviously suborned narrators!”

It added that the BBC had obviously shot itself in the foot by its compromise and roadside journalism.

The church stated that it was obvious that the sponsors of the BBC hatchet job must have been envious of the continued growth of the church even after the founder’s death.

“Thank God your report exonerated his only wife of any wrong doings throughout the decades of your so-called investigated lopsided work. But did you think any wife at all can see and watch all those nonsensical and annoying scenarios you painted for decades and still kept silent? I am yet to read or see such a woman in the universe!”