TB Joshua
The
founder and General overseer of the Synagogue Church of All Nations,
Prophet T. B. Joshua has said Boko Haram may be responsible for the
collapse of a six-storey building in the church premises.
Joshua, who told members of his church on Sunday not to be afraid, said the attack was targeted at him and not at them.
The prophet made it clear that the
collapse of the six-storey building at around 11.45am on Friday which
led to the death of no fewer than 16 persons was a Boko Haram attack.
Joshua buttressed his claim by showing to
his congregation on the Emmanuel TV the chronology of events shortly
before and after the accident as captured by the church’s CCTV.
He said, “I received a phone call
immediately I got here, just 10 minutes later when I was in the church,
that there was a jet hovering over the mountain where I had just left.
They said it was hovering at a close range. Before I knew it, I received
another phone call that the same jet was now at the church hovering
over the building, passing it four times at a very close range before
the building collapsed.”
Joshua read to the church a letter which
he said was addressed to him by a Boko Haram member, confessing how he
had attempted to plant a bomb inside the church.
Joshua said his church was being attacked to scare away members.
“This environment at Ikotun Egbe, we have
never witnessed an accident of a building collapse. This is a very
stable terrain. I have been here for the past 30 years. I am pregnant
with words, but we have left the security agencies to do their job. Let
us believe and educate our people and be alive.”
Assuring his congregation that God would
bring the perpetrators of the attack to book, Joshua said that the
decision of the insurgents to focus on his church might be the end of
the Boko Haram’s activities in the country.
He said,“I know you will ask why the
church? It is because of the spiritual blessings that God has bestowed
upon us. A big head wears a large hat.
“Don’t forget about the Ebola issue too,
it was God that rescued the church. Probably they would have dropped an
Ebola patient inside the church, so that they would said, ‘there is an
Ebola patient in the church, don’t go there.’
“They are trying to scare you from coming
to church. Don’t be scared, you are not the target, I’m the target. I
know my time has not yet come. I have not yet finished my job.
“I want to assure you that our God will
get back at them and you will know when he gets back to them. May be
this would be the end of the whole thing.”
Meanwhile, the death toll had officially risen to 44, while 130 people were said to have been rescued alive.
The National Emergency Management Agency
on Sunday said that 44 dead bodies had been recovered, while 130 people
trapped in the collapsed Synagogue building had so far been rescued.
The Public Relations Officer of NEMA, Mr. Ibrahim Farinloye, confirmed this via a text message to our correspondents.
Farinloye, however, told the News Agency of Nigeria that 80 per cent of people rescued from the collapse building were women.
He said that two female children, aged four and eight years, were among those rescued from the building
culled from punch online
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