Former minister of aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode on Monday reopened old wounds on the collapse of Pastor T. B. Joshua’s church building, stressing that there was a grand agenda behind it.
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) recalls on 12 September 2014, a guesthouse belonging to the Synagogue Church Of All Nations (SCOAN) premises around the Ikotun-Egbe area of Lagos State collapsed completely to the ground.
Fani-Kayode said he has researched the matter for years, and that there is far more to it than what the public have been told, stressing that the church building was targetted and brought down by a very sophisticated device.
“The narrative that T.B. Joshua’s SCOAN Church building collapsed as a consequence of a bad foundation is false. This stale, discredited & fanciful tale was put out years ago by agents of the Deep State to discredit the Prophet & to fool the public. The court case is also a sham.
“I researched the matter for years. There is far more to it than what the public have been told. The Church building was targetted & brought down by a very sophisticated device & those that were in charge of our security services & intelligence agencies at that time know this.
“This was not an accident but a deliberate, cold-blooded & premeditated murder and one day those behind it will be brought to book. They know who they are & why they did it. They also know the length they went to to cover it up. This was a great evil but God will expose them.
“One day the truth will come out & there will be confessions. When that day comes Nigerians will be shocked & those behind it will be brought to justice. May the souls of those that were killed continue to RIP & may God continue to comfort TB Joshua & the SCOAN family for this loss,” Fani-Kayode stated.
Recall that the senior pastor of SCOAN, Pastor T. B. Joshua had linked the tragedy to a strange aircraft that hovered above the building shortly before it collapsed.
The video of the alleged aircraft that hovered above the building shortly before it collapsed was subsequently released on YouTube.
Meanwhile, the then Governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Fashola ordered all church workers away from the scene in-order to properly rescue trapped bodies.
However, coroner’s report unequivocally found the cause of the church’s building collapse to be due to structural failure.
Three government agencies, the Nigeria Building And Road Research Institute (NBBRI), the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN) and the Building Collapse Prevention Guild (BCPG) examined the site and reported inadequacies.
The government also claimed the church did not get government approval before construction.
However, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) and other emergency services were criticized for withholding information about the accident and much remained unclear about the number of deaths and their nationalities.
But, at least, 115 people, 84 of them South Africans were reported killed in the collapsed SCOAN’s building.
Meanwhile, Fani-Kayode’s comment followed a video released by Prophet TB Joshua of a prophecy for Nigeria which he gave almost seven years ago on July 27, 2014.
In the video that resurfaced recently on social media, the SCOAN General Overseer predicted that Nigeria would be covered by a cloud of “crisis, murder, killings, destruction” but would not break up.
“Nothing will happen to Nigeria. Nigeria will remain one,” Joshua assured the congregation during a service at SCOAN.
The video’s release comes amid sustained calls for Nigeria’s breakup by proponents of a Biafran government and other aggrieved persons and organisations, following worsening terrorism, kidnapping and banditry.
“Beyond this crisis, Nigeria is beautiful. Your prayer now is that you should witness it so that this crisis will not take you away,” the cleric declared.
“It is decreed that this nation will be reckoned with as a powerful nation,” he continued, adding that his prophecy would become a point of reference many years later.
However, he warned members of the ‘political class’ of impending repercussions for their contributions to the crisis.
“Huge trouble is coming and no human being will withstand it unless you don’t have hand in that trouble,” he boldly declared.
“There is a cloud that covers Nigeria… the cloud of crisis, murder, killings, destruction covers Nigeria. The cloud will go; Nigeria will remain.”
Joshua then questioned the rationale of those who are “interested in power that cannot give them peace.”
“Power without peace is powerless…The manner you have that power will determine whether there will be peace in it,” he counselled.
“The power is in the heart, not in the gun, not in the White house or Aso Rock. If you are living in the White House without power in the heart, it is like you are living in the bush,” he further added.
Calling on his followers to pray for Nigeria, the cleric insisted that Nigeria would not break up. “I want to assure you: Nigeria – nothing will happen to Nigeria. Nigeria will remain one!”
Speaking on the spate of insecurity fuelled by banditry and terrorism, Joshua revealed: “They have infiltrated everywhere. There is no section or department in this country that these people are not there. It has become a professional job.”
He stressed that protection only lies in God. “There is no one that is secured by power and might and gun that they cannot get unless those whom God protects – because they have infiltrated everywhere. They are no more inside the bush; they are everywhere.”
Joshua called on the ‘political class’ to eschew differences and “discuss about the security and oneness of this country.
“There will be answer if they can pay the price, put their political agenda behind and discuss the unity of this nation,” he stressed, describing the situation of Nigeria as “very sensitive”.
“Quote me once again – security, police, guns, soldiers cannot protect anyone again because everywhere is infiltrated,” he concluded before praying for God’s will to be done.
In a short introduction to the clip “from the archives”, Joshua explained more about the timing of prophecy.
“Prophecy is given when there is no situation on the ground,” he explained during a service on Friday 7th May 2021, adding a prophet would declare ‘it will rain’ when there was no sign of rain in the atmosphere.
During the #EndSARS protests that engulfed Nigeria last year, a video of Joshua forewarning of a revolution spearheaded by youth surfaced and subsequently went viral.