T.B. Joshua Honours Synagogue Building Collapse Victims with Memorial Service in S’Africa

 Prophet T.B. Joshua


Akinwale Akintunde
Founder of The Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN), Prophet T.B. Joshua will today hold a memorial service in honour of the 116 victims, mostly South Africans of the September 12, 2014 building collapsed at the church premises in the Ikotun area of Lagos.
The collapsed six-storey guest house was owned by SCOAN.

In a statement, the church said the memorial service, which is to commemorate the first anniversary of the unfortunate incident, would hold in South Africa.

According to the church, Prophet T.B Joshua had sent a delegation from Nigeria to take part in activities leading to the memorial.
Joshua, who described the deceased as Martyrs of Faith, maintained that they were on an appointment with God when they met their death and therefore believes that they did not die in vain.

He however called on the entire SCOAN family all over the world join forces to pray for the repose of the souls of their departed.
Meanwhile, the statement also noted that months after a Lagos coroner had passed its verdict, calling for the prosecution of the contractors that handled the collapsed structure, experts have warned that the government might have been chasing shadows rather than focus on the real issues that led to the tragedy.

According to the statement, the experts, which include Captain Michael Oyediran, blast specialist in the late General Adekunle-led 3rd Marine Commandoes during the Nigerian Civil War and Retired Captain ‘Tele Olagundoye also of the 3rd Marine Commando observed that the way the building collapsed questions the security consciousness of the government, especially in an era when terrorism was becoming highly scientific and sophisticated.

Oyediran said he was alarmed at the September 12 incident and how government inquest handled the matter.
“Considering the evidence of those engineers and the scientist, I became very worried because infrasound implosion was used in my time during the Nigerian Civil War”, he noted.

Olagundoye also said, “I watched the collapse of that building on Youtube. The way it collapsed brought back memories of some of our operations during the Nigerian Civil War and made me fear that terrorism has gone deeply scientific. Now seeing the way government is ignoring dangerous signals and chasing after shadows makes me worry that insurgents may have penetrated and tested the ground of Lagos successfully and the authorities don’t know yet”.

It would be recalled that the DSS recently arrested some Boko Haram commanders in certain areas of Lagos.
The church in its statement also noted that a Boko Haram member had come to The SCOAN to confess the group’s failed plans to bomb the church.

According to SCOAN, the insurgent who spoke on Emmanuel TV, said they would have carried out their evil plan but for divine gifts of the Prophet T.B Joshua, who kept appearing to him in his dreams.