TB Joshua’s Synagogue Church Insists Guest Building Collapse Was ‘Controlled Demolition’

Pastor T B Joshua’s Synagogue Church of All Nations, SCOAN, Ikotun Egbe, Lagos yesterday, released another video clip to establish its continued position that their Guest building collapsed as a result of what it called controlled demolition.

This is coming barely seven days to the commencement of the coroner’s inquest instituted by the Lagos State Government to establish the cause and manner of the recent collapse of a building at SCOAN.

A statement by Mrs. Bola Akingbade, spokesperson of the Lagos State Ministry of Justice, said the inquest would commence on October 13 and would take place at the Ikeja High Court presided over by Magistrate Oyetade Komolafe.

In the two minutes and 20 seconds video titled Controlled Demolition Versus Collapse By Structural Failure, posted on its Facebook page, TB Joshua Ministries showed clips of at least 19 buildings across the globe that purportedly collapsed as a result of controlled demolition, as well as structural failure.

The video clip showed 11 buildings caving-in completely without cracks, but with the sound-bite of a blast. Also, the collapse did not affect other surrounding buildings but the targeted building. However, eight other buildings did not cave-in completely, but had cracks and bending to the left or right with no blast heard.

Ken Emeakayi, a member of the Emmanuel TV Partners owned by SCOAN, during an interview on September 29 on a local television station, had refuted claims that the building collapsed as a result of structural failure.

Emeakayi, who argued that the collapse was not unconnected with a controlled demolition said: “On that fateful day, as it is customary with Prophet T.B. Joshua, that he will always be at the prayer mountain early every day, he went to the prayer mountain that day, but later left there unceremoniously and unannounced. After leaving the prayer mountain, this aircraft was seen hovering around the prayer mountain at a very low altitude. So, when he (Joshua) was called, he told the caller that he had already left the prayer mountain and had returned to the church.

“After he had left the prayer mountain, the same aircraft was sighted hovering around the church premises by 11.30am, about 40 feet from the building. After hovering the first time, it came back five minutes later and 9 minutes later. It continued like this four times. The CCTV got it very clear, because it is all over the church premises. It was after the fourth time that the building collapsed and the aircraft never came back.”

Asked what was written on the aircraft, he said: “That is the issue, that is what we want to know. We could not from that point see what was written on the aircraft. Like I said, when we watched through this clip, you could see that it was the same aircraft. And some air staff living around that vicinity that have watched the clips, have actually told us the make of the aircraft and what it looks like. This is why we have written an open letter to the President of this country, we are asking for an inquiry into this incident.

“Because from the clips captured by all the CCTV cameras, it has become obvious that this building never collapsed on its own. This is what we can call a controlled demolition. When this building went down, other surrounding buildings never had any crack, but just this one, and that is why we said it is a controlled demolition.

“To buttress this fact, we have been able to get clips of controlled demolition across the world, to show similarities. Controlled demolition, is a new technology that you can isolate a building in an area, bring it down, without any other surrounding building being affected. Our interest is that we are requesting for a holistic inquiry from government, so that the world will know what happened.”