The Synagogue Church of all Nations (SCOAN) has refuted the recent BBC documentary on its founder, the late Temitope Babatunde Joshua, popularly known as TB Joshua.
Describing the documentary as unfounded, the church asserted that the individuals interviewed in the report were unknown to the SCOAN.
In a statement signed by Dare Adejumo, the Public Affairs Director of SCOAN, the church aimed to disabuse the minds of the public from the allegations made in the documentary.
The church asserted, “BBC World Service’s investigative unit, codenamed Africa Eye, came out this week with weird and strange episodes of atrocities against the late founder of SCOAN.”
SCOAN criticized the investigative unit for conducting an investigation outside the ethics and fundamental principles of journalism.
The statement highlighted that journalism, as a societal watchdog, requires fairness, balancing, and objectivity, and accused BBC of compromising these principles.
SCOAN accused BBC of descending into fictional narratives and propaganda, turning itself into a weapon for a hatchet job against a perceived enemy.
“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,“ SCOAN said.
“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.”
According to the Church, there are thousands of human beings who has received dumbfounding miracles and tremendously benefited from the anointing and grace the Lord bestowed on TB Joshua.
“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 UK the home base of BBC but which its jaundiced investigative eyes cannot see but only the obviously suborned narrators!
“Myriads of broken homes reconciled by TB Joshua are also crying foul of BBC’s broadcast of iniquity. Uncountable hopeless children drawn from different parts of the world; some brought by their parents while some were picked from drug joints or brothels who have gotten their destinies restored are also pissed off by the offensive reports.
“BBC has obviously shot itself in the foot by its compromise and roadside journalism.”
SCOAN added that BBC would not have lost anything if it had gone to the church, even in disguise, in order to have direct experience of what was happening in the synagogue instead of relying on disgruntled and manipulated individuals some of whom were never known before in the church.
”Some of those identified there are relics of homosexual and lesbian associates.
“My findings further show that everything the BBC put together is strange to SCOAN.
“One other clearly illogical thing in the charade is the BBC categorical statement that the man of God was involved in all the abuse for over two decades!
“How can that be in a nation governed by law? It shows the station’s crude disrespect and bizarre perception of Nigeria.
“Where were all those shameless interviewees in all the decades? Was it when the man passed on that they suddenly became awake or came back to their senses? Only a fool will have respect for such charlatans,” the statement asked.
Further dismissing the documentary, the church noted that BBC just wanted to call a dog a bad name so that they could hang it.
It added that It was obvious that the sponsors of the BBC hatchet job must have been envious of the continued growth of the church like the tree planted by the river side.
“Thank God your report exonerated his only wife of any wrongdoings 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!
“This is illogical, irritating, incomprehensible, unfathomable and satanically dubious and malicious.”
SCOAN concluded the statement by condemning the report, asking for God’s forgiveness for the sponsors, and asserting that persecution of divine envoys or servants of God is not new in history.