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.
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