Why T.B Joshua and his church should be prosecuted

by Leo Igwe

The prosecution should also be used as a means to send a strong message to the owner of the church, T.B Joshua and other charlatans across the country who claim to be faith healers that their time is up.

Now, the Coroner has spoken, and the court has dismissed the obviously fictitious claim by the Synagogue Church of All Nations, that a small plane which it alleged, had been circling the building was responsible for the collapse, the government of Lagos must act and act now by bringing criminal charges against this church. It needs to sanction the Synagogue Church of All Nations.

The government should prosecute T.B Joshua’s church for so many reasons.

First it should get the church penalized for not obtaining proper approval before erecting the building because construction defects were blamed for the collapse. Also, it is important for people who lost their loves to this tragic incident to know that the government of Nigeria is doing whatever it can to ensure that justice is done and that those who have been implicated in the collapse of the building are facing the full wrath of the law.

The prosecution should also be used as a means to send a strong message to the owner of the church, T.B Joshua and other charlatans across the country who claim to be faith healers that their time is up. Joshua has been making reckless irresponsible and baseless miracle cure claims. He says he has prophetic and supernatural powers to heal all sorts of diseases including HIV/AIDS and stages healing dramas at the church in Lagos. Unfortunately there has not been any effort by the Lagos state government or the Nigerian government to verify the miracle cure claims of this controversial pastor. Instead, state officials have looked the other way while T.B. Joshua gradually grew his church using fictitious prophetic and miracle cures.

If the health care agencies in the country had risen to their responsibility, T.B Joshua might be serving a prison sentence by now for peddling fake cure claims or he might not have had the opportunity and resources to grow the Synagogue Church of All Nations, to the point of attracting foreign miracle seekers from different parts of the world.

Sadly, most of the dead were citizens of South Africa who came to the Synagogue Church of All Nations to access faith healing only to meet their untimely death. Now think about this. If T.B Joshua had any supernatural healing powers, why didn’t he raise those who died after the building collapsed? Why didn’t he heal those who were wounded? That means he would have avoided being prosecuted and stopped what is clearly an imminent closure of his church? If he does not have the acclaimed supernatural powers, why has he been parading himself as a faith healer? Why has the government of Nigeria not sanctioned him? Why has Lagos state not closed down the Synagogue Church of All Nations?

Now this is an opportunity to rectify this negligence and stop the exploitation by T.B Joshua of vulnerable sick persons who are desperately looking for cures. The government should prosecute the Synagogue Church of All Nations and expose the fake and irresponsible cure claims, the faith healing theatrics and supernatural pretensions of the church and its founder. The world is watching

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Comments (11)

  1. Judge not so that you might not be judged. Most of the people that are against this powerful man of God are muslims, but i don’t blame them cos vengeance is the Lord’s.

  2. Who are you to judge.

  3. Touch not d anointed and do my prophets no harm

    1. Usoro you are very correct for it is Biblical Remain Blessed. ( YNAIJA. You did not published my complete comment for Faisal Adamu on 22/07/2015 you omitted most of my point. Why?)

  4. T.B Joshua should be in chains facing at the very least a life imprisonment and all his idiotic followers who would look at common sense straight in the face and say “mbanu! it’s the mumu way we want to follow,” should follow him in that sentencing. Good riddance, to be honest!

  5. Why are we so wicked to ourselves?, why do we not always appreciate what we have? This is the same man that is being respected and celebrated all over the world and well known. Can someone who doesn’t know what he is doing be Wellcome anywhere he or she goes? Look we should be careful on what we say about our fellow brothers not to talk of man God. All I know is that, it’s only possessed/ demons that are against the Prophets since demons are always in trouble whenever it’s come in contact with Men of God. All I know is that one day the truth will prevail for the world to see.

  6. pls nd pls dnt play wit d holy spirit,cant u c d devil is at work?

  7. you will be the one to die. People should b careful how the go about seeking for miracles, i av witness some people that went there and their problem remain thesame. Any prayer i pray for my self is best.

  8. it true i av always seen the fack of this man, he said his eyes can see beyond imagination why didnt he saw that his buiding was going to collapse? Atleas he could have save the life of tho inosent people.

    1. Its Gods will that they died my prophet saw it and he said to God let his will be done. So becarefull be warned watch your tongue and ask for forgiveness. Because you cannot fight the holy spirit if yu do you will die

  9. The writer of this article must be a demon possessed person cos it’s only demons are against the Man of God, That demon has to be very very careful & be ready for God’s destruction.

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