In another attempt to clear his name and image of his church from allegations, Pastor T.B. Joshua has published the new video explaining that his church’s guesthouse collapse was a “controlled demolition”.
The tragedy dating back to September 12 occurred when the building belonging to the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN) suddenly fell down leaving more than one hundred people dead and many injured.
After the collapse, the Nigerian cleric came under attacks over numerous allegations, including the fact that the incident was caused by the unapproved reconstruction of the building.
T.B. Joshua however insisted that it was a terror attack and released the video of the tragedy and showing an unidentified aircraft hovering above the guesthouse several times, hours before the collapse.
A week ahead of the official probe into the matter, which is to start October 13 with involvement of numerous testifying sides, T.B.Joshua released another video on his Emmanuel TV explaining the difference between “controlled demolition” and “structural failure”.
Vanguard comments that the video shows clips of at least 19 buildings across the globe that allegedly collapsed either as a result of the controlled demolition or a structural failure.
In the videotape, 11 buildings caved-in completely without cracks, but with the sound-bite of a blast. The collapse did not affect the surrounding building, but only the targeted one. Meanwhile 8 other structures did not cave-in completely, but had cracks and bending to the left or right with no blast heard.
A member of the Emmanuel TV Partners Ken Emeakayi earlier insisted that the cause of the collapse could not be attributed to structural imperfections. He spoke about the aircraft sighted and about the fact that the SCOAN did have the approval for erection of additional structures.
“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.”
When asked about who could target the church building, the spokesman said they all wanted to know the truth.
“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.”
