President of Inter-Faith Prayers Network and presiding Bishop of Evangelical Ministries Wisdom Chapel, Lagos, Bishop Steven Ogedengbe, has reacted to the recently-released documentary on late Prophet T.B Joshua and his Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN).
“My first reaction as a brother to Prophet TB Joshua, his ministry SCOAN, and his family, I want to say that even when he is no longer here, he is a man of His grace. His grace is so much that a whole documentary about him took two years after his life. They never believed the legacy would be sustained by Pastor Mrs. Evelyn Joshua, who carried the mantle of leadership and led the church. So many great things have happened since he left, ” he said.
In a recent interview published in Saturday Telegraph, the bishop advised Evelyn, Prophet Joshua’s wife, to brace up and focus on God. One good thing, according to him, is that she now understands what her husband went through wearing this shoe throughout his life.
The documentary portrays one of T.B Joshua’s daughters speaking against him to buttress the position of other accusers.
In reaction to that, Bishop Ogedengbe added: “Let me say this, the purported daughter is called Ajoke, I know a little about her. She was an adopted daughter. About 20-something years ago, someone dropped her within the church premises.
“He had a large charity mind for the congregation. It was an open space and there was a truck there. There were two chairs blocking the truck and a baby was dropped there and the cry of the baby attracted the women that were cooking. They immediately raised the alarm that they found a baby. The three women, who were cleaning after a programme, found the baby and pastor TB Joshua immediately documented it and the exercise was filmed.”
Speaking further, he said “the intention to document was to have evidence should anyone come forward to claim the baby before someone would accuse Joshua of stealing a baby.
He thereafter begged one of the women to take custody of the baby and nurture her to life in case the real mother surfaces one day. Before then, they had gone to the police station to do proper documentation. They also made a public announcement concerning the child because he also thought it could be unintentional but nobody showed up.”