A former disciple of the Late Prophet Temitope Balogun Joshua, popularly generally known as TB Joshua, Paul Agomoh, has disclosed that he had to enter hiding for practically eight years, after his preliminary try to show the actions of the late presiding Pastor of the Synagogue Church of All Nations.
Agomoh disclosed this to journalists, following a screening of a 150-minute-long investigative report carried out by the BBC Africa Eye, titled “Disciples: The Cult of TB Joshua,” which featured testimonies from former disciples and church employees, accusing the late prophet of manipulation and bodily abuse, on the Transcorp Hilton Lodge in Abuja, on Monday night.
Whereas stating that he was the primary Prophet beneath the SCOAN, Agomoh mentioned he was pursued round throughout Cotonou, Lagos and Ghana, by loyalists of Prophet TB Joshua who believed that his revelations had been blasphemy in opposition to the prophet.
“I used to be the primary prophet of the Synagogue church, and I spent greater than a decade within the Synagogue between 1995 and 2006. And I simply need to thank the BBC. This can be a journey I began in 2009. I launched a video with Sister Bisola, ‘The Deception of the Age’. Once I left there, the incident that led to my leaving will not be a narrative I can end right here. It’s a horrible expertise. I made a decision to go away. Once I left, I couldn’t sleep, I couldn’t relaxation. The burden was a lot on me. I needed to transfer out with the assistance of some pastors in ministry, and my associates.
“We introduced this out, however lots of people mentioned ‘Agomoh has come, he’s blaspheming in opposition to our man of God’. They began chasing me in every single place. For a very good eight years, I laid low, not doing any ministerial job, not doing any public jobs. I laid low, simply with the assistance of some pastors. About three years in the past, was after I began popping out steadily. I used to be pursued in every single place, from right here to Cotonou, you already know these are the closest locations you’ll be able to run to, from Cotonou to Ghana, again to Lagos, I used to be operating,” he mentioned.
In the meantime, the Archbishop of the African Church, Abuja, Peter Ogunmuyiwa, said that the investigative report was not an indictment of the church, however reasonably an indictment on the late Pastor TB Joshua, noting that he couldn’t be labelled a legal, since no court docket had charged him earlier than his demise.
“It’s not an indictment on the church, it’s an indictment on who’s accused. And it’s fairly unlucky that he’s not alive to defend himself. All this might have been superb if he was nonetheless alive. And when he was alive, what strikes had been taken to confront these points and get him convicted? So, he’s a useless particular person now, he’s gone, and it isn’t for us to say he died as a legal, as a result of no state legislation convicted him whereas he was alive.”
Ogunmuyiwa added that whereas such reviews saddened our bodies just like the Christian Affiliation of Nigeria, of which he was a member, the physique didn’t have legislative powers or a legislation that coated CAN, to cope with such individuals or church. He nonetheless referred to as on the federal government to make legal guidelines to manage church buildings and license seminaries to tutor pastors.
“I additionally consider that, if attainable, let there be laws to manage. So that individuals is not going to simply be behaving anyhow. You possibly can’t simply come out at this time and say you’re a Pastor, which establishment, which seminary, which school of theology did you go to earlier than you say you’re a Pastor? After which the federal government ought to discover a method of registering after which licensing these colleges to manage them, identical to we’ve got the college fee. I feel it’s excessive time they launched that into non secular our bodies additionally so that we’ll be getting ministers which are effectively educated, and which are recognised by the state,” he mentioned.