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 theNews Agency of Nigeriathat 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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