The founder of the Synagogue Church of all
Nations, Prophet Temitope Joshua, has claimed that he saw a vision of the
disappearance of a Singapore-bound AirAsia plane days before the incident.
The AirAsia Flight QZ8501, which had 16
children and 146 other passengers and crew members on board, was said to have
disappeared from the radar in Surabaya, Indonesia on Sunday.
Following the disappearance of the
passenger plane, SCOAN released a video on its YouTube page, in which TB Joshua
accused Indonesia of failing to heed its earlier warning.
“I have a message for the nation,
Indonesia. This country, Indonesia – I don’t know what is happening. They
should pray for Indonesia. That is, the nation Indonesia. When it comes to this
disaster issue, I don’t want to mention it. It looks so nasty to me to mention
– a situation where it will cost a lot of lives, suddenly.
“This is a crash. Why should this continue
to happen there? I think there is a nature – a geographical atmosphere. There
is something there that they should look into,” TB Joshua stated in the video
sermon which the church claimed had been shot days before the plane’s
disappearance.
The church added that on its YouTube page
that in spite of the Indonesia’s failure to look into the “geographical
atmosphere,” TB Joshua and his followers had begun praying “that God would
strengthen the family members and friends of all those involved in this tragic
incident.”
But the British High Commissioner to
Ghana, Jon Benjamin, urged the general public to dismiss TB Joshua’s claims.
“But he couldn’t prophecy his own church
collapsing, killing over 100?” Benjamin, a British foreign service officer of 28
years, who has simultaneous diplomatic accreditationto Togo, Benin and Burkina
Faso, said via his Twitter page.
Apart from the UK diplomat who carpeted TB
Johsua over his claims, an online outrage trailed his prophesy.
A Black Briton, based in Croydon, United
Kingdom, Melody Badza-Chinouriri, lambasted for claiming to have foretold the
air disaster.
Badza-Chinourir said, “I will never run to
a man who does not even own up to the disaster he failed to avert at his
backyard. He even blatantly refused to attend the coroner inquest despite
repeated invitations. No accountability whatsoever.
“I hope Nigeria will wake up and arrest
him this time round. He is putting that country on the spot for wrong reasons.
Let him prophesy all the killings happening in Nigeria. Many people have died
in Nigeria than Indonesia. You have a prophet; why are you perishing then in
Nigeria?”
A respondent on Lawyer Omegad queried the
credibility of the said video, adding that TB Joshua’s controversial prophecies
were useless as they had over the years failed to redeem lives.
“How come we are only seeing this
so-called prophesy today? It’s obvious the video was posted many hours after
the plane has already gone missing. I doubt this because God revels to redeem,”
Omegad said.
Another online activist, Emeka Martins,
said, “Indeed most Nigerians are gullible. Why should they believe in
prophesies of end-time fake pastors. TB Joshua should explain to the court what
led to the death of those people in his synagogue. Why did he not prophesy his
own calamity?”
While other online commentators taunted
the clergyman strings of prophecies, some Nigerians challenged him to foretell
the day in which the abducted Chibok girls would be freed by the fundamentalist
Islamist sect, Boko Haram.
“We don’t want to know which disaster is
next, we want a prayer that will bring the Chibok girls back home,” a
respondent, Samuel David, wrote on SCOAN’s YouTube page.
However, TB Joshua’s followers rallied
round him, fending off criticisms of what they described as his divine calling.
A Malawian, Elsie PembeKumwenda, insisted
on Facebook that the cleric is God sent, saying, “Prophet TB Joshua is doing
what no one can do today. Whatever he prophesises comes to pass, yet we don’t
believe him. We usually regret our actions when it (tragedy) happens. May God
give our prophet more of his grace.”
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