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If this man
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had not disguised himself,
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everybody would have
known this truth so quick.
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The
Bible made me to understand that the devil
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who would disguise himself
like an angel of light.
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He would come as a wolf in sheep clothing,
very, very innocent, very, very subtle.
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But it is until you come very close
to them, you know that they are wicked.
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Now some news coming out
of Nigeria the last hour.
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One of the worst disasters on African
continent in recent memory.
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The death toll has now risen to 80.
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What really happened
at the Synagogue Church of All Nations He
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was never remunerful or
pitiful for these people.
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He could see a man die and never feel it.
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He was all over the world.
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Open your lift, share your testimony
to those who care to listen.
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By this point, Joshua's miracles had
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gained him an international following,
and he was a household name.
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I welcome you in the name of Jesus.
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He had huge resources,
huge amount of influence,
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not just in Nigeria, throughout Africa,
Israel, Mexico, Singapore.
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His reputation globally was enormous.
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He was a God.
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He was the Deputy Jesus.
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Everybody wanted to be
close to the Prophet.
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A lot of Dominicans with dreams in their
hearts for miracles have gathered here
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to witness the momentous
arrivals of Prophet TB Joshua.
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Right from the port, you see convoy,
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army, police, expert riders
in front and back by the side.
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His private jet was very fancy.
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So inside, all the leather interior.
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It was very posh, as you would call it.
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Moments ago, Prophet TB Joshua landed
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and was welcomed by the President
and the entire cabinet.
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Tb Joshua creating an empire
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of these dignitaries and presidents
that could give him credibility.
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He would display these world leaders
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on the stage to show
everybody how powerful he was.
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Man of God, I want to thank you.
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Don't miss a day without
watching Emmanuel TV.
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This is somebody then in the end
who became like a father.
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He believed he was
more valuable than the President.
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People should pay to come and see him.
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They should be prepared to pay
their life savings in essence.
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And that is what happened.
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Would you like to visit the Synagogue
Church of All Nations, Lagos, Nigeria?
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This foreign visitors would
come from all across the world.
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It was the greatest tourist
attraction for Nigeria.
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There was not enough space,
and he's somebody who loved money.
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So he built a guest house.
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He would send people and say,
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Go and see what they charge
at a five-star hotel in America.
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I'm worth that.
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They can't come here and expect God
to give them something for nothing.
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People were also desperate for healing.
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They would pay this ridiculous amount.
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Money is a good thing,
but the love of faith is bad.
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We take the balance sheet
to him in his office.
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Tibi Joshua would stand from his chair
and started laughing.
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Meaning that money has come.
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The guest house was a huge
business industry.
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There were tour groups going up
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from South Africa in quite large numbers
who came to stay in the compound.
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These are my daughter's photos.
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When she was growing up.
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My daughter's Sibongile, Princess.
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It was It was her first trip to Synagogue.
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She was looking forward to be there
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as well, just like every
body that you see on TV.
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This one, it was a week before
she went to Synagogue.
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She still had a Teddy bear in her room.
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She told her, siblings,
make sure you take care of them.
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She was this perfectionist.
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My sister,,
she is a golden child of the family.
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She was injured.
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She had a back problem at work.
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She couldn't get any assistance.
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Somebody referred her to this church
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in Nigeria, promising all these
miracles or whatever.
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Hallelujah.
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You see the miracles every day
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on television, and you go like,
this can only be the hand of God.
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That day, I was working in the office.
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He sent me to go and call someone.
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I went into the church auditorium, and it
just felt like this dust in the air.
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It was really surreal.
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I just saw this huge plumes of dust.
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I was close to his office,
one of the disciples.
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He ran inside and he said,
The building came down.
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The building came down.
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I remember running towards there,
and it's just complete chaos.
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No one really understands
what's actually happened.
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I saw that the whole building had
turned to rubbles that collapsed.
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I realized that it was the guest house.
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That was where 99% of the guests
he had then were lodged.
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It was all silent.
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You didn't hear
cries of people or anything like that.
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And I guess it's because
people were buried so deep.
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You're looking at pictures
from just a few hours ago.
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Part of the Synagogue Church
of All Nations collapsed.
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Many are set to be trapped inside.
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There were all these
news fleshes coming in.
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This church building has fallen,
and they don't know the details.
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The whole family was panicking.
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An incident described as one of the worst
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disasters ever to strike
a place of worship.
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No fewer than 50 persons have been
killed following the collapse.
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The building was believed to be a guest
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house for foreign members
of the TB Joshua Synagogue Church.
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I tried to call my daughter,
tried to send an SMS.
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There was no response.
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Oh, no, that's when now
I could not breathe.
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When we asked for information,
they couldn't give us anything.
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They said, No, I must wait.
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We must pray.
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How?
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No phone call from synagogue.
I couldn't sleep.
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You're waiting for the next day.
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You're waiting for the phone call.
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In Minimum TV, God with us.
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It was Sunday afternoon.
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Tv Joshua came as a life service.
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He was all over the world.
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Let me start from Friday morning.
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I received a phone call that was a jet
here at the church,
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over and around the building,
passing He was flying over
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the building four times at a very low rate
before the building collapsed.
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So we are going to show you the video.
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Take note of the upper left-hand corner
of the screen, a strange aircraft flies
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over the building at the
Synagogue Church of All Nations.
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Nine minutes later,
the strange aircraft returns.
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This is the moment of the incident.
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On
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television,
they were showing us that the building had
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been bombed,
and they were showing us this aircraft.
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Don't be scared.
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You are not the target.
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I'm the target.
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I know my art has not yet come.
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I have not yet finished my job.
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The President's helicopter touched down
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on the grounds of the Synagot Church,
waiting to receive him, Prophet TB Joshua.
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My personal condolence is
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in that of the federal government
to the church,
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but primarily my common here is
to express a condolence to Prophet Joshua.
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I had from Scowen a the five days.
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They said, We are afraid your
daughter did not make it.
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My daughter died in the place
where I thought it's safe.
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Because the Bible said,
Bring your child in the way of the Lord.
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I made sure that they
were always in church.
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I didn't know that I was taking
them to church to be killed.
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That's what that That's
what I was not expecting.
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That Father was not expecting.
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A delegation from this Nigerian Church,
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they came, they pronounced
my sister has passed on.
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I didn't have a chance
to say goodbye to her.
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I was in South Africa.
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That's when Daddy called
and the instruction was I needed to assist
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in going around to these families within
South Africa whose children, husbands,
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or wives had died at the building
to go and give money, bags of money.
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It was scripted.
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Your relative that has passed on,
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they are more privileged than you because
they died in the house of the Lord.
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We would give family cash.
There were no transfers.
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We would give cash.
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We would tell them they mustn't speak
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to media, they mustn't
give reports or anything.
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Basically, we were silencing them.
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When they came, we asked,
Why are you giving us money?
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We were told it's a gift.
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I said, No, this is not a gift.
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You are trying to buy our silence.
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When we refused taking the money,
he started threatening us.
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I'm a prophet, I know
you, I know who you are.
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Just when I said, No, your daughter
won't be happy if I don't take the money.
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It's not that you are poor,
but it's an obligation.
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Your daughter will not be happy.
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As long as in peace,
she will not be happy.
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He sent me these messages.
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It says, If you focus on what you
have lost, you might lose everything.
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Now, he's threatening me that my whole
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family will go down
the same way my daughter went down.
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I started searching for information.
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You start asking questions.
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What are you hiding?
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What really happening?
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The families were lied to.
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The airplane story is just pure lie.
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I can tell you the honest truth.
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On the 12th of September,
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somebody working in the maintenance
department went to that guest house.
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As he was there, he realized that
that building was unstable.
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It was shaky.
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By 12:01, the building collapsed.
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They told us then that,
Don't say what you know.
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So he knew that there was something wrong
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with the building,
but they were managing it.
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There was no plane that dropped bombs.
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It was structural failure.
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During the time it was being built,
I stood with TB Joshua on that building.
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He was given instructions to his head
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of maintenance, and he just kept
pushing and saying, I want it higher.
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It must go higher.
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The foundations were never built to cater
for the height of the building
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that TB Joshua categorically
demanded, Must be built.
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Anything close to Jesus, this is Atal.
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I want to assure you that our
God will get back to them.
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The building collapse is a good example
of everyday life under TB Joshua.
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It's just a series of cover-ups.
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It's just this one was so big,
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it was almost impossible
for him to make it go away.
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Tb Joshua blocked the site immediately.
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He was trying to hide how brutal it was.
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Even the emergency units, they never
allowed them to come in at first.
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So because of that, there were critical
cases where people were trapped.
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I even witnessed one
of the guests that came.
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He was trapped in the rubble there.
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He was holding his leg.
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A church worker like me told the guy
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that the only option is they
are going to cut off his leg.
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They had to bring this chainsaw.
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Fuck.
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Chocked off the leg.
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Issues like that was not handled
without Tibu Joshua's awareness.
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He's the one that gave that instruction.
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I just remember all these people coming
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towards me, and one of them was this man,
and somebody was trying to carry him.
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His leg was just hanging off,
and I think his arm was, too.
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The next thing I would hear is, Emmanuel,
Emmanuel, go and take your camera.
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The man of God needs to see
what is happening here.
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Tibu Joshua wanted me to film.
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He prioritized filming
over rescuing people.
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They created a small hole.
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Then they put in this halogen light.
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When I entered that hole,
my God, horrific sin.
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You could hear people.
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Help me, help me.
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And their voices are finting.
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You don't know what they are going
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through, but you're assuming
that these people are dying off.
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Quite quickly after it happened,
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we all were designated like our roles,
and I was in charge of press.
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Initially, the press weren't allowed to go
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in, but after a while,
we tried to get things organized.
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The church was pulling out people,
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showing to the external media
team that they are saving people.
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Telling them to wait and say,
Thank you, Jesus.
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Thank you, Jesus.
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Then they hit dead bodies.
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So when it was 8:30 to 9:00 PM,
they asked everybody to leave.
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That was when the real work was done.
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All the hands, the legs,
the heads, scattered bodies.
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Oh my God.
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At night,
that was when we were doing the recordings
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of the dead people
as we were putting them into body bags.
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The body bags were being put
in our own church ambulances.
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They were stacking bodies.
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I can't count the bodies
that was brought out.
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There were bags and bags and bags.
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I never knew the final destination.
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We got into a bus,
and the It was like this smell.
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Someone told me that this bus is full
of dead bodies,
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and we're transporting them at night so
that the press can't see during the day.
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The whole system was just to protect the
image of the church and him and TB Joshua.
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When this happened, I thought he would
come and see the site straight away.
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He didn't even go.
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He just stayed in his office And I was
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just like, why is he not
coming to see this tragedy?
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When I left this scene,
I have to go and give him my report.
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He watched those tapes, and I can tell
you, I never saw an atom of compassion.
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He could see a man die and never feel it.
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That same day, he still met one of those
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ladies, the same way it has always been.
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I was like, Again?
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Over the years,
the abuse, the rape was just too much.
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People tried to speak up to expose him,
but nobody would listen.
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Had people listened,
no one would have died.
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To live as part of the synagogue
community is really difficult.
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Sometimes, cracks begin
to appear in your own head.
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Years and years of lack of sleep,
you're so exhausted.
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I had a tap when I was in bed asleep.
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Daddy's calling you.
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And my heart sank.
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I walked up the stairs and I remember
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thinking, No, no, no, no, no,
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It was angry, and it was forceful.
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The most horrendous, terrifying
experience I have ever, ever been through.
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I remember walking down the stairs crying.
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I thought, I have to talk to somebody.
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And I said to one female disciple,
From a human point of view,
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the relationship I have
with Daddy is wrong.
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And she immediately bent and buried her
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head in her hands and said,
I know what you're talking about.
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It does it to me, too.
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And I was, Oh, my goodness.
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And I remembered all those young girls
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going up and downstairs He says,
I'm not the only one.
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We're not the only ones.
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It was like I had a blindfold on.
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And in that one moment, suddenly,
I was like, Whoa, he's not a holy man.
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The
way he hits people,
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the way he shouts at people, the way
we don't have any sleep, the reporting.
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I was petrified because at this point,
I knew exactly what I was a part of.
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I realized I've got to escape.
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There is no fence to sit on.
There's no in between.
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You're in or you're out.
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And that was partly why it was such
a huge big deal to leave, to escape.
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You have to make a choice.
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There's no tracking them.
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If you left, you were leaving salvation.
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You were going to die and go to hell.
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And you really believed this.
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This was terrifying.
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The fear was physical.
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I was shaking.
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If I could have, I would have
ran through that airport.
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I was doing the unthinkable.
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I was doing a sin.
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When I saw the greenfields of the UK,
I thought, I've done it.
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I can't believe this has happened.
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I had to tell TB Joshua wasn't coming
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back, because if I didn't,
they would come after me.
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I said, Daddy, I believe the relationship
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I have with you is wrong,
and I'm never coming back.
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And for those few seconds before I put the
phone down, I heard panic in his voice.
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I received a phone call.
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I was asked if I knew anything about
Anika leaving, and I said, No, I didn't.
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Tiffa Joshua said, She just said she left
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because she says that I
was lying on top of her.
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It just made me think, Oh, my gosh.
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I didn't think that that was
happening to her.
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He had said, That thing
only happens to me.
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Tiffa Joshua started crying and saying,
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You know I've said whatever I do
to you is just for your salvation.
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I've not done this to anybody else.
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Whatever Anika is saying is not true.
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The next thing I know,
I'm called in and some disciples' parents
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are there, and he said, You need to tell
them that what she is saying isn't true.
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I remember that meeting because I had
to lie, yet knowing what happened to me.
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It's just horrible how you go through
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so much pain and then you cover
for the person that is causing this.
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Emmanuelle, thank you for joining us here.
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I was very good at looking happy,
but I was dead for a long time inside.
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I decided I'm him out.
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I can't take this at all.
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When I left, I went back to confront him
because I wanted abuse to stop.
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Why did he come here and meet.
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I I was filming this on my phone
in case something bad happened.
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We'd obviously seen the security
manhandle people before.
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Let me get out.
Let me get out.
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Why can't he come here?
What?
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Is he so hard?
He cannot come here.
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When he had sex with me.
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Let him come here.
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There was just a panic out of nowhere
that just grew in the office.
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Tibi Joshua didn't see it coming.
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He didn't expect Angie,
of all people, to confront him.
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So that day felt like his whole
life was coming to an end.
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Everything that he had worked
hard for was coming to an end.
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The taxi driver said, Okay,
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look, I can't drive fast.
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They're going to shoot my tires out.
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I'd seen police on the gates beat people.
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Beat disciples, beat followers.
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When we're working for a Nigerian state,
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they were working for TB Joshua,
who paid them huge sums of money.
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Two security guards there there held me,
but I just wrest my way free.
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There happened to be an Ocada that came
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past, and I just hopped on,
and we just said, Go to the airport.
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You're in and out of traffic, right side
of the road, wrong side of the road.
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To just get on that plane.
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When
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we left, we wrote a letter that we sent
to the Church, itemizing the serious
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abuses that people were having
to endure George as being a disciple.
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The Church knew they didn't investigate.
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They did absolutely nothing.
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When I left,
I told this police officer everything.
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And she said, Because this happened
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in another country, all we can do is
take your story, give it to Interpol.
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But I never heard anything.
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I watched that place like a Hawk.
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All those brothers and sisters that I'd
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made, I knew they were trapped there in
their mind and physically trapped there.
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Now, as Christians,
our life is not our own.
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Years and years,
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I watched to see who would come out,
who was the next person to leave.
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I write it that would be
betrayer among my workers.
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But greater is he that is a man.
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I was there Almost 14 years of my life,
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all these beating, sexual abuse,
it was too much.
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I was traumatized because was what I
witnessed, I couldn't live with it.
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I had the guilty conscience
of what we did there.
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When I left, I wrote a 13-page petition
against him to the police.
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They couldn't do anything.
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Tb Joshua said, If people
leave, they will die.
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All right, before I die,
let me tell the whole world.
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We team up and did that video.
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I wanted people to know the truth.
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All true believers need to be
aware of the man TB Joshua.
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It was a concentration camp.
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People were being tortured,
suffering and smiling.
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After Bistola left, TB Joshua said she was
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being a betrayer against the Ministry,
saying lots of lies.
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He spoke about that Usually,
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he lets God speak for him, but this time,
he has to defend himself.
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I was called to go and run a voiceover.
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I was given a script to read
targeting Bistola Johnson.
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She was a liar.
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We have to make her look
like a complete nutcase.
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We have to discredit her.
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He'd clearly taken footage of times
she had been forced to confess things.
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What is the problem you
have with your brain?
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I always have a terrible headache, and any
time it happens, I always misbehave.
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I always behave irrationally.
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Is this the behavior
of somebody in the right mind?
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Is this the person who we should believe?
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Bisalah was disgraced
and humiliated created.
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Paula Gaumont, yeah,
he did the same thing.
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Would you put your trust
in a man like this?
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This thing went all over YouTube.
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It's still there today.
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It was sent all around the world.
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That was a warning to everybody.
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If you leave,
if you speak about the things you've seen
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and heard, and we all held secrets
individually, that this could be you.
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Oh, God, please.
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Oh, God.
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Please help me.
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It was all about silencing opposition.
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Cribs, the Defunal of Tibi Joshua.
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When Sister Bisola and the Prophet Agamem,
when they left,
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Tibi Joshua came to the mountain,
said, They are now rebelling against us.
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Tibi Joshua said, I should cause them.
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Sister Abisola Pisho, Agamem Pisho,
they sat it inside that tree.
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The assignment given to me
It's for them to die.
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He didn't tell us the meaning.
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Either it's God or it's Juju.
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But I know God is forgiving God.
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Life was turning around against me.
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I left my house around
10:00 in the morning.
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This when I saw these three men,
they beat me blue-black.
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I'm not a Muslim, but I have to put
on hijab in order to cover my identity.
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Tb Joshua continues sending
different people to threaten my life.
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I ran from Lagos to Abuja, from Abuja
to Cotonou, from Cotonou to Ghana.
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This is terrible.
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Everywhere I turned to was like war.
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Joshua came after me.
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He sent people.
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I was driving.
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They shot at the back of the vehicle.
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He sent them to kill me.
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He knew I knew so much about him.
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All the secret things he do,
the manipulations.
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It is time for healing.
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In the name of Jesus.
Christ.
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Be healed in Jesus name.
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The miracles he did, the whole
thing is stage managed and faked.
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It's faked.
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You are healed.
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You are healed.
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You are healed.
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I supervise everything for years.
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I know everything that happens.
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Come out if you're suffering
from cancer of any part of the body.
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Body poison of any part of the body.
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It's a complicated system.
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We have the emergency section.
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Here is the emergency section
of the Synagogue Church of Our Nation.
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They are being trained by medical doctors.
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Any cancer or situation,
they send them away.
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Then people that have ordinary wounds
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that can heal will bring
them in to present as cancer.
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By his wounds, she is healed.
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Those people are being fed medication.
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They give them drugs
to get a speedy recovery.
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What you just see is
the before and the finality.
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I know because I was
Synagogue Chief Video Editor.
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You would think that that thing
just happened the same day.
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Some of them took a span of one year,
six months.
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With her wound healed
after just a few days.
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Why should anyone
question so much evidence?
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The Emergency Department were responsible
for making miracles look real.
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They would be the ones responsible
for writing and approving the placards.
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The names of their ailments are
written broadly on their placard.
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Someone would come and say,
I've got a headache,
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and it would be written down as
some other exaggerated condition.
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Some people who say,
I'm having pain in my leg and waist.
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We are telling him that, Look,
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if you come out there and walk with your
leg, papa will not pray for you.
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You must shout, Man of God, help me.
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Man of God, help me.
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I cannot walk.
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Man of God, help me.
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I have difficulty in working.
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Man of God, help me.
I cannot walk.
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When I go help me, when I go help me.
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The people themselves are
clearly being manipulated.
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They would be told,
Exaggerate their problems so that God can
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heal you and exaggerate your healing
so that God could your healing.
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You can see her doing what she could do.
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Don't give me the glory.
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Thank you, Jesus.
Oh, my God.
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To be candid,
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I've never seen any crippled person
that was healed in Synagogue Church.
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Tb Joshua was the one who masterminded
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the manipulation
from the beginning to the end.
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It's very difficult when you begin
to dissect
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the fact that these miracles were staged,
because then you have to start
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understanding that people
died who didn't have to.
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Dr.
Tricks, go ahead.
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Tb I'm sure I advise people after
praying for them not to take their drugs.
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If you cannot trust in God
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with your medicine, You cannot
trust in God without your medicine.
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People stopped taking their medication.
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They stopped taking their pills.
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I want to throw this away.
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So where is it at, baby?
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They were dying in their droves.
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So many of them.
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I know people died because they didn't
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take their medicine,
and it's It's difficult to live with that.
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Some people will ask, You know all this?
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Why were you still there?
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It's difficult to explain.
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Tb Joshua told me,
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Don't worry, we use this thing
to build people's faith in Christ.
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I wasn't having in mind that I was
actually doing something wrong.
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I thought I was doing something that will
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help to build the faith
of people in the church.
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This miracle has gone a long
way to build your faith.
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Restore the agony that he
was going through.
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I think everybody that came
from that piece has guilt.
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What's so desperately painful and sad is
we thought we were doing the right thing.
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It's difficult for me to put
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my hands on the number
of people that lost their lives.
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He has a lot of blood in his hands.
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The death of people doesn't
mean anything to him.
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Today marks exactly a year since
the church guest house collapsed.
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116 people, including 85
South Africans, were killed.
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Tb Joshua had claimed his building
was destroyed by a terrorist strike.
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But the corona has ruled
the building wasn't built properly.
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Family suffered a huge injustice because
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it came out later that actually
floors were added without permission.
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So it was obviously a structural error.
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The Corona found that TB Joshua must be
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criminally liable
for whatever happened there.
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He kept on skipping court.
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The whole case was postponed
over and over again.
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It's like he's been protected
by who I don't know.
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Politicians were coming visiting him.
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He was giving them money.
He would give me money.
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Me personally, Drop
it in this person's car.
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There was a time, he signed $9,000.
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He bought the whole system.
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He never even set his foot in court
to come and answer for what happened.
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No one has been arrested.
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All we hear is lies and more lies.
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My daughter I was buried alive
and helpless.
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The pain is too much.
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I'm still waiting for justice.
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We can't get over it
because we have no closure.
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It's like a huge black albatross
hanging around us.
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This pain, we are going
to take it to our graves.
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I don't I tell God that I
miss my daughter today.
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I know she's smiling in heaven.
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In a diary, she wrote For her wedding,
these are the wedding song, and all that.
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I miss her.
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That blood What we're still
there is crying for justice.
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But to TV Joshua, it's business as usual.
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Hallelujah.
Hallelujah.
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Hallelujah.
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Everyone here in the stadium say,
I love Jesus.
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Te amo, Jesús.
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Every night above.
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Less than a year after the building
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collapse, Joshua was back
on the world's stage.
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It was as if the building
collapse had never even happened.
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What matters to him was his reputation.
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Everything was just for camera footage,
to please crowd, to raise his name high,
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and he's ready to sacrifice any one just
to keep that name, even his own daughter.
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My existence as a child
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from another mother undermined
everything he claimed to stand for.
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He felt threatened by the fact that I
had the boldness to confront him.
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He locked her in a room for months.
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She was treated like a prisoner.
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Every day, the beating were not seizing.
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Eventually,
this disciple escorted me to the front
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of the church gate
and then just left me there.
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I found myself homeless.
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The securities of the church,
he has given them instruction,
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this girl should never
come close to the gate.
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He doesn't want to even
hear that she existed.
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I had nobody to reach out to me.
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No one would believe me.
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Nothing prepared me for that,
for that life.
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She was sent on the street as a begger.
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And her dad is a multimillionaire.
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And this is the same person that would
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come out on TV doing charity,
giving people a bag of rice.
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You know how it is to survive
in the street of Lagos?
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It was as good as
she was given a death sentence.
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He never loved people.
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He never cared for people.
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He was just an opportunist
feeding on vulnerable young people.
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Amen.
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The exact moment that Prophet TB, Joshua,
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touched the photograph, we saw a wonderful
example of God power on the scene.
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I had worked for him for years.
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I've sacrificed my life for this man,
and yet Still,
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I was not free from the problem that I'd
gone there with, which was that I was gay.
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All the blame was placed on me.
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It was my lack of faith.
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You used to see that isolation
was the best way to receive Jesus.
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I spent two years
in the compound isolated.
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I wasn't in a room, but no one
was allowed to speak to me.
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There were buildings that were under
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construction, and I used to go there and
smash my head against the wall.
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I I had a complete mental breakdown,
and I tried to commit suicide.
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He knew how I felt, but he didn't care.
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I began to realize that he
wasn't who he said he was.
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That was when I was able to face myself
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for the first time at 33 years old and
look in the mirror and say, You're gay.
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Accept it.
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Deal with it yourself.
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This man can't help you.
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When I eventually got out,
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I started looking for people who over
those 12, 13 years I had been with there.
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And I just went down this rabbit hole
of one horror to another horror.
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People who were repeatedly reaped
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People who'd had abortions, some Nigerian,
some Ghanaian, some South African,
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some Dutch, some from the UK,
some from the States.
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They're all coming back and saying,
Ray, didn't you know?
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You must have known.
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I'm like, I didn't know.
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Why am I going to stay there if I know
this is happening to all these people?
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And it was just...
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It was horrifying.
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You've got this man who positioned himself
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as a father with many children and went on
to rape, molest,
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and abuse all these people who held
that bond sacred and called him Daddy?
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How is somebody like
that permitted to walk free?
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Founder of the Synagogue Church
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of All Nations, Tibi Joshua has died.
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He was 57 years old.
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This is a big shock
to millions of people around the world,
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and of course, many people in Nigeria
who were directly following Thibu Joshua.
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There was no indication that the picture
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was built before
his death that has shocked his followers.
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Thibu Joshua was
the leader and found out-He was a God.
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You never thought he would die.
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Gosh, that is why people went crazy.
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I don't know what to do.
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He just lived us like this.
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I cried when he died.
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I cried for an apology
that I will never receive.
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The Nigerian Senate has
held a minute silenced.
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The lawmakers eulogized Prophet TB Joshua
saying he
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epitomised-He is probably one
of the greatest conmen to ever exist,
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to con so many millions of people
into believing that you are holy.
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It goes into glory,
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where there's no more conflict,
where there's no more strides.
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The bad guy won, and very
powerful men propped him up.
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He had to have his enablers in the police
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service, in the government, different
politicians in different countries.
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Nothing could bring him down.
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We are your sweeters.
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I want to tell my story to say that,
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Look, it's not easy, but you'll be okay.
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You can come out of this and you can
heal and you can find life again after.
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What kept me quiet was fear.
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And fear is an illusion.
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I'm proud of myself
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for having the courage to tell
the truth about who this man really was.
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Here is my son.
I missed you.
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Here's my daughter.
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The fact that I have two kids is a miracle
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because of the trauma I experienced.
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It's not been easy,
but despite all the crying and being upset
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and being upset about friends and family
still there, I'm so grateful to be out.
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I'm so grateful just to be free.
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I I just want to go through my days
where I'm at my lowest point.
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And honestly, I just want more peace,
like tranquility, stability.
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I lost everything, my home, my family.
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But for me, it comes down to the truth.
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And for as long as there is breath in me,
I'll defend that until the very end.
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Good morning, viewers, all over the walls.
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Good morning.
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Good morning, Church.
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It is the new dawn.
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New done.