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DISCIPLES: The Cult of TB Joshua, Ep 2 - Unmasking Our Father - BBC Africa Eye documentary

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    Could you tell me a little bit
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    about the fear about speaking out?
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    It was so hard to come out because when I
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    Jesus, come on, help me.
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    I can't anymore.
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    You find yourself doing prostitution
    You find yourself fornicating.
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    You find yourself doing every evil thing.
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    He created narratives about all of us.
    Well, you know this come.
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    They've got a problem with men.
    Promiscuous.
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    Take them.
    Lever.
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    Lever.
    Lever them.
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    In the church, her lot must be delivered.
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    Out.
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    I was a virgin, so I didn't understand
    what this last, last thing was all about.
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    It was the worst decision
    I've ever made going there.
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    I will never experience fear like it ever.
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    Everybody wanted to know how he got his
    power, but the story was just like...
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    Vapour.
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    There's a wish doctor here.
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    You are not a pastor,
    but you call yourself pastor.
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    You use evil power.
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    The world needs to be awakened
    to the truth of who TB Joshua was.
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    My dad, he had fear He
    had fear, constant fear.
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    He was very afraid that
    someone would speak up.
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    Turn around and make him answer
    to those things that he had done.
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    Come on.
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    Tb Joshua told me, personally,
    every 2,000 years, God sends a saviour.
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    Christ is over.
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    That he is the next Listen in line now.
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    This one thing has been
    damned by God Almighty.
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    I used to watch a really big American
    evangelical television station.
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    He'd laugh, and he used
    to tear them apart.
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    But he actually just really
    wanted what they'd got.
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    He realised that this teleevangelism
    was a way to reach the world.
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    Isn't that just amazing?
    Look at that.
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    Okay, but now listen to me.
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    In a huge office.
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    Everything big, got little.
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    Disciples had to help set up
    this thing called Emmanuel TV.
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    This
    24 hour a day broadcast about Tibu Joshua,
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    who is unlike any other
    pastor in the world.
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    Just by him walking into a building, these
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    evil spirits would start shaking about.
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    He is so powerful,
    more powerful than Satan himself.
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    You devil, you devil, you devil.
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    Bring them out.
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    Bring them out.
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    When Emmanuel TV came out
    in 2006, that was huge.
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    Millions of people tuned
    in all over the world.
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    My name is Chloe.
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    You're welcome to the Arena
    of Liberty in Jesus' name.
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    The live service had probably
    50,000 people attend.
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    We thought that this was the thing
    that would change the world.
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    Some people ended up stopping going
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    to their own churches that sit
    home and watch Emmanuel TV.
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    Everybody wanted the privilege to go with,
    to meet this big giant called TB Joshua.
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    I was 17 years old when I went
    to the Synagogue Church of All Nations.
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    It was Emmanuel TV that hooked me in.
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    It felt I felt like,
    I finally found my purpose in life.
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    The whole compound revolved around T.
    B.
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    Joshua.
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    He is second in command to God.
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    We live in that environment
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    that everybody try to outdo one another
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    to make him happy.
    T.
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    Joshua's room or apartment was right at
    the top at the end of the church building.
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    B.
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    He doesn't have his own house
    where he stays with his family.
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    No.
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    His wife was on a completely
    different floor.
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    He lived there completely by himself.
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    We used to refer to it as Five Story
    because it was the fifth floor.
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    It was very lavish
    presidential set of rooms.
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    Daddy, as we used to call him,
    he had young Nigerian boys that would run
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    around for him up in his
    five-story bedroom.
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    They'd get anything he wanted.
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    They'd do his hair,
    they'd wash his underpants.
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    We were called Five Story Brothers.
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    That is young guys like me that has
    the opportunity to serve the prophet,
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    just literally serve him just
    the way the maid serves the king.
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    People compare his Five Story Brothers be
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    his personal slave because
    everything he needs, you must be there.
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    All is in my mind is, where is he now?
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    Has he eaten?
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    Has he taken his bath?
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    Is he showered already?
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    You have to be there in his privacy.
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    If I can use the word, even to the nudity,
    you see everything.
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    When team Erosion needs to go
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    to the toilet,
    two of us has to be there in the toilet.
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    He would remove his underwear
    to his knee level.
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    Then we're pulling it down.
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    We don't allow him to bend down.
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    There was a lot of strange things
    behind closed doors.
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    His underwears, his underwears.
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    You know he wears white?
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    Most times, he pours this honey.
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    He will pour it inside his pant,
    inside his underwear.
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    He will pour it there.
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    When he pours those on there,
    he rears the underwear.
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    And I was like, What's
    the significance of this?
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    Why is he doing this?
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    There's a wish doctor here.
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    And her name is El Khartou Wizard.
    Abalist.
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    I am the ultimate.
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    People were constantly suddenly
    coming for deliverings for witchcraft.
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    What were you asked Abalist to do for you?
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    You went there and Abalist may
    give you money to rob your private.
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    A true man of God.
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    All started when my mother and my father
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    die, then when they took
    her to wish daughter.
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    I worship an idol.
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    What is this, your mommy water?
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    After those people had delivered,
    they would stay at the prayer mountain.
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    They would lodge there
    at the prayer mountain.
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    Hallelujah.
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    Hallelujah.
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    Now, today, we start the synagogue here.
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    Amen.
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    This is the prayer mountain,
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    the original site of the
    Synagogue Church of All Nations.
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    Prayer mountain is a place full of water
    that Timbi Joshua drens.
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    He has different islands on the lake
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    there, and each of them has different
    prayer huts, prayer houses, small huts.
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    I don't think there's any
    week that he doesn't go there.
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    That's where he stays.
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    He stays and does most of his work.
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    People think the prayer mountain is where
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    to go and pray, but there is more to that.
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    There is more to that.
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    The 16 years I spent there,
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    we are the prayer warrior,
    which is the powerhouse of the ministry.
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    I'm able to be the leader.
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    It will give you different assignments.
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    There was one day, Titi Joshua
    came to the mountain.
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    They caught one fish alive, very big.
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    So in my present, Tigo Joshua caught
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    his bear, caught part of the hair,
    his private part.
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    He pulled those things
    in the mouth of that fish.
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    He was to take it back
    to the river and drop it.
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    That was how they start multiplying.
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    When they lay eggs,
    they lay thousands of eggs.
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    It's secretive.
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    If we are talking about spiritual power,
    either it's Satan or it's God.
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    Lose me love from all
    relationships of the flesh.
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    Sexual immorality was a common thing
    that he would always talk about.
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    You have flattening spirits.
    Just man of God.
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    This spirit is like dog.
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    You are the one looking for men for sex.
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    It's true, man of God.
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    We were all supposed to be celibate.
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    We were taught that everything
    sexual was bad.
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    It was sinful.
    It was wrong.
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    In Emmanuel, we have something
    to be excited about today.
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    Why are you...
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    A spirit of...
    A what?
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    A what?
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    I believe that by my nature, I was unholy.
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    I was gay, and that I didn't want to be.
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    I had this huge battle going on in my
    head, and I thought he could help me.
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    I see you as a high Lord.
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    He always painted and shamed women
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    for being high Lord
    and having the spirit of last.
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    In the church,
    high Lord must be delivered.
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    Every woman had lust.
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    Every female was struggling
    from the spirit of lust.
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    That spirit of immorality, out.
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    He created narratives about all of us.
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    Oh, this one's come.
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    They've got a problem with men.
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    Promiscuous.
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    He would tell me,
    Look at the way you are looking.
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    You are not even concentrating.
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    You are not doing this.
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    It's a spirit of lust.
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    You want to masturbate
    Every time you are alone.
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    And I want to help you.
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    I can help you.
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    There is a lady, you are a prostitute.
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    It has become a professional
    job for you, prostitute.
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    He got me to write down that I am
    a prostitute from Namibia 400 times.
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    And then I signed on camera that it is
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    me, Jessica, signing,
    I'm a prostitute from Namibia 400 times.
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    It is hodge.
    Hodge.
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    Hodge.
    Yes.
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    No man can satisfy you.
    It's true, men of God.
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    It's true, men of God.
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    The repetition, lust in the morning,
    afternoon, evening.
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    You were sleeping because lust,
    anything you do, lust.
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    I started believing that maybe
    Maybe I have it.
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    I was a virgin, so I didn't understand
    what this last, last thing was all about.
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    We had this weird culture of we had
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    to phone him before we went to bed,
    and there were phones all over the church,
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    and it was considered really,
    really not cool.
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    It was a ritualistic thing,
    like morning prayers or evening prayers.
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    Good night, good night, Daddy.
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    Good night, sir.
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    You had to do it.
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    You'd phone his bedroom on the intercom,
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    and it would ring, and ring, and ring,
    and ring, and ring, and ring.
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    I'd be like, Hello, Daddy.
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    It's Rachel.
    Good night, sir.
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    He'd be like, Okay, good night.
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    And he just put the phone down.
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    Just like, no interest.
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    My friends used to call them,
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    and they used to go up to his room
    with their Bible and their notebook.
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    They'd go up and they'd come down,
    they'd go up, they'd come down.
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    And I often used to think to myself,
    Why doesn't he call me?
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    I need to try harder.
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    There is no way you will know
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    who Thibault Joshua is if
    you don't live with him.
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    We happen to sleep in his bathroom.
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    We had to sleep on the floor.
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    The little space there
    where we have his towels being hanged,
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    that's where we lie
    on the floor on bare tiles.
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    At a particular time in the middle
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    of the night, he just asked us
    to go to our room to go sleep.
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    He would put us in the room next door.
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    He would lock the door.
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    Next thing we hear from inside the room is
    he turns on the TV set aloud.
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    Very, very loud.
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    Luce me love from all
    relationships of the place.
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    I was curious Why?
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    Why is Daddy locking us outside?
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    I was curious.
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    So I had to peep under this door.
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    When I peeped under the door,
    I saw a certain lady's foot there.
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    She knelt down close to the long chair.
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    Then I realised that something
    was happening there.
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    Some activities was going on.
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    It's as if something
    sexual was happening here.
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    I knew that the wife was not around.
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    His wife doesn't have access to his room.
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    He made us believe that his wife
    is always sent to tempt him.
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    A lot of thoughts were
    going through my mind.
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    It was like that he's trying
    to cover up something.
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    I'd be climbing on my bunker bed,
    exhausted Absolutely exhausted.
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    And you'd get a tap.
    That is calling you.
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    That is calling you.
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    Oh, I want you to come up.
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    I want you to come and see me.
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    One night, they phoned and he was like,
    You know, you did so well today.
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    He said, Okay, come up, bring your Bible,
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    and let us look at your
    Bible notes with you.
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    This is early hours
    of the morning, 3, 4, 5.
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    You were so knackered.
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    This is on 2 hours of sleep
    from the night before.
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    The room It was like a sanctuary.
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    Carpet was so soft, really thick carpet.
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    It was luxurious.
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    A big bellowing curtains.
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    He got his shirt off and his shorts on.
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    Sitting down on his chaise long, he said,
    Okay, can I read some of my notes?
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    He'd beckon me over and I would
    kneel beside the chais longe.
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    He was like, How am I?
    And how's things?
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    And he loves me very much, and
    how God's going to superuse me.
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    You're so good at preaching.
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    Don't ever leave me.
    Don't ever leave me.
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    No, no, no, Daddy.
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    No, I won't.
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    He told the lads that were in his
    bathroom that they should sleep.
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    He stood up and he locked the doors,
    and he switched the lights down.
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    He said to me, Oh, can
    you take your pyjama bottoms off?
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    And I just was like a robot.
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    I just was like, Oh, yes, sir.
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    And like a parrot, like exactly what I did
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    for every other instruction
    that he'd given me.
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    Yes, sir.
    Yes, sir.
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    Yes, sir.
    Yes, sir.
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    Like a freaking robot.
    Yes, sir.
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    I've come the pyjama pants.
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    He would come towards me,
    and then he'd wrap his leg
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    around the back of my legs
    and lower me like a plank onto the carpet.
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    He lowered me on my back to the floor.
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    He started sticking his tongue in my ear.
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    It was this ear first,
    and then he went into that ear.
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    And I remember lying there like a piece
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    of wood, I'm thinking,
    what the What is he doing?
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    It's disgusting.
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    It's disgusting.
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    What?
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    And I totally froze.
    I just panicked.
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    It went into complete panic.
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    He was grinding and sticking his fingers
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    and his tongue in my ear,
    and I'm lying there.
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    And then within five minutes,
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    he's basically done his business
    and masturbated on me, basically.
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    Gets up and says to me, Okay, you can go.
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    I was 17 years old.
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    I didn't realise what was happening to me.
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    I was a good little Christian girl.
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    I didn't know what it was.
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    It became so robotic.
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    I disconnected from my body.
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    I just became like a puppet.
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    Going up to his room in the middle
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    of the night, I always saw
    young girls coming downstairs.
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    My mind would sometimes go,
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    I wonder if they're having the
    type of time I'm having with him.
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    At first, it was like, remove your top,
    and I would be uncomfortable with it.
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    And if I didn't do what he wanted,
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    then he would threaten me to the point
    where eventually he would
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    assault me and then
    blame me afterwards and say, You did this.
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    You did this.
    Look at what you've done to me.
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    Look what you've done.
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    Each embarrassment you receive,
    each insult shot you receive,
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    each prosecution you receive,
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    would draw you closer, closer to Jesus.
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    The first time that he made any sexual
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    move on me, he touched my breast and he
    was hugging me and breathing heavily.
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    I went to to one of the disciples,
    Does he touch you inappropriately?
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    She jumped and said, No.
    He's my father.
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    Even if he touches me, even if he hugs me,
    I know that he is my father.
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    You would confide in someone
    before you know it.
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    Meeting, meeting, meeting.
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    Once you hear a bell for meeting,
    everybody starts shaking.
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    Who knows what is going to happen now?
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    When we have the disciple meetings
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    at night for reporting,
    you would just see people running.
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    So when you see people running,
    when you see disciples running,
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    you just run and you follow
    where they're running to.
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    You would just run.
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    Discipleship meetings They
    filled me with a sense of doom.
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    He'd start the meeting and say, Okay,
    who has a report?
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    I just opened the door,
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    and when the other woman was standing
    there with this woman,
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    and I phoned my own guard and said,
    I don't know what's going on.
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    I was thought by the alcohol woman,
    this woman in the very dark place.
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    So I was very surprised.
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    We were obligated to go and report
    and tell TB Joshua every single thing.
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    If you did the wrong thing,
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    there was punishment,
    and that was served in different forms.
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    The sister reported me and said, Oh,
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    Jessica called me and told me
    that you touched her inappropriately.
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    He stood up from his chair.
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    Do I do that to you?
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    Can I do that?
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    A man of God?
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    And she said, No, sir.
    She's lying.
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    She's just lustful.
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    He hit me.
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    He slapped me.
    He punched me.
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    He killed to me in the stomach.
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    All disciples go through this.
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    Even the most powerful people have to be
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    brought down because he is
    at the very top all the time.
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    If there's a plan for you,
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    when you come to that meeting,
    you will be able defend yourself.
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    Shut up.
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    Keep quiet.
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    What do you want to say?
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    Do you want to argue with Papa?
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    Do you want to argue with Daddy?
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    Man of God, please.
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    Oh God, please help me.
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    That's me speaking.
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    What are the things you're used to do?
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    I'm stubborn, I'm proud.
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    I need for Please, please,
    please, everybody, please.
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    You are the only able to have
    done me, but I've changed.
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    I've been laid flat on the floor.
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    My skirt was lifted up
    and I was just naked.
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    It hits me with that horse whip.
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    He actually laid down on the floor.
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    He would use it.
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    Power, power, power, power, power,
    power, power, power, You were blood.
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    He beat you with that mercy.
    Why?
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    I'm in crisis, all I have.
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    Please help me, sir.
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    Many at times, I have been
    punished with beatings.
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    You are at his mercy.
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    You're at his mercy.
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    I remember her being in a state
    of emotional turmoil.
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    No one is ever in that top
    position the whole time.
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    That's the cycle.
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    You're built up and broken down.
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    Look, don't show any
    sympathy for this boy.
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    Tb Joshua liked to humiliate people.
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    He humiliates people so much.
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    One day, I called him and said,
    Daddy, why are you so angry like this?
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    He laughed.
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    He said, I know what I'm doing.
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    It will put fear in the disciples.
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    He was really violent.
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    We don't speak about these things.
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    There was no safe place.
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    There was no friend.
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    There was nobody you could go to and say,
    Oh my God, this happened.
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    I saw this.
    He'd be terrified.
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    He made everybody your enemy and you,
    everybody else's enemy.
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    I know what it is to be poor, and I also
    know what it is to have more than enough.
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    We are school fees
    from primary to university.
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    I'm ready.
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    Tb Joshua has double face.
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    The face on Emmanuel TV and the real face.
  • 26:49 - 26:52
    You are no more a poor lady again.
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    One million naira for you.
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    Wow.
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    My voice is so far, God.
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    When you finish university,
    you want to have something to do.
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    Okay, don't worry.
    We will make sure we get you established.
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    God had told him that he must show
    other people the right way to live.
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    You started having massive events
  • 27:15 - 27:18
    for people that had got disabilities,
    wheelchair-bound people.
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    He'd give them rice, he'd give them food.
  • 27:21 - 27:24
    There was this massive show of generosity.
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    We're going to put the first
    10th up on this flat area.
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    We're going to put communities
    inside, children, old people.
  • 27:32 - 27:37
    $10,000 from Pupperti Bidushua
    and Emmanuel TV.
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    His shield was his message.
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    This mass outworking of charity
    to cover who he really was.
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    Nothing is as strong as love.
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    Spoken from the heart, I love you.
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    It was very difficult to watch
    this man preach every Sunday.
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    Topics about love and about mercy,
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    they felt very strange
    coming from his lips.
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    I stayed myself in the mirror
    a lot of the time.
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    Maybe I do look like him.
    Maybe.
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    For as long as I can remember, I have
    been raised as TB Joshua's daughter.
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    I knew the child,
    Ajokey, right from birth.
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    She's his actual daughter,
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    his biological daughter,
    with another woman outside of wedlock.
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    He didn't seem to like her very much.
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    She was labelled the black
    sheep of the family.
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    I was in primary school.
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    I was made to move to the disciples room.
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    I didn't volunteer to be a disciple.
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    I was made to join.
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    A joker grew inside the synagogue
    like an outcast.
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    I think he wanted to keep her a secret.
  • 29:03 - 29:09
    I don't think he wanted
    anyone to know who she was.
  • 29:09 - 29:12
    The message about Ajahar was that she had
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    terrible evil spirits
    that needed to be driven out.
  • 29:15 - 29:17
    There was a time in the disciples
  • 29:17 - 29:21
    meetings, he said that
    people could beat her.
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    Anyone in the female
    dormitory could just hit her.
  • 29:24 - 29:29
    And I saw people just walking in,
    just slapping her as they walked past.
  • 29:29 - 29:32
    Ajoke, a little thing She did
    something, you slept at two.
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    There was a particular
    time that I was very tired.
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    I had slept a little bit too much.
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    So he started shouting at her
    to get up, to get up, to get up.
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    And there was another disciple there
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    who basically took it and took it
    to the shower
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    and whipped her with an electrical
    cord and then turned the hot water on.
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    I put my head right on the hot water.
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    I was screaming at the top of my voice.
  • 30:03 - 30:08
    I just let the water run
    in my head for a very long time.
  • 30:09 - 30:11
    We're talking about years and years
  • 30:11 - 30:15
    of abuse, consistent abuse,
    abuse that wasn't ending.
  • 30:15 - 30:19
    He hated her, and he
    punished her for being born.
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    Her existence was probably
    the biggest threat to his reputation.
  • 30:26 - 30:30
    I couldn't even have an identity.
  • 30:30 - 30:33
    That pain cannot be put into words.
  • 30:33 - 30:39
    I felt like, you know what, maybe
    I really don't deserve to be alive.
  • 30:39 - 30:41
    What's her fault?
  • 30:41 - 30:42
    What has that girl done?
  • 30:42 - 30:43
    It pains me.
  • 30:43 - 30:46
    She was still very young that time.
  • 30:46 - 30:49
    Can you imagine how heartless we were?
  • 30:49 - 30:53
    Things like that.
  • 30:53 - 30:54
    It's scary to talk about.
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    It's really shameful.
  • 30:56 - 31:05
    I witnessed that and I didn't do
    anything to help Oh, my goodness.
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    I don't know what she
    thought about the rest of us.
  • 31:12 - 31:18
    The disciples were
    both brainwashed and enabled us.
  • 31:18 - 31:23
    Everybody was just acting
    based on commands like zombies.
  • 31:23 - 31:26
    Nobody was questioning anything.
  • 31:26 - 31:29
    They were beyond fanatics.
  • 31:29 - 31:32
    Where does your conscience come?
  • 31:32 - 31:36
    How far can your conscience go without
  • 31:36 - 31:38
    some form of accountability,
    without some form of truth?
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    How far?
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    I think what's really hard to understand,
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    even for myself,
    is how you can have someone who's sitting
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    here with a sound mind now, narrating
    events that happened that are so
  • 32:01 - 32:04
    atrocious, didn't do
    anything to stop them.
  • 32:04 - 32:09
    Why didn't you, Ray,
    stop what you know what was going on?
  • 32:09 - 32:11
    Why didn't you stop it?
  • 32:11 - 32:12
    It was a culture.
  • 32:12 - 32:13
    We become numb to it.
  • 32:14 - 32:15
    It was normal.
  • 32:15 - 32:18
    You've got people abusing who are abused.
  • 32:18 - 32:20
    He took people who were good, caring,
  • 32:20 - 32:25
    kind, lovely people,
    and he turned them into monsters.
  • 32:27 - 32:30
    There was a time when Dibrusha called me
  • 32:30 - 32:36
    into to his office and asked me,
    Do you think I'm a monster?
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    What Dibliashua said to me about what he
  • 32:42 - 32:47
    was doing to me was that he could see
    into my future, that I was going to lead
  • 32:47 - 32:55
    a life of promiscuity and that he had
    to do what he was doing for my salvation.
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    He was telling me that,
    I'm your father and I'm delivering you.
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    We went into his room and I stood
    there and he said, Off your clothes.
  • 33:07 - 33:12
    So I removed my clothes
    and then he just pointed.
  • 33:12 - 33:16
    So I lie down and then He raped me.
  • 33:16 - 33:19
    He broke my virginity.
  • 33:19 - 33:22
    I was screaming and he was whispering
  • 33:22 - 33:25
    in my ear that you should
    stop acting like a baby.
  • 33:25 - 33:28
    Better shut up.
    You want to make noise?
  • 33:28 - 33:29
    You want people to hear?
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    I felt like There was a beast,
    like this beast.
  • 33:35 - 33:38
    I was 17 years old.
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    I was underage.
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    When he come back from the service,
    he kept forcing himself on me.
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    He assured me God was not upset.
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    The more I made him happy,
    God will be happy with me.
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    He grabbed me and he helped me very close
  • 34:00 - 34:05
    to him, and he literally then pushed
  • 34:05 - 34:14
    me down to the bed and he got on me.
  • 34:15 - 34:20
    I was still so shocked.
  • 34:20 - 34:22
    I was still bleeding.
  • 34:22 - 34:26
    He spit on the floor and he held my hands
  • 34:26 - 34:32
    and he looked straight into my eyes
    and said, I can see you are my child now.
  • 34:32 - 34:36
    Don't betray me.
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    You were absolutely trapped because you
  • 34:39 - 34:44
    were there for salvation, and he was
    the only one who could give you salvation.
  • 34:44 - 34:46
    And I had told myself,
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    no one else will ever watch you,
    and there is no home for you.
  • 34:52 - 34:53
    And I just knew.
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    I just...
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    You just tell yourself, this is my life.
  • 35:00 - 35:04
    I have no alternative.
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    Look, each time you'd be called.
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    Each time, they would say,
    Daddy's calling you.
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    Hey, man.
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    The bottom line is you'd have to go there.
  • 35:24 - 35:30
    You would have to just put your
    feelings aside and just go there.
  • 35:30 - 35:36
    Look at the screen of your
    television right now.
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    Somebody who is asked me
    to pregnant her this guy.
  • 35:41 - 35:44
    The boy that was helping me, he raped him.
  • 35:44 - 35:45
    And I'm reporting to you.
    Rape.
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    Nobody rape her.
    Nobody raped her.
  • 35:47 - 35:49
    Okay, she said, Tempt her.
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    That spirit of tempting.
  • 35:50 - 35:52
    You see, rape.
  • 35:52 - 35:54
    You hear her say she's fled.
  • 35:54 - 35:57
    So let's cast the spirit out of her.
  • 35:57 - 35:58
    Okay?
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    You He was a sexual predator.
  • 36:02 - 36:06
    He was a ritualist.
  • 36:06 - 36:09
    Tb Joshua asked me to find virgins
  • 36:09 - 36:15
    for him, to bring young
    girls into disciple fold.
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    In the midnight,
  • 36:18 - 36:26
    this person will be called into his
    bedroom so that he could disvirgin them.
  • 36:26 - 36:29
    When those girls come out,
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    he usually He take
    all the bedsheets and everything.
  • 36:33 - 36:38
    He pack them and take them
    to the prayer mountain.
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    It's very important for me
    to speak to the world.
  • 36:47 - 36:52
    I am using it as a platform of confession.
  • 36:52 - 36:59
    What I was doing then was against God.
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    I remember one day,
    TB Joshua, he called for me.
  • 37:06 - 37:08
    He allowed me on the gold.
  • 37:09 - 37:11
    We went so far.
  • 37:11 - 37:16
    There was a prayer I
    had never seen before.
  • 37:17 - 37:25
    So in that room, it's our duty to make
    sure that we own a certain instance there.
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    If he's going to enter there,
    that place must be filled with smoke.
  • 37:30 - 37:34
    We do normally have our
    meetings in the night.
  • 37:34 - 37:41
    He trusts me
    with the assignment he's giving me.
  • 37:41 - 37:46
    It's just candles everywhere, pictures,
  • 37:48 - 37:53
    All the disciples' pictures,
    we pour it on the floor.
  • 37:53 - 37:55
    His own picture is not there.
  • 37:55 - 37:58
    His wife's picture is not there.
  • 37:58 - 37:59
    It's only the disciples.
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    He wear a red garment, plain red.
  • 38:05 - 38:13
    The garment is long down to his ankle,
    and he would hold a sword in his hand.
  • 38:13 - 38:21
    Those pictures, he will place
    the sword directly on the face.
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    It will be pierced through
    and it will be pinned down there.
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    They are in bondage,
    spiritually and physically.
  • 38:31 - 38:34
    This is what you have done to people.
  • 38:41 - 38:47
    You just move around this prayer room,
    and you move in an anticlockwise way.
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    Holding this sword, going around.
    Oh, Lord, forgive us.
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    Oh, Lord, forgive us.
    Oh, Lord, forgive us.
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    Have mercy on us.
  • 38:54 - 38:56
    Have mercy on us.
  • 38:56 - 39:00
    I've never seen this thing before.
  • 39:00 - 39:05
    Everything about his prayer
    room is photos, people's photos.
  • 39:05 - 39:10
    And I can tell you,
    they are mostly ladies.
  • 39:10 - 39:15
    What he did was all intentional.
  • 39:15 - 39:21
    He was doing all those sexual activities
    for something spiritual.
  • 39:21 - 39:25
    Satan knows everything
    that people cannot know.
  • 39:25 - 39:29
    Tb Joshua is not any man of God.
  • 39:29 - 39:31
    He's a man of evil.
  • 39:37 - 39:46
    There was a system in there
    that he used to abuse these women.
  • 39:46 - 39:50
    He's the one that crafted
    the building of his apartment.
  • 39:50 - 39:51
    He designed it.
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    The whole building was just
    designed to keep secret.
  • 39:55 - 40:02
    Multiple doors,
    multiple entrance trees and exits.
  • 40:02 - 40:06
    The staircase you can use to get
    to his five story was like four.
  • 40:06 - 40:11
    I call a lady, probably wants to see you.
  • 40:11 - 40:16
    He will tell you the specific
    staircase that this person should come.
  • 40:16 - 40:21
    He would always tell you which entrance
    to take, which door to get into.
  • 40:21 - 40:27
    You can ask the ladies to come through
    any of the door so people don't see them.
  • 40:29 - 40:33
    He would always ask you, When you come,
    did anybody see you?
  • 40:33 - 40:35
    You'd be like, No, sir.
  • 40:35 - 40:37
    Then you would rape me again.
  • 40:37 - 40:44
    It was a process, a very nasty cycle.
  • 40:44 - 40:48
    We couldn't see it right under our nose.
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    He designed a system
    for deceiving all of us disciples.
  • 40:55 - 40:57
    A lot of women were
    being abused by this man.
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    I had no idea.
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    I thought I I was the only one.
  • 41:01 - 41:06
    I didn't know that that thing
    had happened to anybody else.
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    They were all in the same system.
  • 41:11 - 41:14
    This is a place, a system,
    where you have nobody to talk to.
  • 41:14 - 41:17
    And there was nothing I could do.
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    Where the five story builders are,
    they are the ones covering him.
  • 41:21 - 41:24
    These are children of 16, 17 years.
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    He kept all of us in slavery.
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    Total, absolute slavery.
  • 41:30 - 41:37
    Almost every day,
    TB Joshua have girls in his room.
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    If I'm going to count in a week, seeing
    these things four to five times in a week.
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    Every week?
    Yes, every week.
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    Rape became a normal terrifying thing
    that you would do.
  • 41:56 - 42:00
    It's like you are
    an animal being slaughtered.
  • 42:01 - 42:06
    He would be calling girls in,
    one after the other.
  • 42:08 - 42:11
    I stayed there almost 14 years.
  • 42:11 - 42:13
    There were been thousands.
    Watch your screen.
  • 42:15 - 42:17
    Watch your screen.
  • 42:17 - 42:25
    You are going to deliver a baby boy
    in the 90 name of Chesa time.
  • 42:25 - 42:34
    We used to film women giving birth, life.
  • 42:34 - 42:40
    He's somebody who used to paint
    a picture that he loves children.
  • 42:40 - 42:48
    But behind the closed doors,
    It's a nightmare.
  • 42:48 - 42:50
    It's a nightmare.
  • 42:51 - 42:55
    I had three abortions at the synagogue.
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    And from speaking to other women,
    I'm You're not the only one.
  • 43:06 - 43:12
    If any of us got pregnant, he said,
    You cannot betray the men of God.
  • 43:12 - 43:14
    We have to do something about it.
  • 43:15 - 43:19
    We meant that he rapes,
    he forces them into abortion.
  • 43:19 - 43:25
    I never had a choice whether I
    could keep a potential child or not.
  • 43:25 - 43:29
    I felt like I didn't own my body.
  • 43:29 - 43:31
    You know it, you You skip your first
  • 43:31 - 43:36
    period, you skip your second period,
    and you have to talk.
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    It would all done in secret.
  • 43:39 - 43:45
    You'd be taken by one of these
    elder moms to this clinic of his.
  • 43:46 - 43:49
    I witnessed a lot of abortions.
  • 43:49 - 43:52
    Lots of abortions.
  • 43:53 - 43:58
    It can't be counted.
  • 43:58 - 44:01
    They started doing it
    inside the synagogue.
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    There's a place they
    call Medical Department.
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    We went out through the backdoor office.
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    We went downstairs.
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    There's an area that visitors
    would never see.
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    You're given a concortion to drink,
    you get sick,
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    or they put these metal pieces in your
    vagina and they extract whatever,
  • 44:27 - 44:32
    and you don't know whether they're pulling
    out your womb or something's going wrong.
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    She was squeezing my stomach and I
    had to push all those things.
  • 44:39 - 44:43
    She was saying, Out, out, out.
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    Sometimes Things go wrong.
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    One of them almost died
    inside the synagogue.
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    These were backdoor medical treatments
    that I, we were going through.
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    It could have killed us.
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    I saw how they suffered.
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    I saw how they suffered.
  • 45:17 - 45:22
    There were times I would
    go to the penthouse.
  • 45:22 - 45:25
    I would be looking over to the main road.
  • 45:25 - 45:27
    I would be crying.
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    I was crying.
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    I was crying for them.
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    Sometimes you'd find yourself singing
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    on stage at church, and people will think
    you're crying because
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    the Holy spirit is there,
    but in actual fact, you're dead inside.
  • 45:54 - 45:58
    The first time I met him,
    it looked helpful.
  • 45:58 - 46:00
    It looked loving.
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    Not knowing that behind that
    was a saddest, a psychopath.
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    And I wanted to be connected to God.
  • 46:10 - 46:12
    That's why I stayed there.
  • 46:12 - 46:17
    That's why I keep trying my very best.
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    The God I was introduced to is evil.
  • 46:27 - 46:32
    He's diabolic because this is
    the same God that would sleep with us.
  • 46:32 - 46:34
    This is the same God
    that would beat us up.
  • 46:34 - 46:37
    This is the same God
    that would manipulate us.
  • 46:37 - 46:43
    You have no idea of what I went through.
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    Every
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    time I was beating up, every time I
    was humiliated,
  • 47:15 - 47:21
    it just reminded me that there was
    something wrong with that sister.
  • 47:21 - 47:24
    I saw a female type was
    going off to his room.
  • 47:24 - 47:26
    They were away.
    They were going away for hours.
  • 47:26 - 47:29
    I was hearing things,
    Oh, this happened to me.
  • 47:29 - 47:34
    Oh, he tried sleeping Too
    many people were saying the same thing.
  • 47:34 - 47:38
    Accounts, first time of people
    who had experienced sexual abuse.
  • 47:39 - 47:48
    She got to know who he was,
    and she could not manage it quietly.
  • 47:48 - 47:51
    She escalited it.
  • 47:51 - 47:55
    I couldn't take care anymore.
  • 47:55 - 48:00
    I walked directly into his
    office and I went off.
  • 48:00 - 48:05
    I shouted at the top of my voice,
    Why are you doing all of this?
  • 48:05 - 48:06
    Why are you hurting all of these women?
  • 48:07 - 48:08
    You're using this woman.
  • 48:08 - 48:10
    You're sleeping with this woman.
  • 48:10 - 48:14
    I had lost every out of fear for this man.
  • 48:14 - 48:16
    He was shocked.
  • 48:16 - 48:18
    He was beyond shocked,
    and he couldn't hide it.
  • 48:18 - 48:22
    He tried to stare me down.
    Why?
  • 48:22 - 48:24
    I was looking at his eyes.
  • 48:24 - 48:29
    He got scared up, claiming
    innocence to the disciples.
  • 48:29 - 48:34
    When he's angry, it's like he can kill.
  • 48:34 - 48:37
    He was the first person
    that started hitting, hitting her.
  • 48:38 - 48:40
    Then other people joined.
  • 48:40 - 48:44
    He was like, Can you imagine
    what she was saying about me?
  • 48:44 - 48:48
    Even as much as they were hitting her,
  • 48:48 - 48:52
    beating her, she was still saying
    the same thing she was saying.
  • 48:52 - 48:55
    If you are having an affair
    with all these women here.
  • 48:55 - 48:59
    She said it plainly to him.
  • 48:59 - 49:01
    The disciples dragged
    me out to the office.
  • 49:01 - 49:07
    I was put in a room totally isolated
    from the rest of the church.
  • 49:07 - 49:10
    He would lock up in a room for months.
  • 49:10 - 49:14
    I'm not telling you a week, so months.
  • 49:15 - 49:19
    I I wonder how I lived through that time
  • 49:19 - 49:23
    because they were hitting
    me with belts, chains.
  • 49:23 - 49:27
    I couldn't even
    stand up for days after this meeting.
  • 49:27 - 49:29
    I couldn't take a shower.
  • 49:30 - 49:34
    He was trying so hard to stop
    people from listening to me.
  • 49:34 - 49:40
    He just felt threatened by the fact
    that I knew the things that was happening.
  • 49:40 - 49:48
    Ajoke was bold enough to confront him
  • 49:49 - 49:52
    in front of his disciples.
  • 49:52 - 49:54
    I see her as a hero.
  • 49:54 - 49:59
    To look at him and tell him who he is.
  • 49:59 - 50:01
    She was brave.
  • 50:03 - 50:07
    This child could see what we couldn't see
  • 50:07 - 50:15
    and wouldn't yield to the lies
    and was punished for it.
  • 50:15 - 50:21
    He created an image of an untouchable
    being, of a perfect being.
  • 50:21 - 50:24
    But I was looking through those things.
  • 50:24 - 50:26
    I was seeing a man that was very
  • 50:26 - 50:29
    vulnerable, that was
    very afraid of the truth.
  • 50:29 - 50:34
    He
    was very afraid that someone would speak
  • 50:34 - 50:41
    up, could turn around and make him
    answer to those things that he had done.
  • 50:42 - 50:48
    Everything was a cake of gunpowder,
    and it could have gone off in one moment.
  • 50:53 - 50:55
    The families were lied, too.
  • 50:55 - 50:58
    He bought the whole system.
  • 50:58 - 51:04
    How do you stand up to a man who has
    got a list of presidents in his pocket?
  • 51:04 - 51:09
    Just continue to watch Emmanuel TV.
  • 51:09 - 51:11
    Tv Joshua preaches forgiveness.
  • 51:11 - 51:13
    He doesn't forgive.
  • 51:13 - 51:16
    They shot at the back of the record, What?
  • 51:17 - 51:19
    He sent them to kill me.
  • 51:19 - 51:22
    He tried to kill me.
  • 51:22 - 51:27
    Everywhere, I turned to post like war.
Title:
DISCIPLES: The Cult of TB Joshua, Ep 2 - Unmasking Our Father - BBC Africa Eye documentary
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Duration:
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