According to the report, the BBC claimed to have unearthed a network of deceptive practices purportedly utilised by the late Nigerian televangelist to orchestrate miracles…..CONTINUE READING....KINDLY READ THE FULL STORY HERE▶

The report outlined six methods allegedly employed by the deceased church leader in the fabrication of miracles.

Leveraging insights from over 25 individuals spanning different countries, the investigation exposed a range of alleged deceptive tactics practiced within the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN).

Published on the BBC Eye website on Sunday, the investigation accuses the late TB Joshua, who passed away at the age of 57 in 2021, of being a fraud.

The report meticulously outlines six methods through which Joshua is alleged to have deceived worshippers, attributing these revelations to individuals who had worked closely with the late church leader.

In 2004, Nigeria’s broadcasting regulatory authority imposed a ban on the live airing of pastors’ purported miracles on terrestrial TV. In response to this restriction, TB Joshua launched Emmanuel TV on satellite and subsequently expanded its reach to an online audience.

His global television and social media network emerged as one of the most prosperous Christian platforms worldwide, reaching millions of viewers in Europe, the Americas, South East Asia, and Africa. Notably, his YouTube channel amassed hundreds of millions of views, contributing to the widespread impact of his ministry.

Below are the six ways listed by the BBC Africa Eye in its report:

“1: The emergency department: An exclusive section of the church, named the “emergency department”, was responsible for making the so-called miracles look real.

“This is where the sick, who came to be healed, would be screened, and where the team would decide who should be filmed and prayed for by Joshua.

“Agomoh Paul, who supervised the department for 10 years – receiving direct instructions from Joshua, told the BBC that the team was “trained by medical doctors”.

“He is a former disciple – one of an elite group of dedicated followers who lived with the pastor inside the Scoan compound.

“Any cancerous situation, they send them away. Then, people who had normal open wounds that can heal, they bring them in, to present as cancer,” he says.

“Only a select group of trusted disciples were allowed to work in the emergency department. They would write placards for each follower to hold, detailing their made-up or exaggerated ailments. When it was time to meet Joshua, they would stand in line in front of the cameras and be “healed”.

“It was a complicated system. Not all disciples knew what was happening. It was a secret,” Mr Paul says.

“2: Drugs: Every foreign visitor who came to the church to be healed had to fill out a medical report detailing their illness and the medication they were currently prescribed.

“They would be told to stop taking them, but Joshua would order pharmacists to procure the same medicine.

“Without their knowledge, they would “put those drugs in their fruit drinks,” explains Mr Paul, who said people would be urged to drink the cocktail that had been blessed by Joshua.

“This meant while visitors were residing at SCOAN, they would not become unwell and would believe in the divine healing powers of their pastor.

“In the 1990s, when HIV/AIDs had reached epidemic levels across parts of sub-Saharan Africa, Joshua told visitors to stop taking their antiretroviral medication when they returned home.

“I know people died because they didn’t take their medicine, and it’s difficult to live with that,” admits a former disciple, who asked not to be named.

“Tash Ford, now 49, who went to Lagos from the South African city of Johannesburg in 2001 in the hope of having her failing kidney healed, was told to stop taking her drugs.

“It was the promise that… you could supernaturally receive a new kidney,” she told the BBC.

“At the time, she had already had two kidney transplants. Ms Ford says the disciples said: “Stop taking your medication and just believe.”

‘She did believe she had been healed. But when she got home, after four weeks of not taking her medicine, she went into renal failure and was admitted to hospital.

“The medics initially managed to save her kidney, but eventually, it stopped working, and she had to have kidney dialysis for more than six years before having a third transplant in 2011.

“3: Brainwashing: Ms Ford says when she was at Scoan, she never had any doubts: “I honestly thought we were seeing miracles. I literally couldn’t believe what I was seeing. I saw someone walk out of a wheelchair.”