T.B Joshua and his Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN) have finally come out to christen the phenomena by which a hovering aircraft brings down a church building: ‘controlled demolition’.

A building on the SCOAN premises in Nigeria collapsed leading to the death of over one hundred people. Since then the church has been in a heightened mode of damage control, and it looks like they are intent on convincing the world of their side of the story.

If T.B Joshua and his church are to be believed, the assessment of professionals that the addition of new stories without strengthening the foundation as the cause of the collapse is wrong and what exactly happened is that a strange aircraft hovering around the building caused the collapse, in an apparent attempt on the life of the prophet.

After weeks of hearing about it the cause has been given a tag, with the church calling it a ‘controlled demolition’.

Kem Emekeayi, who works with Emmanuel TV, told a Nigerian TV station what a controlled demolition was, according to the Vanguard.

“Controlled demolition, is a new technology that you can isolate a building in an area, bring it down, without any other surrounding building being affected”

In a long dialogue that portrayed the entire incident as an assassination attempt, Mr Emekeayi said the aircraft was first seen at a prayer mountain where T.B Joshua was known to pray every morning, then later on at the site of the collapse moments before the incident.

The church says it’s all captured on their CCTV cameras, and has even posted a video of controlled demolition all across the world to buttress their point.

“Because from the clips captured by all the CCTV cameras, it has become obvious that this building never collapsed on its own. This is what we can call a controlled demolition. When this building went down, other surrounding buildings never had any crack, but just this one, and that is why we said it is a controlled demolition”

So SCOAN continue to insist they are not at fault for what happened, and even called for a “holistic inquiry from government, so that the world will know what happened.”

Does this ‘controlled demolition’ stuff sound feasible? Is T.B Joshua ministries really innocent of any wrongdoing in this entire saga? They sure are trying very hard to convince the world of it, I’m just not sure any of it really adds up.