The building collapse of the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN) on September 12 earlier this year led to the dead of scores of people, most of them South Africans.

In the aftermath, T.B Joshua and his people took the opportunity to come out and say anything they could think of regarding what must have happened; ranging from demonic attack targeted at the prophet, mysterious UFO’s, and the coup de grace: controlled demolition.

For earthly institutions like Government, they can only deal with physical phenomena. Thus the Lagos state government set up an inquest into the entire event considering there were too many questions to be ignored. After some monitoring of the Nigerian media’s coverage of the inquest, it looks like things are slowly unravelling for T.B Joshua and SCOAN.

First is the complete discrediting of the idea of a controlled blast, explosion or demolition of any kind. Expert witnesses on the subject emphatically denied the possibility of that as the probable cause of the collapse. The Head of Lagos State Emergency Management Agency-Femi Oke-Osayintolu (MD), also said the evidence does not point to that.

“On observation, bodies were not mutilated. They were not disjointed… the bodies were not burned”

Other expert witnesses have noted that the new guesthouse, site of the crash, did not have planning permission. Other structures on the site, including the main church auditorium itself, have been found to be structurally defective.

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