Emmanuel Thomas l Wednesday, June 07, 2017
IKEJA, Lagos, Nigeria – Former Minister of Aviation, Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode has called for a total probe of the circumstances surrounding the collapse of three story church auditorium in Pastor T.B Joshua’s Synagogue of All Nations, SCOAN.
Not less than 116 people, mainly South Africans died when the church auditorium collapsed in September 12, 2014, while 16 others were rescued.
Trustees of the church and some engineers are currently on trial for the incident, even when the church had consistently maintained that the helicopter that hovered round circumference of the building caused the building to implode.
Writing on his website, Femi Fani-Kayode better known as FFK in the social media alleged that fith columnist in the Department of State Services, DSS carried out the plot with assistant of foreigners without the knowledge of head of the agency, Mr. Eta Ekpeyong, a stunch loyalist of former president, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan.
According to him, the target was to destabilise Jonathan and take out T.B Joshua whom they believe knows too much.
“It was from a few of those that share this kind, generous and charitable disposition that I was given the true picture of things and the relevant information about what really happened to Prophet T.B. Joshua’s church and how and why it was brought down.
“I will not mention their names but I will tell their story. And that story is as follows.
“They told me why the operation was carried out, how those involved covered it up and how they attempted to hit TB Joshua the second time but failed.
“They told me that it was the same group of operatives that were behind the fatal “crash” of General Patrick Azazi’s (the former National Security Advisor) helicopter and how Governor Patrick Yakowa (the Governor of Kaduna state) was purposely lured on that helicopter in order for them to literally “kill two birds with one stone”.
“They told me how the operation was conducted by rogue elements in the intelligence agencies without the knowledge of Mr. Eta Ekpeyong, the head of the Department of State Security (DSS) at the time who was totally loyal to Jonathan but with the knowledge and support of a handful of disloyal and ruthless senior operatives from other arms of the intelligence agencies who provided the logistics, hardware, man-power and funding for the operation.
“They told me that there was a foreign component to the whole affair which I will touch on in part 3 of this essay.
“They told me that there was a religious dimension to the whole affair and about how a group of fifth columists within the security agencies in Jonathan’s government had sworn that they would destabilise his government and either kill him or stop him from coming back in 2015 and how they assisted the then opposition by providing them with sensitive and often false information to use against the government.
“Their view was that the country must not be ruled by a Southerner or a Christian and that Jonathan must be stopped at all costs.
“T.B. Joshua’s crime was that he knew too much and that he was secrety exposing their plans to those that cared for Jonathan. He needed to be discredited, stopped, “kept busy”, rubbished or permanently silenced”, he said.
He said the entire horrendous episode and the terrible tragedy that occured in T.B. Joshua’s church must be revisited and properly investigated by the security agencies with a view to bringing the real perpetrators, and not their victims and targets, to justice.
“And that secondly the Nigerian people would do well to question ANYTHING and EVERYTHING that their government (and I mean ALL governments and not just the Buhari administration) tells them about such events or that they read, watch or listen to in what President Donald Trump so eloquently describes as the “mainstream media” (MSM)”,,he said.
