TB Joshua
Thousands of Ghanaians, in their quest to work out their own salvation or to find solutions to their hardship in life, yesterday rushed to meet Prophet Temitope Balogun (TB) Joshua, founder and General Overseer of the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN) on the Spintex Road in Accra.
It was a chaotic situation on the Spintex Road as people were stuck in traffic for hours.
T.B. Joshua, who officially landed in Ghana in the early hours of Tuesday, is in the country to hold a ‘deliverance session’ for his Ghanaian followers.
The man has gained considerable followership through his tele-evangelism, where miracles are beamed live to homes.
The Nigerian prophet was locked up in a secret room all day on Tuesday but allowed his ‘three wise men’ to attend to the spiritual needs of Ghanaians, who thronged there.
“The man of God has been in a room all day. He has assigned his three wise men to handle Tuesday’s session but he will handle Wednesday’s session,” an usher of the Synagogue told DAILY GUIDE.
Although the service was billed to start at 7:00am, people started arriving as early as 2:00am. They were made to queue for several hours just to grab a seat as they awaited the miraculous touch from the ‘wise men’.
The Spintex Road was choked with both human and vehicular traffic from 2:00am to about 9:00pm Monday night, because people from Benin, Nigeria, Togo as well had trooped there to meet T.B. Joshua, who has his headquarters at Ikotun Egbe, a suburb of Lagos.
The spill over was witnessed by residents and people, who used the Spintex Road early yesterday morning.
They were left stranded and unable to move in or out of the area due to the heavy traffic.
Price Hikes
People who traded in various merchandise took advantage of the heavy human presence to increase the prices of some products outrageously.
Canned Malt, which sells on a normal day for GH¢2.50, was sold at the Synagogue for GH¢5. People, who could not be accommodated on the church premises or in tents mounted outside, used ‘Neem’ tree branches to shield themselves from the scorching sun. The ‘Neem’ branches were sold at GH¢1 by some unscrupulous persons.
Media Abuse
Heavy security presence at the Spintex branch made it very difficult for journalists who were there to report.
They could not film or take pictures of the ‘deliverance session’.
DAILY GUIDE reporter was ordered by security personnel of the church to delete pictures of the ‘wise men’ and the heavy crowd present because he was not accredited by the church to do so.
A reporter from Multimedia, together with his cameraman, was detained for close to two hours for filming the chaotic scene at the church premises.
Another group of journalists from NET2 Television were also detained for more than six hours for similar ‘offence’.
It is still unclear why the media were prevented from discharging their professional duties at a deliverance church service which was held publicly, and whether the church had Police permit to hold such large gathering on a busy working day.
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