by Thinus Ferreira
A shocking investigation by BBC News in Africa is revealing that the late televangelist T.B. Joshua whose Emmanuel TV channel is shutting down on 17 January on pay-TV, over a period of decades raped, assaulted, tortured, whipped and chained worshippers in a secret compound in Lagos, Nigeria where he also ordered forced abortions.
BBC Africa's Africa Eye investigative unit did a 2-year investigation unearthing the shocking and numerous atrocities committed by the televangelist of the Synagogue Church of All Nations.
The Synagogue Church of All Nations didn't respond to the allegations unearthed by BBC News' Africa Eye of T.B. Joshua who died in 2021.
The BBC's investigation found that T.B. Joshua carried out physical violence and torture - including child abuse and people who were whipped and chained - abuse corroborated by dozens of eyewitness accounts.
Multiple women on the record said they were brutally raped by T.B. Joshua - some for years in his secret compound in Lagos, Nigeria. Multiple women say they were forced to undergo abortions inside the church, with one woman saying she was forced into 5 abortions.
One woman from Namibia was 17 when T.B. Joshua raped her the first time and she subsequently had 5 abortions.
Multiple witnesses have come forward to explain how T.B. Joshua did hoax "miracle healings" which were faked for the broadcasts on Emmanuel TV to viewers watching across the world.
