The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has invited 20 Disciples of late Prophet T. B. Joshua, over the alleged looting and diversion of funds belonging to the Synagogue Church of All Nations, SCOAN, .
It was gathered that the anti-graft Agency invited the Disciples, who included Nigerian and Foreign Prophets and Prophetesses of the Church.
A letter released by the Commission has directed the Church to release the Disciples for an interview, through the Special Investigation Team, SIT.
The Commander of the EFCC in Lagos State, Ahmed Ghali, in the letter, said that the Disciples are being questioned for allegedly syphoning the funds, and breaking into the Church’s vault.
The Disciples reportedly invited by the Commission include: Obasa Damilola Tinuola, Obasa Folake, Mosun Adeloju, Yakubu Abeni, Omoitoh Omoye, Adebola Olamide Morenike, Bousso Racine, Eugune Rademeyer, Cindy Elizabeth Widjaja, Fanny Elma Alfred, Angela Marie Brandt, Graham Nadine, Tonge Christopher, Catherine Ann Farr, Enrique Miguel, Olayinka Deborah Egbejobi, Mari-Anne Uchechi Ibe, David Omojevbe Joseph, Tonge Ruth, Polo Sandoval Allison.
A source who spoke on the incident, disclosed that the Disciples who were close to the late Prophet, allegedly emptied a vault located in the Church, and also put up his private aircraft for sale.
The source said: “They have carried out huge fraud that has made many of them multi-millionaires since Baba’s death. Many of them are on the list of EFCC. They are up to 20. They seized the Church immediately after the Prophet died in June, and did not want his wife, Mrs. Evelyn Joshua, to be part of the Church. They have made themselves Overseers. They have established a Governing Council, with some living in the Prayer Mountains. They went to the vault at night, and used Ghana-Must-Go bags to loot money. They also went to open the Emmanuel Global Network, where they asked International Partners to donate, without the knowledge of Evelyn.”
The source added that the contact information on 4 of late T. B. Joshua’s mobile phones were wiped off weeks after his death.
“T. B. Joshua’s phones were seized by some Disciples for some time, and when Mama was asking for his phones, and it became an issue, they returned the phones to Evelyn, and wiped out both the memory and contacts in the phone. They had worked with Baba over the years, and they are Prophet and Prophetess, and people who travelled a lot with Baba before his death. Some of them are 50 years of age, and some were asked to go in the past.”