Investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas is urging the public to approach the controversies surrounding the late T.B. Joshua from a human rights perspective rather than solely as a religious matter.
His comments follow the release of a BBC documentary revealing alleged abuses within the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN), led by the late Prophet TB Joshua.
The documentary brings to light instances of sexual abuse, rape allegations, and manipulations of miracles within the SCOAN. Anas emphasized in an interview with Arise News that the primary focus should be on the documented cases of abuse rather than religion.
“I think that the major takeaway from this documentary is the level of abuse we’ve all seen in the film. And I don’t want us to look at this with the lenses of religion;
It is a pure human rights abuse story that all of us as journalists have been doing and what you have is the situation where girls have been raped, sexually abused and manipulations of miracles and others. its about time we say no to these things, we stand firm and say it as it is to let people know what the real story is,” he said.
“I don’t think this is an attack on the church; I have emphasised that we are not here to talk about religion; we are here to talk about human rights abuses. We have done stories on human rights abuses, and this is not any different from the stories we do. I think that if there is something wrong, we should have the courage as journalists to be able to tell it as it is.
“The death of a person does not mean that the issue is dead. There are equally important and many poor people who have suffered as a result of these atrocities.
“We talk about Hitler today; he is dead but we still talk about the atrocities and the human rights abuses he meted out to people,” he added.
