Prophet TB Joshua mystery

THE number of Zimbabweans who died or were injured in the collapse of a guest house belonging to Nigerian self-styled prophet Temitope Balogun "TB" Joshua's Synagogue Church of All Nations (Scoan) remains unknown.

So far two Zimbabweans - a woman from Bulawayo and a top MDC-T official from Mashonaland West — were confirmed to have died in the Lagos disaster of September 12.

The country's Foreign Affairs ministry and the Nigerian embassy in Harare have both not issued statements on the number of Zimbabweans who could have travelled to Lagos that week have been fruitless.

The matter has been complicated by revelations by a group that co-ordinates visits to Scoan from Zimbabwe that it only took 24 people to Lagos and all of them are back home safely.

This would suggest that some people travelled as individuals and cannot easily be accounted for.

However, Desire Masuku of the Bulawayo-based Friends of Emmanuel TV and Scoan has claimed that all Zimbabweans they took to Nigeria on the fateful week were back home safe.