4 killed, 15 injured at TB Joshua’s Church Stampede For ‘Anointing Oil’

  Four people died Sunday following a stampede

during a Church service to distribute “Special

Anointing Oil” at the Synagogue Church of All

Nations owned by Nigeria’s Prophet TB Joshua,

spokesman of the Greater Accra Regional Police

Command, DSP Freeman Tetteh has confirmed,

Sunday nation reports.

DSP Tetteh said 15 others were injured and had been

sent to hospital for treatment. He said the dead were

made up of three female and a male but could not

give their ages.

Following the death of the four persons, “the Police

advised the Church leadership to stop the

distribution of the anointing oil”. he said.

Early this month, Prophet Joshua and his Church

came under attack after security details working for

him, illegally detained four journalists who had gone

to cover a crusade he had organised in Accra.

Enraged by the actions of the security details, the

Ghana Journalists Association asked the Police, to

investigate the circumstances that led to the arrest of

the journalists from the Multimedia Group and Net 2

Television who said were only doing their jobs when

they were illegally picked up.

Prophet Joshua has always courted controversy in

West Africa with his weekly televised Sunday

services at which he holds deliverance sessions to

exorcise members of his congregation.

Some leaders of the orthodox Churches have

condemned his mode of worship, whilst others have

questioned his background as a Christian.

He has however, dismissed all these as mere

unfounded allegations based on jealousy by those

who feel threatened by what he does.

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