In the spirit of the season, Pastor Temitope Balogun Joshua, founder of the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN), has donated 30,000 bags of rice to police officers serving in the Lagos State Police Command.
Our correspondent, who was at the command headquarters in Ikeja on Monday, observed that some officers assigned the duty of distributing the half bag of rice to their colleague,s were busy at their duty post.
Some of the police officers at the command, who spoke off record with Daily Independent, expressed gratitude to Pastor Joshua for always donating rice and other food items every year to the estimated 27,000 officers in Lagos.
However, further observations showed that some officers in Lagos rejected the TB Joshua bags of rice with the inscriptions: “Emmanuel TV” bodily printed on it.
It was observed that police patrol vehicles from virtually all the 98 police divisions in Lagos lined up at the command to load their share of the bags of rice for their officers.
For instance, a police patrol vehicle from the command transport unit at Ikeja, fully loaded with bags of rice was seen driving out of the main gate of the command.
Daily Independent recalls that over the years, it has always been the tradition of the SCOAN founder, who is presently enmeshed in a legal tango over the collapsed building at his church, located at Ikotun in Lagos, to donate food items to security agencies in Lagos.
The church collapsed in mysterious circumstance in September this year, where some 160 persons, mostly from South Africa, died.
Ever since then, the man from the Synagogue Church has been involving a running legal battle with all the stakeholders involved in the issues of collapsed buildings within and outside Lagos on the remote and immediate causes of the collapse.
