The Disciples: 5. The maze
World of Secrets
BBC
4.7 • 765 Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Anneka confronts TB Joshua. What really happened in his fifth-floor apartment at the top of the Lagos church compound? And can she escape his clutches? Anneka flees home to England but her ordeal isn’t over. TB Joshua sends one of his most trusted disciples to bring her back. “I knew she’d been sent to take me,” Anneka says.
Hosts Charlie Northcott and Yemisi Adegoke unravel a story of miracles, faith and manipulation, carried out by one of the most powerful religious figures of the century.
Please note, this season of World of Secrets contains graphic descriptions of sexual and physical violence, including sexual assault, rape and the language associated with it. This episode includes descriptions of forced abortions.
If you've been affected by any of the issues in this series, please contact support organisations in your own country. For a list of organisations in the UK that can provide support for survivors of sexual abuse, go to bbc.co.uk/actionline
Presenters: Charlie Northcott and Yemisi Adegoke Series Producer: Rob Byrne Series Editor: Philip Sellars Executive Producer: Georgia Catt Commissioning Editor: Jon Manel
This podcast is made in collaboration with BBC Eye Investigations, with original investigation by Charlie Northcott and Helen Spooner.
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| 0:38.6 | Before we start some episodes in this series of World of Secrets contain graphic descriptions of sexual and physical violence |
| 0:46.5 | including sexual assault, rape and the language associated with it. |
| 0:50.7 | This episode also includes graphic descriptions of forced abortions. |
| 0:57.0 | I was not going to let him speak to me. I was going to say him speak to me I was going to say can you talk are you on your own |
| 1:07.8 | Maybe he might say yes |
| 1:11.2 | After two and a half years, Anaka has just left T.B. Joshua's church. |
| 1:16.0 | She's back home in England, trying to piece her life back together. |
| 1:20.0 | I will then have a speech I was going to say and I will put the phone down. |
| 1:26.0 | Hello? |
| 1:28.0 | I said, Daddy are you alone? |
| 1:30.0 | And I said, I believe the relationship I have with you is wrong, and I'm never coming back. |
| 1:37.0 | And for those few seconds before I put the phone down, I heard him shouting for people and panicked. |
| 1:47.0 | I could tell he was scared because I confronted him and said, it's not right what you're doing to me. |
| 1:53.8 | And I put the phone down. |
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