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- Mr Alphonus Odioma, the owner of a 240-room facility in the area, said that his dream of making a fortune through the provision of guest rooms and its sundry services to pilgrims to SCOAN had diminished.
Two hoteliers and guest house operators around the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN) at Ikotun-Egbe in Alimosho Local Government of Lagos State have decried low patronage since the demise of the founder of the church, Prophet Temitope Joshua, known as TB Joshua, on June 5.
The owners of the various lodging facilities said on Sunday that the demise of the SCOAN pastor had subjected them to anxiety.
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Mr Alphonus Odioma, the owner of a 240-room facility in the area, said that his dream of making a fortune through the provision of guest rooms and its sundry services to pilgrims to SCOAN had diminished.
Odioma said that for close to a month now his hotel that used to be very busy with checking in and exit of lodgers had become a ghost town.
According to Odioma, “I began business in the area in 2007, with a little residential apartment that I acquired but with the upsurge of lodging demands, I had to get a bigger place.
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“Like my other colleagues, I hired more personnel alongside constant innovation of services and facilities to retain and attract more patronage especially from foreigners that were coming to worship at SCOAN.
“We are now running at a deficit as we are experiencing a lull in business. Before now, the revenue we usually realised in a week was enough to cater for a month’s overhead.
“Right now, we are experiencing a lull in our businesses without knowing when it will end,” he said.
He said that he would be left with no other option than to retrench some of his workers if there is no end in sight to the non-patronage.
He added that though the spouse of the founder had been appointed to take over as the leader of the church, it was not yet known if she would be able to perform in the deliverance ministry like the late founder.
He said that it was the deliverance variant of the gospel that was attracting people from all over the world to the place “that sustained our businesses all those years”.
Also, Chief Mathew Ohajiri, another hotelier, said that his facility and business were hanging in the balance as the place had been empty since the demise of Prophet TB Joshua.
He said that it was the church activities in the synagogue that were driving the business with lodgers scrambling for space daily.
Ohajiri, who expressed hope of the return of the good old days’ business with the raising of another healer in the synagogue, said that despondency had become their lot for now.
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