add delay to forward message

[sportsman1984]

cheers everybody,

i want to forward messages from channels that have a bot in. The bot takes an incoming message and replaces it with a different message
as a result two messages are being forwarded by tgcf - the original message and the reposted message from the channel bot

can I somehow prevent this behavior? I thought about adding a delay (eg 2 seconds) before a message is forwarded but i am not sure whether this will work and how to do it.
Any ideas or help will be much appreciated