How My Wife Was Gruesomely Killed – Husband Of Murdered Abuja Preacher
Late Mrs. Eunice Olawale Elisha[/caption]
Elisha Olawale, the husband to Eunice, who was murdered in cold blood in the early hours of Saturday July 9th, by suspected Muslim fanatics while evangelizing around Gbazango and Pipeline area of Kubwa, a satellite town in Abuja, has explained how the gruesome event occurred.
Recall that on Saturday, Eunice was reportedly beheaded and stabbed in the stomach and leg by her killers when she went out for “morning cry” – an early morning evangelism, but a statement by the police has already debunked that claim.
Olawale, who is also a pastor at the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) narrated the incident to newsmen during a condolence visit by the wife of Vice President, Dolapo Osinbajo.
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He said that his wife had gone out to preach in the neighbourhood at about 5 am only for him to hear the report of her murder.
“My wife always goes out early in the morning for ‘Morning Cry.’ There was a particular day she went out and she told me that there is a mosque at the back, where they made comments about her preaching. So I just cautioned her,” he said.
“This morning (Saturday), she went around 5a.m. and I was still in bed because we did vigil which she participated in for a while because of the ‘Morning Cry’ she planned to undertake.
“Two of my boys are footballers; they went to the field to play. When they came back, they told me that they heard some footballers saying that some hoodlums had butchered a woman who was preaching early this morning.
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“I found my wife lifeless in a police van’ Pastor Olawale Elisha husband of (Late Eunice Olawale ) who was murdered in her cold blood while preaching at Kubwa in Abuja during a condolence visit by the wife of Vice President , Dolapo Osinbajo to the family on Sunday .
“We hurried down in the shorts I was putting on but did not see anybody. However, we saw blood on the ground. I asked a policeman around and he said it was true but that they had taken her to Phase 4 Police Station.
“I went to the station with my children and when we got there, I saw the lifeless body of my wife at the back of the police van and from there, she was taken to the mortuary. The incident happened between 5and 5:30a.m. because she usually goes out at 5a.m. and comes back 6a.m,” he said.
When asked if the deceased, who was into property, had any disagreement with anybody, Elisha said: “She had no problem with anybody and there was no property to sell at hand. She didn’t have anything with anybody.”
He said that the Command Officer in Kubwa had visited the house and promised to come back for condolence, adding “they came with the Chairman of Bwari Area Council.
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“Even the DPO called me in the morning and asked me to come to their station to make a report. I called my senior pastors, who said I shouldn’t go, wondering why he expects me, with the emotional trauma, to come there.”
Meanwhile, the FCT Commissioner of Police, Mr Alkali Usman, has ordered the Deputy Commissioner of Police, Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (CIID) to investigate Mrs Eunice murder.
According to a statement signed by the spokesman of the command, Anjuguri Manzah, six suspect in connection with the murder have been arrested and were currently undergoing interrogation.
The statement revealed that the outcome of the investigation would be made public.
