‘They killed my mother like a chicken’ Daughter Of Mum Killed During Evangelism Cries Out

The family of the RCCG deaconess and 42-year-old mother of seven who was killed during early morning evangelism in Abuja has narrated how she was murdered.

The 15-year-old daughter of late Mrs. Eunice Olawale who was murdered on Saturday around 5:30am by unknown persons said that her mother was killed like a chicken.

Over the weekend, wife of the Vice President, Mrs. Dolapo Osinbajo, visited the family of the deceased at about 12:30 p.m with the wife of the General Overseer of RCCG, Mrs. Adeboye, and the Bwari Area Council Chairman, Musa Dikko.

Vanguard, at their residence, gathers that the first daughter of the late deaconess, Jessica Olawale, while crying uncontrollably, said that her mother was killed like a chicken.

Jessica, who is a Senior Secondary School 2 student, said: “Everybody is just saying it is well, nobody can understand how I feel.

“She is innocent; she didn’t do anybody any harm. She uses just her megaphone and bible; just preaching. They just killed her like a chicken and left her there.”

The deceased’s husband, Olawale Elisha, who is also a pastor at RCCG, said: “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.

“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.

“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 5 and 5:30a.m. because she usually goes out at 5a.m. and comes back 6a.m.

“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.

“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 Police Command said it has arrested some suspects in connection with the murder of the preacher.

Spokesperson of the Command, ASP Anjuguri Manzah, said the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Alkali Usman, had directed the homicide section to take over the investigation.

He said: “We have made some arrests and they are helping in our investigation. The commissioner of police has ordered the homicide section of the command to take over the investigation of the case.”

The spokesman, however, did not mention the number of suspects arrested. He said that personnel of the command had visited the scene of the incident and investigation had commenced.