Preacher Murdered: They killed my mother like a chicken—15-yr-old daughter

Among the early callers at the residence were wife
of the Vice President, Dolapo Osinbajo, who visited
the family at about 12:30p.m.; wife of the General
Overseer of RCCG, Mrs Adeboye, and the Bwari Area
Council Chairman, Musa Dikko.
Late Mrs Eunice
Olawale was
murdered at about
5:30a.m. on
Saturday, as she
went for early
morning preaching
(Morning Cry)
close to her
residence. Her
throat was slit,
with her head
rested on the
bible she used for
preaching.
Already, the
Federal Capital
Territory, FCT,
Police Command
has said that
investigation was ongoing to uncover those behind
the act, just as miscreants were reported to be on
rampage at Arab Road, Omega Paints Road, Pipeline
and its environs, terrorising people.

‘They killed her like a chicken’


Dolapo Osinbajo , Wife of Vice President (second
right) , condoling Pastor Olawale Elisha, husband of
(Late Eunice Olawale ) who was murdered in her
cold blood on Saturday Morning while preaching at
Kubwa in Abuja during a condolence visit to the
family on Sunday . With them are the children of the
deceased.
Speaking to Vanguard at their residence, the first
daughter of the late deaconess, Jessica Olawale,
while crying uncontrollably, said that her mother
was killed like a chicken.

The 15-year-old 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.”
Her 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.

‘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.”
The deceased, according to her husband, was born
on July 23, 1974. They got married in July, 2000.
On whether the deceased, who was into property,
had any disagreement with anybody, the husband
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.

“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.”
Miscreants in charge
Meanwhile, it was gathered that about 10a.m.
yesterday, some of the miscreants living in shanties
built in front of the Fresh Fire Parish Gbazango were
packing their belongings and fleeing.
Some members of the church complained that they
were always terrorised by the boys within the
Gbazango area up to Omega Paint Street opposite
Total Filing Station and its environs by miscreants
who live in shanties.

Church members said that the boys always spread
their mats in front of the church to sleep and do
their ablution, which had forced the church not to
carry out their Tuesday, Thursday mid-week
service.

“They have provoked us to take action, but we have
remained calm,” one of them stated, adding that
that they called the police to tell them the
miscreants, who they said were mainly Hausa/
Fulani, were running away, but the police did
nothing.
Police story
Meanwhile, the FCT Police Command said it has
arrested some suspects in connection with the
murder of the 42-year-old 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 in earnest.