Elijah Olawale, the husband of RCCG evangelist, Eunice
Olawale, who was murdered while she was preaching at Bwari, Abuja on
Saturday July 9th, said he warned his wife about preaching in the
morning two weeks ago. Speaking with The Sun, Elijah said
“About three weeks ago, my wife went to the back of my house. That
morning, after preaching, she came and told me that a man in the mosque
heard her and called on people to listen to what she was saying.
When she came back and told me about it, I warned
her. I did that because I was a Muslim before I converted and became a
Christian. I told her to be careful. I told her that although what the
man in the mosque said was commendable, she needed to be careful. For
about a week, she did not go out to preach because of the warning. That
was about three weeks ago that I warned her. The comments made by the
man in the mosque were not against her. In fact, they were commending
her.”he said
Elijah said his wife was the breadwinner of his family.
“I am a pastor, and a pastor depends on what God gives to him. Sincerely
speaking, my wife was the breadwinner of this home. That is the truth.
She sold things to take care of the house. She was the one God used to
take care of this house. In the past, I was into business. But my wife
and I agreed about two years ago that I needed to face the ministry
since the business was affecting it. She said I should be fasting and
praying for people. She was the one who paid the school fees and took
care of other things. My wife always went out early in the morning for
the ‘Morning Cry,’ to preach. On that fateful morning, she went around
5.30am and I was still in bed because we had a vigil overnight. She
participated for a while and slept because she was going out to preach
in the morning. Two of my boys are footballers, so they went to the
field to play. And when they came back, they told me that they heard
some footballers saying that they butchered a woman preaching early this
morning. So, when I heard this, we trekked down with the short I was
putting on and we did not see anybody, but we saw blood on the ground. I
asked a policeman around and he said it is 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 there, she was taken to the mortuary. The incident
happened between 5am and 5:30am because she usually went out by 5am and
came back by 6am. I fell down when I saw the body of my wife covered. I
cried. I was too tired and could not drive back home. Someone had to
drive us back to the house”he said.