A female early morning preacher was on Saturday killed by
unknown assailants in Bolar – pipeline area of Kubwa in
Abuja. The deceased is believed to be a wife of a pastor in the
Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG). Though details
are still sketchy, it was gathered that she was attacked few
minutes after she started her usual early morning preaching.
Residents of the area claimed that they heard her preach as
usual around 5am but found her lifeless body around 6am. A
male resident, who sought anonymity said, he heard her voice
early in the morning. He said: “I heard her voice as usual in
the morning around 5am preaching and at a point, her voice
faded.
“By the time I woke up to start my morning chores, I started
hearing people say that a dead body has been found in my
area.
“On getting there, I discovered that it was the body of the
woman preacher. She is such a nice and jovial person, she
doesn’t deserve to die at all and if at all, not in that manner.”
On how the woman was found, he said: “She was practically
slaughtered. Her legs were injured and she was lying in the
pool of her own blood before policemen came to evacuate her
body. Another resident simply known as Idris said: “I heard
her preaching today like every normal day.
“Later on, I heard someone screaming but because of the
security situation in the country, I decided not to come out.
“By the time I came out, I saw people gathered discussing the
death of the woman. I believe if most people had come out
when she screamed, she would have been saved.
Another resident, Uju lamented the security situation in the
area despite paying for security levies. She said: “To think
that we pay for security and this place is not protected is
saddening.
“What is the work of the security men? Most times when you
are come home late, you will find them sleeping and in some
cases, you don’t even see them a t all.
“I think something has to be done urgently to beef up the
security in this area because no one deserves to be killed.
When a call was placed to the security outfit in charge of the
area, Sam & Co to get the details, its head Mr. Sam, said: “I
saw a deep cut on one side of her stomach and her leg.
“She was not stabbed. I feel if she was stabbed, we would
have met her gasping for breath. But when we got to her place
because we heard someone shouting blood of Jesus
repeatedly, she was already gone.
“The community has two points of entry and we were asked
to close one of the entries because a meeting was to be held in
the morning. So, we were there doing that around 5am when
Muslims were going for prayers and the Christians who went
for vigil were returning.
“This is a woman who preaches every morning. She always
admonishes people to repent and that the kingdom of God is
at hand.
“We heard someone shouting the blood of Jesus and we
noticed that the rate at which the person was calling the blood
of Jesus was too much. But before we got there, she was in
the pool of her blood.”
He said her corpse was taken to phase four police station for
further investigations.
Contacted, the Federal Capital Territory Police Public
Relations Officer, ASP Anjuguri Manzah initially said he was
not aware of the incident.
Hours later when our reporter called back, Manzah said: “I
have not confirmed because they changed the DPO and I
don’t have the new DPO’s number.”
He however pleaded for more time to get the details.
All efforts to reach him for updates as at the time of filing this
report proved abortive