The elder brother to Mrs. Eunice
Olawale, the preacher who was murdered in Kubwa, Abuja on Saturday,
Prophet Ayodele Olusesan, says that the evangelist planned to buy a car
and complete the construction of a building for their father before her
death.
Eunice was also said to have promised to
refund the hospital bills of her ailing father, Elder Ayodele Akun, 72,
who had yet to be informed of the demise of his daughter.
Olusesan told our correspondent on
Monday that the family was waiting for the old man’s health to improve
before breaking the sad news to him, adding that his mother took ill and
had to be hospitalised at the General Hospital, Ilawe-Ekiti, when she
heard that her daughter had passed on.
Olusesan, a cleric with the Christ
Apostolic Church, Power of Resurrection, Ikorodu, Lagos, described
Eunice as the breadwinner of the family, who she said had plans for him
and other family members.
The cleric, who spoke at the residence
of the deceased in Kubwa, stated that he chatted with her over the
telephone on Friday night, adding that he was shocked to hear that
Eunice had died on Saturday morning.
He said, “There is no day I don’t talk
with her on the phone; I still spoke with her around 7pm on Friday and
she promised to refund any amount spent on our father who is ill and is
in hospital.
“Eunice had also promised to complete
the house my father was building and she also said she would buy him a
car; she was a very industrious woman; she studied Quantity Surveying,
and she was into property business, so she was doing well financially.”
Asked if he had a premonition of his
sibling’s death, Olusesan explained that he had a dream in which a
woman’s head was severed, but according to him, he never thought such a
tragedy would befall his family.
He said, “Last month, I had a terrible
dream in which I saw some assailants cutting off the head of a woman. In
the dream, I picked up the head and chased after the men and I woke up.
The dream was so vivid. I prayed and God directed me to fast for five
days which I did.
“Though I was very close to my sister, I
didn’t share the dream with her, because I never thought it had to do
with her, but I shared it with my church members and we prayed against
such a tragedy. We still prayed about it during our church vigil last
Friday.”
Olusesan expressed regrets over the
manner in which his sister was killed, adding that she was stabbed in
the neck, chest and legs.
He said, “The painful aspect of the
incident is that she was killed in the open, in a city like Abuja that
has policemen on patrol everywhere. I heard that some policemen were
saying maybe she was killed over a business dispute, but I want to say
that my sister did not engage in any business deals with anyone because
she shared everything about her business with me, she had no secrets.”
A family friend to the deceased, Pastor
Alabi Lawrence, said that the family was waiting for the autopsy to be
conducted on Eunice remains before the family would arrange for the
funeral which he said might hold next week.
He described as sad and unfortunate the
failure of the people around the crime scene to come to the aid of the
deceased when she was under attack.
“It is pathetic that the people
around the crime scene did not respond to her cry for help when she was
being attacked; it is a pity, Nigerians are no longer their brother’s
keeper,” Lawrence, a lawyer said.
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