First daughter of the woman who
was murdered while preaching at Kubwa, Abuja, Mrs Eunice Olawale,
Jessica, said her mum asked her to love her siblings and take care of
them night before her death.
She also said her only consolation was that her late mum was in heaven.
The 15-year-old girl, speaking with the Nigerian Tribune on Monday, said “the
evening before she was killed, she woke me up to follow her somewhere,
When we got to a junction, she paid a shopkeeper who she was owing.
“When
we were returning home, she asked me if I noticed the love between her
and her siblings, she then asked me to love my siblings as well and
bring them together. She said I am supposed to love them and be their
mother.”
“The last thing she told me before she died was ‘good night dear’.”
A
condolence message by Jessica read: “Mummy, I can’t still believe you
are gone. I love you so much. I will try to be very strong for daddy,
ok.
“I will take care of my younger ones like you wanted me to
do. Oh! How I miss you. You were so beautiful in all, suffering and
pain. I miss you, come back to us.”
The second child, Michael, said her mother was the strongest woman he ever knew.
“If
we don’t have food to eat and we ask her what we will eat, she will say
God will provide. She encourages my daddy, during the last year
convention, she paid the transportation fee for a number of people while
we have not known how we will go,” he said.
Nigerian Tribune
gathered that about 123 condolence messages had been written in the
register, including the message from the wife of the Vice-President, Mrs
Dolapo Osinbajo.
Meanwhile, the husband of the deceased, Pastor
Elisha Olawale, has said he will not file any charges against the
perpetrators of the act if arrested, but will, instead, want them to
repent.
Pastor Olawale further described her late wife, Eunice, as everything he had, adding that he would miss her absence.
Speaking
with the Nigerian Tribune on Monday, the husband of the deceased noted
that he and his wife had been very open to each other, even on their
individual financial stand.
According to him, “as a pastor, we
have been called to the ministry of reconciliation. If they arrest them
(perpetrators), killing them won’t help, we are just helping the devil
more.
“What I will suggest is that if they should preach to them,
they should accept Christ, heaven has more gain, as long as my wife has
gone to heaven, if they accept Christ, that will be myjoy.”
He
further said “I will miss everything about my wife, she is my mother and
my sister. Before she died, she knew what I have in my account and I
knew what she had in her account. We have been open to each other. She
is almost all we have.”
