The first daughter of the evangelist who was hacked to death while preaching at Kubwa, Abuja, Mrs Eunice Olawale, Jessica, has spoken on the demise of her mother.
Jessica revealed that a night before the death of her mother, she had told her to love her siblings and take care of them – she said her only consolation was that her late mum was in heaven.
15-year-old teenager who spoke 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 reads:
“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 deceased’s second child, Michael, said his 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 his late wife, Eunice, as everything he had, adding that he would miss her absence.
Speaking with the publication 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.”