By Ola ‘Kiya, Reporting
Senior Pastor of Dunamis International, a fast-growing Pentecostal church with headquarters in Abuja, Pastor Paul Enenche, has explained his side of the story of how sensational gospel singer, Sis. Osinachi Nwachukwu died.
Pastor Enenche, under whom the ministry of the late minstrel was prospering, gave the explanation at the church’s headquarters on Wednesday in Abuja.
He said although he was aware of when the singer had health challenges and did all he could to help, he wasn’t aware of the battery ongoing in her family.
In a live video on the official television of the ministry and social media loops, the medical doctor who regretted the death of the minstrel, said the church, has “zero degree tolerance for domestic abuse and wife battery of any sort.”
Read the full excerpts of the broadcast:
“Over two months or so ago, she came to see me with her husband with complains of chest pains and respiratory distress.
“I prayed for her. And when the symptoms did not abate, I counselled that they go to the hospital to know what we were dealing with. And they asked if I could help them facilitate the process.
“I called the head of our medical team to help handle the situation and he called colleagues in the federal medical center where they attended them. On seeing her after examination and investigation which includes CT scan and from what the doctor saw, they felt that there was need for further investigation either in the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital or the National Hospital in Abuja.
“I called the doctor, respiratory physician, Dr. Ako Alexander told him the situation and he asked them to come see him immediately. And they went there. After they gave examined her there and saw the situation, they saw that there was a need for biopsy of the lung tissue and they asked that they should go to the national hospital to get that done.
“I then called Dr. Jubril, head of pathology and consultant and reported the issue to him and to help us with the investigation and find out what happened. I am calling names and places because the people are very much alive and they are verifiable. The histology was done from what I saw at that time, and the picture was much milder than what the CT scan showed earlier.
“So we felt very happy that there was relieved. She called daily and I prayed with her and a point cane where she needs oxygen no more. That was the point it was before we went for a crusade in Cameron. It was at Cameron the second night, that I got to know of the unfortunate incidence of her passing.
“Now, if there was domestic violence that led to or coincided with those symptoms she came with two to three months ago, there’s no way I would know. And if there had been perennial domestic violence, there was no way I would have known.
“The things we were hearing after her passing were things that were very very strange to me. Then I began to ask questions.
“First I asked the twin sister if she was aware of her sister passing through those things and she said yes; that she knew some of them but that the majority of them, she was hearing from those she confided in.
“I asked her that if she knew, why didn’t she let us know? And the twin sister said that she always begged her not to let the church know that she should just pray for her so that the man will change. And that continued to happen.
“I asked the son why he didn’t tell me and he said that they couldn’t tell me that the father would always ask them if they told me anything and so on.
“I asked one of the members of the choir who was privy to what was happening when we paid a visit to the family why she didn’t tell me and she said that Osinachi would always go on her knees and tell them not to tell, but just pray.
“The last one that touched me so much was the music producer who came to see me in the office to tell me his own experience two days ago of how the man slapped the wife in his music studio.
“And I told him how can he leave a man that slapped a woman in his presence alone when he is a man; and he said before he could respond to the man, the woman knelt down with tears in her eyes, begged him not to do anything.
“So, we’ve heard these stories and they are things we got to know after she has passed.
“As a person and as a church, everyone who knows us knew that we have zero degree tolerance for domestic abuse and wife battery of any sort.
“If you ever listened to any if our relationship messages, there is a principle, policy and rule we have; and that is, it is better to be alive without a marriage than to die because of marriage. We have said that over and over again.
“This kind of time is a time where people heap all manner of blames on the church and that is typical because whatever goes wrong, the first port of call is the church. I have seen people ask questions that why should a wife abuser be a member of a church? Or how can somebody be so brutal and he is a member of the church?
“That is not a question that people who know scriptures should ask. You know the Ark of Noah; the same Ark that carried good animals also had evil beasts. Jesus Christ had a followership they called the multitudes and for me, multitude means multiple attitude. People with multiple tendencies, behaviours. In fact, one of those who also followed Jesus was a thief who later sold Him.
“The question is, how could somebody like that follow Jesus as perfect as Jesus was?
“There was a personality called Lucifer who was in Heaven and became Satan the Devil under the nose of God in heaven?
“Heaven, a place where there was no sin and could never be sin at all; and this guy became the inventor and originator of sin.
“How is it possible for a personality to be a devil from being an archangel right in Heaven? That is how possible it is for anybody to be anything right inside the church.
“Even the best of pastors, preachers in the world cannot change anybody who is unwilling to be changed.”
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