video released by her family how she believed the house of her husband,
a pastor with the Christ Apostolic Church, Onigbogbo, Atan Ota, Ogun
State, Pastor Olusegun Omoniyi, was bewitched, making her sick till she
died.
following what her family termed “mysterious attacks” which had forced
her to flee her matrimonial home.
that the video, which is one of many that were recorded few days before
Omolade died, was shot in order to get her personal accounts on record.
“Please for God’s sake, don’t let me die. Take me to wherever you know I
will get help. I have been calling you (her husband), but you ignored
my calls. Everybody help me to beg him. I have taken three pints of
blood, but I excreted them all away. Help me, I don’t want to die,” she
said in one part of the video.
sick bed at the Safeway Hospital, Sango, where she was receiving
treatment, showed the 42-year-old begging her husband for a solution to
her predicament.
church by some OPC members, who were allegedly hired by members of his
wife’s family.
hideout where his estranged wife was being treated for a strange illness
he claimed struck her seven months after she left their matrimonial
home.
bed and beaten until the police came to his rescue.He also alleged that a
day after his wife died, he was attacked again and forced to sleep on
the corpse.
him and took away all her property over their childlessness despite
being married for 16 years. He also accused his wife’s family of being
the brains behind the trouble in their union.
Saturday, during a chat with our correspondent, Omolade’s family showed
our correspondent few recorded interview sessions they had with her
before her demise.
explained that she was a proprietress of a school in the Alaba area,
where she stayed from Monday to Friday to ease transport cost.
She said, “I, however, observed that anytime I go home for weekend, I
get sick. The sickness would continue till Monday when I have to leave
for work. Once I step out of the house for work, I would be relieved.
This had happened many times.
“On a particular weekend that I was
supposed to return home, I decided to stay back at school and see if I
would fall sick again. Surprisingly, nothing happened to me.
“I then
called my husband’s attention to it. I begged him that he should find a
solution to the problem, but he said he was praying for me and all
would be well. At another time, he dismissed it and said I was lying.”
work when she felt a sharp pain in the neck as she approached home.
“By Saturday morning, my condition had become worse and I could not
eat. On Sunday morning, when some people brought church’s instruments, I
suddenly collapsed. I was revived and I put myself together, wore my
clothes and entered the church so that our members would not be
wondering why I didn’t attend Sunday service.
“After the service, I went on a visit to a church elder’s wife. As soon as I got to their house, I became relieved,” she added.
for moving her things from the house, saying Olusegun reported her to
the family.
“Why will I divorce my husband after all our struggles together to the
point of building our own house and after all my contributions? I told
her the only issue we had was my husband’s uncaring attitude, especially
when I became sick. He would sometime say I was lying. Whereas, if he
was the one that was sick, I could kill myself over his health.
“There
was a time he was sick and things were hard for us. I had to go under
the bridge at Sango to beg people for money, just to raise money for his
medications. But in my case, he never cared about me and this was what
happened when we lost two children in a single day,” she added.
shunning her calls and at a point, stopped taking the calls, querying
her for leaving the house.
appealing to her husband in the presence of some family members, friends
and a doctor.
He said, “Nobody kidnapped or abducted him. On January 7, we invited
him to come and see his wife, but he refused. On February 4, the supreme
council of CAC and top CAC elders at Ibadan mediated and asked him to
take care of the sick woman so that she would not die. He also refused.
“I
was later called to donate blood for my sister, which I did. But she
excreted it. She was in pain and was crying that she wanted to see her
husband.
“A brother, two friends and myself, went to bring him from
the house. We never used any OPC member and we never beat or tortured
him. By this time, my sister’s stomach, legs and hands were swollen. The
police later came in to take him away. My sister died 12am the
following day.”
was surprised when Olusegun’s insisted she would not be buried on the
land they alleged co-owned.
“We were in a vehicle en route to the place at Atan Ota, when he started
making a fake call for people to dig the grave. We had not gone far
when the police came again and removed him from our midst. We had to
abort the burial plan because it was already late,” he added.
He said, “My wife was never sick in my house. Actually, for the past
three years, she had a painless lump on her breast. She was fine and did
all her normal work. I, however, suggested to her to go to the hospital
concerning the lump so it could be removed, but she said since it was
not paining her, I should leave it. I also called one of her relatives
in Owo, who said I was being heartless for wanting them to remove the
lump, which had been there for three years. I then stopped talking about
it.
“I had gone for a pastors’ conference when she brought some of
her relatives to the house. They broke down the door and took away all
her property. She later told me her relatives advised her to abandon me
over our childlessness.
“I was not the one that was not reachable on
the phone, it was she. At a point, nobody even knew her location. When I
was called that she was sick, I was surprised and couldn’t believe it.”
until he was rescued by the police, showed copies of his medical report.
2016 by one Dr. Oyejoko S.A., said, “Case of gang beating and blunt
injuries.”