As the local government pastor, he moved round to check all locations to ensure that all was well. He would end up at the location very closest to his house for the Bible Study. Last Monday, the late Pastor Emmnauel Lambe had visited a location because he told me he was going to the first location. So, I said: ‘It is ok; you will come and meet us.’ He said ‘yes’. So, when it was around 7.52pm, I gave him a call because I had a message for him.
I said ‘where are you now?’ He said ‘I am at the second location to see the children teachers because we’re planning for children holiday programme.’ He said he wanted to see them and see how far they had gone with the arrangements. I said ‘okay; are you coming back?’ He said ‘no’, that he would from there move back to the first location. I don’t know for what reason. That was how I switched off. Within 10 or 15 minutes later, the usher in the location where we were then just saw two men moving to the back of the church and the men looked strange. So, he said they should stop the preaching so that we could go home because he was suspecting something.
There was disagreement. Some people argued against it. I said ‘let us know what is happening before we move so that we will not enter into what we are running from’. Later, they said we should put off the generator so that we could escape in the darkness to our homes. That was how we came back. On my way, I was busy calling him to see where he was. I knew I couldn’t get him but since there was problem somewhere, he would be there. So, I called. The phone was ringing; nobody was picking it. I called the other number. The daughter also called. I said, ‘okay, let’s just go home and wait’. So, we began to call those we could call that are not pastors. From some, there was response; some said they entered that church and they shot so many people. I said, ‘what of the pastor?’ He said he would tell me later.
That was how I was held in suspense, until later around 11pm I phoned my Regional Overseer’s wife and told her ‘please come and carry me. I want to know what is happening. What of my husband?’ She said I should stay that they were coming to meet me at home. That was how I was kept there and remained until around 5.20am in the morning that I saw all the leaders. They just came and told me he was shot. That he had died as a martyr. He died in the service of the Lord. I too will continue so that we will meet there together. I accepted it because he was a loving husband. He cared. He was my pastor. He was my teacher. All along he had been the one taking care of me because I have no father, I have no mother and the Lord had been using him to take care of me. But I know since God had permitted it, He will surely care for us. That is our consolation. He gave us hope and we will remain. We will continue to serve the Lord because our God is worthy to be worshipped. No matter what happens, we will still continue to serve the Almighty God.
Actually, we would have loved to be together but as God would have it, He wanted him at this time. So, we have no option, but to surrender to the Almighty God. He knows everything and He owns us and whenever he needs us, we have no option but to surrender. So, I surrender to him. He gives and he takes at any time. If it were to be humanly speaking, we want to be together. We planned together. There are many things we hoped to do, even this month, not to mention other years to come, but God said He needs him more than me.
There was nothing strange on that day to suggest that such a calamity could occur! He was so happy that Monday. He was chatting and interacted freely with the daughter. He was so happy. The last time he dropped me, the last conversation we had physically, he was even joking. He said ‘okay, everybody should keep quiet’. I should not talk; he too would not talk. I said ‘we will see who will talk first.’ He said ‘no’, he would see who will laugh first. So, I laughed. He said ‘ehen now you have started.’ The moment was so cordial and fine. After dropping me, he said, ‘please, don’t back the vehicles. Make sure you go on the right track where you can see vehicles coming, not that you will back them.’ That was the last statement he made. There was nothing to show that anything was going to happen.
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