Oluwakemi Omolewa, widow of slain
resident pastor of Living Faith Church, Kaduna, has been freed by her captors.
Last Sunday, suspected bandits
attacked the Omolewas along Kaduna-Abuja road, killing Jeremiah, the husband of
the abducted woman.
Joseph Hayab, Kaduna state
chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), confirmed her release
in an interview on Friday.
He said Oluwakemi, who is a
deaconess in the church, was freed on Thursday night after a ransom was paid.
“Sadly, when we raised alarm that our people are being kidnapped, someone, instead of apologising to us and
tell us that they have not done well, let’s work together to do well, they will
go and sponsor some faceless young boys who are jobless and give them money to
insult us,” he said.
“The recent alarm I raised about
the killing of the late Omolewa and the abduction of his wife last Sunday, the
next thing I saw (on Facebook), was a write up and a caricature of myself that
I was speaking for PDP. And I asked this
question; are those Christians kidnapped, PDP members?
“Let’s not politicise issues that
affect people’s lives. I don’t have PDP card, but even if I have, is that a
crime in Nigeria?
‘’Even the APC in Kaduna state,
when they wanted to be governor, they wrote me a letter seeking for my blessing
and they know that we supported the governor to be elected during his first
term. Should I be accused of being PDP member, just because I told them that
something is wrong?
“That will not deter the church
from speaking out the truth. If this money we have been paying to kidnappers
were to be channeled, we would have helped government in solving some of the
problems in the educational and health sectors by investing in those sectors.
“Sadly, today they are allowing
evil people to impoverish us. What is politics in me telling you that my people
are suffering and dying? What is politics in telling you that these kidnappers
should be arrested?
“They are spending our money on
our security but we are still suffering…They are now talking about blackmailing
us, we will call the church to take action to stop this evil. We will not
continue to have our people being abducted and killed. Our people cannot
continue to live in fear, even in their homes.
“Even the United Nations that
talks about peace will not allow evil to go around the world. So blackmailing us will not stop us from
crying that our people are being kidnapped and they are suffering and nothing
is being done.
“Blackmail and character
assassination, just to cover up for your inability to secure us, will not
address the problem.”
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