Enenche also said Osinachi’s son, her twin sister and the church’s music director, only confirmed the abuse after her death
By Kehinde Okeowo
Osinachi Nwachukwu’s pastor, Paul Enenche has denied prior knowledge of the domestic abuse charges levelled against her husband, Peter Nwachukwu.
The pastor, who is also a medical doctor, made this known in a video shared on social media on Wednesday evening, saying the late gospel singer and her husband only told him about her chest infection, which he got her medical help for.
The late lead singer of the Dunamis choir died on Friday, 8th April, at a hospital in Abuja, and her husband who is currently in police custody has been fingered in her death.
Enenche added that he only knew about the series of abuse she allegedly suffered at the hands of her husband after she was dead.
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The clergyman explained it was after he heard about the domestic violence allegations after the singer’s death, that he began to investigate.
He said he made inquiries from her twin sister, son, and some church members who knew about the physical abuse, and they said they kept it from him because the late singer begged them not to let the church leaders know.
He also said the church’s music director also confirmed the allegation by Frank Edwards that the husband of the late Osinachi slapped her during a studio session.
He said: “If there was domestic violence that led to or coincided with those symptoms that she came with two to three months ago, there is no way I would know. And if there had been perennial domestic violence, there was no way I would have known.
“I began to ask questions, first I asked the twin sister, ‘were you aware that your sister passed through all these things. She said she knew some of them but a majority of them, she was hearing also from those she (the victim) confided in. I asked her, I said if you knew, why didn’t you let us know?’
“The sister said she always begged her, please don’t let the church know, don’t tell the pastor, please the man will change, just pray for us, and that continued to happen.”
As for the son, the pastors said, “I asked why didn’t you tell me, because typically they will run towards me after service and I will pray for them and lay hands on them, and I said why didn’t you tell me about what was going on in the home, and the young man said, they couldn’t tell me because the father would always ask them after they left me and said ‘what did you tell the pastor?”
He went on, “The last one that touched me so much was the music producer who came to see me in the office a few days ago to tell me his own experience. He told me how he witnessed the man slap his wife in his studio, and I said to him, you saw a man slap a woman in your presence and you left the man and he said that before he could respond to the man, the woman again with tears on her knees begged him not to do anything, to leave him alone.”
Pastor Enenche went on to insist that his church has zero-tolerance for domestic abuse and wife battering, he also explained why Mr. Nwachukwu was still attending the church despite beating his wife.
He finally prayed for people who are frustrated and are holding the church accountable for the tragic incident.
“The church is not your place for transfer of aggression. We are willing to help you if you have so much bitterness and so much distraction in your life and you don’t know where to vent it. We can help you. We want to let you know we love you and Jesus loves you. It is well with you” Enenche added.
