Lord’s Chosen Pastor’s wife stabbed to death in Benue

A few attackers, on Sunday, stabbed a 55-year-old woman, known as Mrs Eunice Omaye Odoba, to death in Otukpo, Benue State.

Mrs Odoba, the mother of three, whose spouse is a pastor of the Lord’s Chosen Church, but is on faith mission to Equatorial Guinea, was stated to have been stabbed in the chest.

Her younger brother, Adoba Mac, and cousin, Ude Adole, who talked to our journalist on the telephone, declared that her corpse was found when members did not see her in church and decided to visit her.

Mac disclosed that a family meeting was held in the early hours of Sunday before her horrible murder.

He said, “When we finished the family meeting around 6.30am yesterday (Sunday), she said she was rushing to church and I was the one who took her on my motorcycle and dropped her at the junction to her house and we parted.

“Only for me to receive a call from someone, who was working around her house around 3pm that I should rush down to my sister’s house.

“On getting there, I saw some of her church members, who I later learnt said that they did not see her in church, which was very unusual, and they decided to check her at home.

“I saw her lying down in a pool of her own blood and discovered that she was stabbed in the topmost part of her breast.”

It was learnt that that Eunice, who was the proprietress of Verda International School, Otukpo, lived alone, while her children, two boys and a girl, live outside the city.

The brother clarified that while the only daughter of the deceased was a student of Nursing School in Enugu, one of the male children is a serving youth corps member and the other a banker in Abuja.

Mac further said that Eunice’s spouse left for a faith mission trip to Equatorial Guinea in February this year.

It was learnt that men of Nigeria Police, Otukpo Division, removed her body and kept it in the morgue.

At the point when reached, the state police command spokesperson, DSP Catherine Anene, disclosed that she had yet to get the report of the incident.