The Founder of Dunamis International Gospel Centre, Pastor Paul Enenche, has spoken about the death of popular gospel singer, Osinachi Nwachukwu, who was alleged to have died as a result of domestic violence perpetrated by her husband, Peter Nwachukwu.
The Star had reported that Osinachi, who was a lead singer at Dunamis church, died last Friday after spending days at an undisclosed hospital in Abuja.
Following the death of the 42-year-old gospel artiste, some of her colleagues accused her husband of beating and maltreating the gospel singer, leading to his arrest by the police.
It was further alleged that the Dunamis church was aware of the domestic violence inflicted on Osinachi by her husband and persuaded the singer to stay in the marriage.
However, the founder of the church has denied the insinuations, saying he was not aware of any domestic violence until the reports came out after the gospel singer’s death.
Pastor Enenche disclosed that the late singer had, during a visit to his office with her husband, complained of chest pains and respiratory stress.
The cleric stated that after he assisted the couple with prayers, he helped facilitate her visit to different hospitals where she was checked and managed for the illness.
Pastor Enenche made this known via a video shared on his Facebook page on Wednesday night.
He captioned the video: “What I know about the passing of Mrs. Osinachi Nwachukwu.”
Enenche said: “Over two or three months ago, she came to see me with her husband with complaints of chest pain and respiratory distress. I prayed for her and prayed again.
“When the symptoms did not abate, I counselled them to go to the hospital to help us know what we were dealing with and they asked if I could help facilitate that process.
“I called the head of our medical team, Dr Osang, who is a Consultant Paediatrician at the Federal Medical Centre, Keffi, to assist with their situation and he called his colleagues at the Federal Medical Centre, Jabi, where they attended to them.
“On seeing her, they ordered some investigations after examination, and that included a CT scan.
“That was done and from what the doctors saw, they felt that there was a need for further investigation, either at the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital or at the National Hospital in Abuja.
“I called the doctor, a consultant pulmonologist respiratory physician at the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, Dr Akoh Alexander, and told him the situation, and he asked that they come to see him immediately; and they went to the Gwagwalada Teaching Hospital.
“After they had examined her there and saw the situation, they felt there was a need for histology and biopsy of the lung tissue and they asked that she should go to the National Hospital to get that done.
“I again called Dr Jubril, who is the Head of Pathology and Consultant Histopathologist of the National Hospital Abuja, and reported the issue to him so he could help us with the investigation and find out what exactly happened and they continued the management.”
Pastor Enenche added: “The histology was done, and from what I saw at that time, the picture was much milder than what the CT scan earlier showed.
“So, we felt very happy that, at least, there was a relief.
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“She called me daily and we prayed with her, she reported progress. The point came when she did not need oxygen anymore.
“According to what she said to me one night, they checked her oxygen perfusion and it was 100 per cent, and we were very excited about that progress.
“That was the point it was before we went for the crusade in Cameroon. It was the second night in Cameroon that I got to know of the unfortunate incident of her passing.
“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.
“The things we are hearing after her passing were things that were very very strange to me.”
He continued: “Then I began to ask questions. First, I asked her twin sister were you aware that your sister was passing through all these things, she said yes that she saw some of them but that majority of them, she knew from those her late sister confided in.
“I asked her if you knew, why didn’t you tell us, she said her sister will beg her don’t let the church know, the man will change.
“I asked her first son yesterday, why didn’t you tell me, because typically they will run to me after service and I will pray for them.
“So I asked why didn’t you tell me, he said their father will tell them not to tell me anything.
“As a person and as a church, we have zero degree tolerance for domestic abuse of any sort.
“We have a principle and a rule and that is, it’s better to be alive without a marriage than to die because of marriage,” Enenche stated.
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