Founder of the Living Faith Church Worldwide, also known as Winners Chapel, Bishop David Oyedepo, has placed curses on the killers of a resident pastor of the church in Romi New Extension, a suburb of Kaduna, Jeremiah Omolewa.
Omolewa was travelling with his wife and son to Abuja last Sunday when he was shot dead.
While his son escaped, the gunmen took his wife into the forest while her abductors later contacted the family of the victim to demand a ransom of N50 million.
She was released on Thursday.
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Reacting during one of the church prayer sessions on Thursday, Oyedepo charged the congregation to pray against the killers just as he declared that their end had come.
“Just last Sunday night, for those of us who may have heard the news, one of our pastors was hacked down by Fulani herdsmen from Abuja to Kaduna.
“I want you to know, that it’s the last they will do because I am going to lead you now to release the curse of God upon his assailants and all their backers.
“Except I am not sent, their end has come. This evil system will crash. And I am speaking as a prophet, not as a pastor, like somebody walking on the street. This evil system that has no value for life, this wicked system – Fulani demons: In the name of Jesus, their end has come.
“Cursed be these Fulani herdsmen, cursed be their generations, cursed be their sponsors in the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus Christ, we have cursed,” he said.
Meanwhile, the widow of the pastor, Oluwakemi, who was kidnapped after her husband was killed, has been set free by her abductors following the payment of an undisclosed sum of money as ransom.
Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in Kaduna State, Reverend Joseph Hayab, said Mrs. Omolewa was freed on Thursday night.
Hayab disclosed that in the last four years, the Christian community in the state had paid over N300 million as ransom to kidnappers, while more than 500 Christians were abducted within the same period.
The CAN chairman added that over 20 churches, especially those located in communities lining the Kaduna-Abuja road have been closed as people living in those villages had since relocated following the activities of kidnappers and other criminals.
The Kaduna CAN chairman said: “Generally, people in Kaduna State have suffered a lot in paying kidnappers ransom to ensure the release of their family members or church members or neighbours or someone they know.
“It is sad to know that the church alone, from our statistics – ECWA Church, Baptist Church, Anglican Church, Catholic Church and many other churches in Kaduna whose members have been kidnapped, have had to cough out between N200,000 to N8 million to kidnappers to secure their release.
“In the last four years, the church in Kaduna has paid over N300 million to kidnappers.”
According to him, the most recent and embarrassing of such payments of ransoms was that of a pastor of Friendship Church Kudenda, a suburbs of Kaduna which the kidnappers insisted that the N600,000 ransom they agreed to collect after negotiation, must be accompanied with cigarettes worth N10,000.
Hayab lamented that in Kachia, a Reverend Father was abducted and a ransom of N1.5 million was paid but he was not released since three months ago, and regretted that it was “an indication that he may have been killed.”
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