WHEN I wrote “Pastors and the witchcrafting of mothers” (September 17, 2022), I had no idea I would be touching on this same issue so soon. But here we are. In case you missed the story of the 86-year-old woman set blaze by her daughter in Ondo State, this week, here’s the gist.
The woman’s 45-year-old daughter simply identified as Abiodun (aka Iya Sunday) offered her mother as a burnt offering to her pastor-god at their residence in Surulere, Ondo. Abiodun’s pastor had given her the spiritual intelligence that the deceased was behind her spiritual problems! Hear the werey: “I went to my mother’s house around 4 a.m.
and sat outside. When it was 5 a.m.
, I called out my mother from the house. Immediately after she came out, not knowing what was happening, I poured petrol on her and set her on fire. What cause this is that I went to a pastor for prayer and he told me that my mother was behind what was happening to me.
My mother also took me somewhere to see a woman. After my mother left, the woman also said the same thing. I burnt my mother because of what I heard from the pastor and the woman: that I could only be free from bondage when my mother is dead.
” The Ondo State Police spokesperson, Funmilayo Odunlami-Omisanya, said the 86-year-old died in the hospital she was rushed to. You may, in a fit of rage, load this accursed woman with expletives, but she is just like millions of churchgoers whose brains have been on holiday since they climbed the stairways of t.
