ECWA 'Pastor slumps, dies while preaching against money ritual in Ogun

By Adetutu Adesanya

 Fear on Sunday gripped worshippers of the Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA), Onikoko, Abeokuta, Ogun State, as a Deacon of the Church was reportedly slumped and died while preaching.

The Deacon, Chief Francis Oluwole Ogunnusi, was the Baale of Onikoko community, in Panseke area of Abeokuta.

It was gathered that Ogunnusi was at the pulpit on Sunday preaching against the ‘get-rich-quick’ syndrome that has become the order of the day in different parts of the country.

In a video sighted by our correspondent, the Deacon warned those killing people and drinking human blood to get rich, saying when they die, the money would be taken by another person.

Speaking in Yoruba, the late Deacon, said, “The money you make through unlawful and diabolical means, killing people, sucking human blood; when death comes, it will belong to another person.”

However, when the interpreter was still trying to present the words in English language, the man suddenly fell with the microphone in his hand.

This led to commotion in the church hall as people ran to carry him to the hospital.

A member of the church, who spoke under the condition of anonymity, said the man was rushed to the Federal Medical Centre, Idi-Aba, Abeokuta, where he was pronounced dead.

“The man was not the pastor of the church. He was just an elder. He was the Baale of Onikoko. But he was the one that delivered the sermon on that Sunday".

“He was talking about death and people who make money by killing other people. All of a sudden, he collapsed. He was rushed to the FMC, but he died. We don't know what happened. I was very scared. Everything was disrupted. We just shared the grace and went home,” the worshipper said.

"I don't know whether or not the man had any health challenge, before his sudden death on Sunday, but he must be between 60 and 70 years".

It was gathered that the church at Onikoko is the headquarters of ECWA in Ogun State.

The lifeless body of Chief Ogunnusi has been deposited in the mortuary, it was gathered.