It was indeed a baptism of fire when
a 25-year-old prayer warrior with a Pentecostal church went berserk and bathed
a 15-year-old girl with Holy Ghost hot water.
The incidence which
occurred in the
commercial city of Onitsha, Anambra state came as a shock to the neighbors and
co tenant.
The self acclaimed ‘powerful woman’
of God who is currently cooling her heels in the police cell at the Central
Police Station, Onitsha, went on the rampage in the early hours of Thursday at
No 3, Idoko Street, Onitsha, pouring hot water on the unsuspecting girl,
Chiemeri Onuegbu.
Onuegbu received the baptism of hot
water when she was doing some laundering alongside other children in the
compound where the suspect resided. The girl was immediately rushed to a
private hospital along Modebe Road, Onitsha, where doctors are currently
battling to save her life. Narrating the incidence, the victim’s aunt, Mrs.
Josephine Anyaegbu, said Chiemeri just came on holidays and was attacked by the
prayer warrior who lived with her younger sister in the security house in the
compound. “Nobody knows her name.
She came and lived with her younger
sister called Charity in the security gate at the entrance of the compound.
Every day she will lock herself inside the house and be shouting ‘Holy Ghost
fire.’ One day I went to find out if she was okay, she came out and was
speaking a strange language. “Then yesterday, my children and my niece were
outside washing clothes because we are living in the flat on the ground floor.
Suddenly she tip-toed and splashed hot water on the children but Chimmeri was
bending down, backing her.
That was perhaps her saving grace
because she was spattered the hot water from behind, burning her back and her
neck.” Mrs. Anyegbu further disclosed that after the first attack, the suspect
went in to boil more water. She then came out of the house with a knife,
chasing everybody in the compound before passersby were alerted and the youths
wrestled with and disarmed her.
“When she was not satisfied with the
first attack, she went inside and put another kettle and started boiling hot
water. She came out with knife and started pursuing me around the compound and
my son that went to confront her was hit with a heavy stone in the back and he
fell down before people came to our rescue,” she said. Anyaegbu also said when
the suspect carried out the first attack; she was shouting Holy Ghost fire!
Holy Ghost fire!! Which made them believe she was praying as usual.
She never suspected possible hot
water attack until she saw her niece writhing in pains. Meanwhile, the suspect
who was immediately disarmed by the youths in the neighbourhood was taken to
the Central Police Station, Onitsha, where she is currently being detained but
could not make any coherent explanation about her act. When asked why she
attacked the victim, she could not give any useful answer but said, “I am a
powerful woman. I command men and women and my name is Christ and Glory.”
Anambra State Police Public Relations
Officer (PPRO), Mr. Ralph Uzoigwe, said he had not received full details about
the incident but a senior police officer who pleaded anonymity said the police
would take the suspect to a psychiatric hospital to determine the state of her
health before further action would be taken
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