Ms Favour Made, elder sister of late Gospel singer, Osinachi Nwachukwu, has explained why the deceased refused to divorce her husband, Peter, whom she accused of killing his wife.
In an interview, Favour said members of their family had told Osinachi to divorce Peter following his alleged beating her, “but she felt that God is against divorce”.
Favour pointed out the last beastly act of Peter to Osinachi, by kicking her on the chest, led to her untimely death and not that she succumbed to throat ulcer.
In her words: “She did not die of cancer. The husband, Mr Peter Nwachukwu hit her with his leg on the chest. All this while, he has been beating her but my sister hides all that she was passing through from us.”
On Osinachi divorcing Peter, Favour added: “We told her that they are not divorcing and that it’s just a separation.
“We told her that separation is not a sin but just for her to stay alive and take care of her children. She will always tell us to relax and that the man will change.
“So when the man kicked her in the chest, she fell down and he took her to the hospital but he did not even tell us.
“It was her friend who lives in Ebonyi state that called her twin sister because Osinachi has a twin sister, to ask, ‘did your Sister tell you that Peter hit her on the chest? the sister then told her no.
“It was the hitting on the chest that killed her. My brother had to ask the doctor what killed her and the doctor said that there were clusters of blood clot on her chest.
“Unfortunately, they did not tell the doctor that she was kicked in the chest because the doctor could have known what to do if he had an idea of what happened.
“Each time we talked to her, she will be pleading for peace and if we move to act, she will tell us no, that we should calm down.”
Osinachi and her husband were living in Abuja, where she died. The marriage produced three boys and one girl.
According to Favour, Osinachi and Peter met during one of her ministrations.
“Nwachukwu saw how my sister was ministering, he then fell in love with her,” she said.
Favour also revealed that Peter has not been arrested.
“My younger brother who had gone to see the children said Nwachukwu is not arrested, he is in his house in Abuja. When my brother got there, the children were so happy to see him and they told him that they want to come and see their grandmother who is my mother.”