The Untold Story of Osinach Nwachukwu - Onyeji Nnajir w

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If you are current with the Nigerian Daly news you would have heard that the husband of the glorious voice springing from Dunamis head quarters Abuja, Mr. Nwachukwu, has been sentenced to hanging by Justice Njideka  Nwosu on the 28th of April, 2025. 

BBC News of 29 April, 2025 reported the verdict as follow, 

"They accused her husband, Peter Nwachukwu, of abusing the music artist, which ultimately led to her death. A judge convicted him of 23 charges, including culpable homicide, and gave him the maximum sentence for the crime." He was sentenced to death by hanging and N700,000 fine.

The True Story

Mr. Peter Nwachukwu, as his full name goes, was born into the family of Nwachukwu in Nnewi South Local Government Area of Anambra State, on the 7th day of July, 1960.  He was a full-time business man based in Abuja. There he lived until his marriage in 2012. For according to the BBC and Wikipedia, Osinachi Nwachukwu was married to her husband in the year 2012. They both attended Dunamis church headed by the firebrand tongue-twisting vocal pastor, Dr. Paul Enenche.

Peter was introduced to another lifestyle as the head of a home; the very thing he had laboured for years to have a good one. He actually found peace and happiness with his submissive wife. This was the comfort he sought for over 50 years. 

Life was moving well and the family was happy. There was no case of malhandling or infidelity recorded against any of the partmers for these years. In fact, the marriage was sweet. Older pictures of the couple that surfaced on the internet proves this assertion correct.

Suddenly there came a call claimed to be of God. This call brought a sword into the happy home. The call made one of the partner more relevant to the said God, while the other remained on the background. Unfortunately, this God's call did not come to Peter who had been the man of the outside, instead it went to Osinachi who had already got the job of keeping a home. At this point, things began to fall apart. 

To be used of God, in the Nigerian context, is usually that one must abandon everything and be ready for use anytime his ministration is needed, whatever prior roles before the call notwithstanding. Osinach would go to church earlier than other members of her family so as to minister whenever she was needed. Mr. Nwachukwu had to assume the role of his wife, preparing the children for service and other things that followed. Many of the times there were meetings which kept her from returning to the house at time due. The husband bore all these moment of abandonment, sometimes at night, yet the spirit-fill pastor did not know that -that very God's call was becoming harmful.

The matter started from midnight complaints and later degenerated into open quarrel. This was the time, according to the children testimony, it became obvious that the falcon could not hear the falconer any longer. And because Peter Nwachukwu was the person feeling the situation harshly, his voice was always on top. To the children, nothing was understood other than this, "Papa was quarreling Mummy". Whatever the crux of the matter was gave them no reason. Occasionally, during these chattery periods, Osinachi would send out the usual women pretentious cry. When this happened the children concluded, " Daddy was beating Mummy '.

With all these taking place: the silent complaints, the open confrontations, and the dreaded cry that alerted neighbours, Osinach still maintained her punctuality in church activities. When she told her family story, nobody saw anything wrong with her God-calling attitudes that had thrown her peaceful family apart. Not even the pastor did; yet his own wife was always been at his corner. Everybody saw Nwachukwu as a monster and a devil incarnate who had come to quench the fire on his wife. It was to bring her under control that led Nwachukwu into beating her to see if she could return to her senses, but she didn't. 

I came from a polygamous family with my mum as the last wife. I know what submition is for a traditional Igbo society. It is usually considered abominable for a married woman to go out at night without her husband. I am also aware that it is traditionally wrong for a wife to cook very late at night. I have sisters but only my mother had the obligatory role of setting food in front of my father. She could not do this in her absence. Then imagine, from birth till 2014 when dad died, there had never been any story of malhandling any of his wives. Why would he do so when everybody knew their boundaries? 

This is the side of the Osinachi's story nobody wants to speak about. Everybody concluded that she was killed by her husband. Anybody with brain in his scull should ask why someone would marry the wife he would kill or intentionally kill the wife he married? We might say he did it by mistake. But did he actually kill the wife? Was he even responsible for Osinachi's demise? I think not. I read Paul Enenche on the news raining fire and brimstone in the view that justice must be done about Osinachi's killing. He, a man of God, did not rember forgiveness again, neither did he listen to the statement released as the autopsy result. "The autopsy report on Osinachi showed no signs of physical abuse. The report attributed her death to "generalized organ pallor, bilateral leg swelling, fluid in the sac around the heart, tumor deposits in the heart, lungs, and kidneys, a massively enlarged heart, and fluid around the lungs that restricted breathing". Specifically, the report indicated that the cause of death was cardiac tamponade, which is the accumulation of fluid around the heart, and other related factors. "

You can Google the autopsy result online and see for yourself. Osinachi did not have any evidence of Physical abuse as the court claimed ultimately as being "prolonged", according to the verdict. She died of cancer. Her endless fasting and gross activities that gave her no time to examine herself led to her death. She had the pains but failed to visit the hospital. And why should Nwachukwu be blamed for a person he only had few moments with compared to the unnumbered hours she spent carrying out her ministry. Not even the man of God saw that she was dying to pray for her healing until she gave up the ghost. His hatred for Nwachukwu would not let him see clearly.

Conclusion: 

Be wise! God does not call anybody to disobedience. Any calling that sets you above or equal with your husband cannot come from God. God knows subordination better, and if your pastor will teach you better he should be able to tell you that any form of disobedience to your husband is a huge sin before God. It doesn't matter your reason for being disobedient. I believe that when Nwachukwu is hung, the church and the acclaimed believers who had chanted "justice,! justice!!" will sing glory to the holy God for the death of a fellow. Unless that is done, then there is no justice. Christians will chant justice for a woman who died with no evidence of Physical abuse, but Deborah was murdered in a broad day light, yet the killers move freely in the same country. It is a pity.