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Posted by Thandiubani on Mon 08th Jan, 2018 - tori.ngA Nigerian prophetess, Comfort Ordu has revealed that she warned her family members before their untimely death in the hands of some unknown armed men.
Mrs. Comfort Ordu
Comfort Ordu, a prophetess, might not have known exactly what was amiss as she warned her family members of an impending danger after the family’s prayer session in the early hours of the New Year. It turned out a huge tragedy as gunmen invaded their community and three others in Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area (LGA), killing no fewer than 17 people.
She is full of regrets that in spite of the warning she issued to her family members about an impending danger as was divinely revealed to her, she ended up being a victim, having lost her husband and two children in the early morning shootings.
Austin Ordu, her 51-year-old husband and building engineer whose birthday would have been celebrated on January 10; her two children (15-year-old Wisdom Ordu, an SS 3 student of Hallmark Academy, Omoku and 14-year-old Precious Ordu, an SS 2 student of the same school); Wisdom’s childhood friend named Saviour and Precious’ friend named Favour all lost their lives in the New Year tragedy.
Their guard, Desmond, an indigene of Plateau State, was also not spared in the killings. He was, however, luckier as he was able to recover from his comatose state while others who were shot along with him bled to death before help could come their ways. Desmond recovered from the shootings after two days.
The shooting incident had taken place in Omoku town, Igbada, Uju and Aligu (the home town of the suspected cultist Don Wanney from whose shrine soldiers recovered numerous human skulls and decaying human bodies concealed in shallow graves).
The prophetess believes that if her deceased children had heeded the stay-at-home warning she issued after the family’s New Year prayer session, they would not have gone out in those odd hours to a carnival on their Austin Ordu Street, Ogbohia Agbogwe, and would not have fallen victims to the gunmen’s bullets. The gate to the family’s compound would have been firmly locked and their father would not have met his death while going out to look for them.
Like the biblical saying that a prophet is not honoured at home, the children had ignored the stay-at-home instruction while the love of a father for his children caused their father to go out in company with Desmond in order to bring them back to the house.
Precious and her friend Favour, who had gone with her to the carnival, were said to be returning to the Ordus’ family house and were close to the gate when some gun trotting men snuffed lives off them. The children have since been buried while the remains of their father is still in the morgue.
Speaking with reporters at her Austin Ordu Street where sympathisers were seen trooping in and out the compound and sitting room to console her, she said:
‘I am a prophetess. I have a healing ministry where the sick, and those that are having issues with pregnancy and others with different needs come for God’s help and their problems are solved.
“On that fateful day, December 31, 2017, I gathered the members of my family and prayed with them. After the prayers, which was past midnight, I announced to everybody not to leave the gate that night because there was danger looming in the air. Then I went to bed.
“At about 2 am, I discovered that two of my children, a boy and a girl, were not in the house. I understood they had gone out to a place where other youths had organised a carnival on the street. I requested that someone should go there and bring them back to the house, but I was told that their father had gone to look for them.
“Suddenly, I noticed that one of my sons and my nephew who lives with us ran into the house. Then some persons, six in number, who were dressed in black clothes and black fez cap, walked into the house, saying that government had sent them to come to the house. I quickly dodged and hid myself inside the house, but I overheard everything that they said.
“My cousin who was with us stopped them at the sitting room and interrogated them. She asked who they were and why they were chasing the children. After a moment, I saw them walk out of the house. They probably noticed that there was no other person in the house or they could not find the actual person they were looking for.
The late Austin Ordu
“As they were leaving the gate, they met a boy named Saviour, who was my deceased son’s friend. He had come to invite his friend so they could go to the carnival together. They shot and killed him instantly. While these were happening, I did not know that they had already met and killed my husband, our two children and a friend to my late daughter while they were coming back from the venue of the carnival.”
Asked if the people were killed on their way from the crossover service of that night, she said: “No. My husband had gone to the venue of the carnival just along our street in the company of our gateman, Desmond, an indigene of Plateau State, to look for the children so that they could bring them back. On their way back home, close to our gate, they met the gunmen who shot and killed them instantly.
“But Desmond had not died when we met them, although he was in a critical condition. He was rushed to the hospital where he was in coma for two days. It was on the third day that he came out of coma and could mutter some words. We are trusting the Lord that he will recover fully.”
Asked if the family had issues with anyone, she said there was nothing like that. “We are not involved in politics and we are not in any cult group. I am not in any kind of association. My sole job is to pray for people to get them out of their problems and needs. That is what I am committed to.”
She gave the names and ages of the people the family lost as, Mr. Austin Ordu (51, husband), Wisdom Ordu (15, son), Miss Precious Ordu (14, daughter) and Wisdom and Precious’ friends, Saviour (boy) and Favour (girl).
Speaking further, she said: “As a prophetess, I received the clue of looming danger in the land since early this year, and I have been telling those that come to my ministry, family members and any other person that cared to listen that the just past year was not going to be easy and that the last days of the year was going to be more dangerous.
I said that anyone who escaped the secret plans of the devil and its cohorts in the land (Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni LGA), should be grateful to God, and that everyone should be careful and prayerful to avert the plans.
“I also informed them that secret and silent killers had been paid and they had sneaked into the land. That was why I warned my family members to remain indoor after the crossover prayers so that the evil would completely pass over us. But children, being what they are, did not listen. They were lured outside by the sound of music and the voices and drums playing out from the carnival venue.”
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