The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Enoch Adeboye, has shared a divine revelation regarding the tragic abduction of pupils and teachers in Oyo State.
The incident, which occurred on May 15, involved gunmen kidnapping approximately 32 individuals from Community High School, Ahoro-Esiele, Primary School, Esiele, and Yawota Baptist Nursery and Primary School in the Oriire Local Government Area.
The ordeal took a horrific turn when the captors beheaded one of the victims, a mathematics teacher named Michael Oyedokun, and circulated a video of the act.
Speaking at the US-Nigeria Faith Heroes Award Gala, organized by the Save Nigeria Group in Washington, D.C., on June 23, the 84-year-old cleric addressed the public criticism he and other faith leaders faced regarding the effectiveness of their prayers during the crisis.
“I was compelled to cry unto God because we have been fasting and praying for a particular group of school children who were captured. The kidnappers felt that the government was not reacting fast enough to give them the money they asked for, and they slaughtered their teacher and showed the video to the rest of the world,” he recounted.
Addressing the skepticism of those who questioned the efficacy of his fasting and prayer, Pastor Adeboye described his encounter with the divine during a period of intense personal anguish.
“Some people then began to speak, challenging those of us who said we had been praying. They said, ‘You are fasting, you are praying, where is your God?’ So I went to the Lord in prayer, in deep agony. I said, ‘Father, you have heard them. They said, ‘Where is our God?’ And then God spoke to me. He told me that the release of the children is going to be dramatic.”
Concluding his remarks, the cleric shared that he received further assurance from God that a specific plan for the liberation of the remaining captives would be revealed, maintaining a stance of hope amidst the ongoing national tragedy.
