By BANNERNEWS Reporter, Calabar
My name is Uneke Henry. I am from Ugoni village in Obosi community of Ohazara Local Government Area of Ebonyi Stste. I am 47 years old. I stopped at JSS3. I am from a well-to-do family though. My siblings are comfortable.
But I have been a very terrible persons since childhood. I did countless terrible things almost all my life. I have been into killings, armed robbery, cultism, thuggery, kidnapping, drug abuse and all other crimes. As a drug addict, name any type of substances and I have consumed them all in sufficient dozes.
I took pleasure in killing and making people to cry. Everything that makes a man to cry gave me joy then. I did these terrible things all my life! I have never done anything positive.
I had several assorted guns. I just had to throw them away when the all-powerful Spirit-Being, Olumba Olumba Obu arrested me. I have no need of them anymore.
I had joined terrible gangs. I was actually the former head of The New Movement of Africa, a.k.a. Black Cats, a very dangerous gang. I belonged to many Temples. I was a former Butcher who took final decisions about who should die or kept alive.
I will not remember how many people I have killed but certainly they are many. Some are those I masterminded and killed on my own. Others are those I was sent to go and kill while others are those that died during cross-fire. I was like a robot. “Go and kill” and I will courageously go and kill as many as I would be asked to eliminate!.
And with much influences of substances, I could kill as if I was killing flies.
Several times, some authorities even hired extraordinary people like us to help quell communal insurrections in their states as members of civilian joint taskforce.
I have just started to think and do positive things around early March 2026 when I was captured by the most powerful divine Being – Olumba Olumba Obu.
I came in contact with His Holiness Olumba Olumba Obu while I served my time, nine years, in the Enugu State Maximum and Security Prison.
So after seven years in that prison, I thought I had served for too long. I then had to mastermind a jailbreak myself on 29 July 2009. Many escaped. I could not but sustained several gun shots. Till date, I have a broken Tibia bone, broken fingers, broken knees, countless indelible marks as a result of severe beatings and gun shots in different operations.
I know it was the will of the Father that I could not escape during that jailbreak.
64 inmates were killed as a result of that attempt. The impact of that jailbreak affected Enugu as a state. That infamous jailbreak was widely reported, and recorded as the worst so far. We did not rely on outside supports but we the inmates did it ourselves. It attracted national attention.
I was not a mere criminal before I got into prison. I was a dare devil. I was notorious and connected. Some prison officials who dared me paid dearly for it. I would use my connections and influence outside the prison and send boys to attack, or even eliminate them.
I had an uncle, late Samuel Eke, who left for Cameroon for greener pastures many years ago but was infected with terrible ailments. He was taken round Cameroon and elsewhere to no avail. He was referred to meet Olumba Olumba Obu all the way in Cameroon. When he was brought to Calabar, he was cured instantly.
To reciprocate his own healing and Leader Olumba Olumba Obu’s goodness to him, he decided to bring Brotherhood of the Cross and Star into my village in 1979.
My grand father who was the traditional ruler, gave him the land to build the BCS Bethel the same way he gave Presbyterian Church and Scotland Mission church.
That my uncle started the BCS worship with his immediate family members. Later, others including his bosom friends and relatives joined.
I am recalling this to show that I am not exactly a total stranger to the BCS. The Bethel was not far from my family house. Even though I was not a member then, I could follow their style of worship and conversant with some BCS songs. However, it was their feast time that was most attractive to me.
I have always been hardened and extremist to the course I decide on. That same extremism will now apply now that the appointed time has come to work for God. And the almighty God has actually shown why He took me through such dare devil paths these four+plus decades to behold Him.
Since my baptism two months ago, I have seen no need to return to my house. I enjoy total peace and happiness staying in BCS Bethels.
On how the Father led me to BCS, one fateful day, one BCS member by name Christ Ambassador Amaka visited the prison for evangelism.
I was on my own in the prison, studying the Holy Bible. I always do that. I never knew it was the Father who was preparing me for today. The Bible says “God knows the beginning from the ending, and ending from the beginning…”
Many other churches did come to visit us. But when Amaka and her team came something unusual pulled me to listen to her.
During her ministration, the prophesy which my late uncle gave me over ten years before, came back to life. The prophesy was that the only place I will find peace and salvation shall be in BCS. I never took him seriously. But he persisted, saying the Father directed him to visit and relay the message to me.
So when I had this flash back, I listened to Amaka. Her message was raw, and totally different from what the churches come with.
As Father brought me into BCS, I have seen remarkable difference both in my life and the practical teaching obtainable. I have seen love and unity in practice.
By the time the Father arrested me I had become exhausted, depressed, confused. I tried several times to take my own life to no avail. I now believe that it was not His will because of the evangelical task He has set before me.
I need to recall here that my family had expended over N11 Million at a rehabilitation center just for me to be a human being.
So for four days, I did not remember food; I was not hungry. I did not remember that food was an essential part of life. I was being tormented both physically and spiritually.
I could not feel myself. The best solution was to take my own life. After all, what was I living for? Who was I living to impress, no house, no child, no peace, no hope.. no family member was ready to identify with me because of how terrible I was!
Following all the confusion in my life, restlessness and trauma, I called my mother who appeared to be the only human being with a care for me. I needed to confront her; to ask perhaps the family had used and damaged my spirit. I needed to identify one person who must have been responsible for my recklessness and lack of peace.
The poor, quiet and spirit -filled woman; a lovely mother who kept praying for me to change for good, said she could swear on behalf of my late father that nobody had tampered with my spirit.
She assured me that some day soon I was going to be fine. Despite her assurance, I still went to attempt suicide. Truly, I was tired of life. I went, tied a rope to a tree and as I put my neck, the rope cut.
As that attempt failed, I moved to a construction site where the wicked voice said to me ‘here are concrete stones, pick three and hit your head the hardest way. And what you want will happen..’. Then I broke down and wept.
Then I made up my mind to go to BCS Asata Bethel on Lagos Street in Enugu.
When the Keke (Tricycle rider) stopped in front of the Bethel, he said to me whatever is your problem, God will solve it for you at the place.
I rushed into the Bethel, sweating. I asked a woman who was coming out to kindly lead me to the priest in charge of the Bethel. I was taken to Christ Ambassador Benedict Abua.
In a hurry, I told him my life story and how depressed, confused, devastated, traumatic I had become, which led to the attempted suicide.
Abua directed me to move into the Bethel, kneel before the lower Altar, confess and knocked my head on the ground three times.
I did. And I wanted to stand up. He commanded me to kneel longer. This was the first time somebody will command me.
When he was done with the long prayer, he sprinkled water over me. He asked me to lay down in between the benches and sleep, assuring that the Holy Spirit will work on me.
Remember these four days, I have not eaten any foods yet I was still not hungry. I dozed off.
I had a dream where the light which was shining in the bethel dimmed. Thereafter, I was seeing all sizes of people who could not be differentiated. Then I began to hear thick echos which turned into melodious songs. The songs were not in English language. I love Music. I’m a composer. The melodious songs gradually brightened the room.
When I woke, I was pressed and needed to visit the toilet. My system was evacuated and cleansed. And the nauseating odour stuck to the environment for two days.
The priest fed me without bothering to know where I came from, who my family were or the costs of accommodating me. I was relaxed.
But one of thing was that I began to be scared. I was harbouring some fears. This is me who had sold my conscience and fears long ago.
I had worked with most politicians in the southeast Nigeria as their political thug and nobody had dared me. Name any one of them, and they could not harm me when the relationships would go soar over payments.
Now after Brother Abua baptised me into BCS, those things that gave me joy are no longer important to me. They no longer gave me joy.
How will my family members actually believe this miracle God has done in my life? I believe that with time it is the Holy Spirit that will tell them that this is no longer that daredevil son of theirs.
I am now very ready to convert such energies I wrongly applied to evangelise for God. Nobody else would have been so capable to arrest and change me from the very negative human being I was, except the all-powerful Spirit-Being, Olumba Olumba Obu.
I have told people to equally refrain. If my Maker and God has decided to make peace with me and change me, who are you to persist in negativity. What is turning out in my life is totally incomprehensible.
I now feel very good and at home, and ready to begin my actual mission on earth.
I do not however regret my previous actions because God used me to eliminate unwanted elements.
