A church evangelist, Francis Ogunnusi, has died suddenly while preaching against money rituals in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital.
The evangelist, while preaching at the Evangelical Church Winning All, was said to be speaking on money ritual and cursing those engaging in it to be wary of the consequences.
Ogun State has in recent times come to be notorious for money rituals with many cases of arrests and mysterious deaths.
Until his death, he was said to be the local chief (Baale) of Onikoko, Panseke area of the capital city.
A source at the church which gave the age of the preacher as between 60 and 70, said immediatey he slumped, he was taken to the Federal Medical Centre, Idiaba, where he was certified dead.
The source said, “The man was not the pastor of that church; he was just an elder. He was the Baale of Onikoko. He was the one that delivered the sermon on Sunday.
“He was talking about death and people who made money by killing other people. All of a sudden, he collapsed. He was rushed to the FMC, where he died. We don’t know what happened. I was very scared. Everything was disrupted. We just said the grace and went home.”