How my late wife rescued me from secret societies – Owie

Former Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Rowland Owie weekend said his late wife, Lady Helen Owie’s humility led him out of the several occult groups he belonged to and changed his life from being an “away” father to a “home” father.

Owie stated this when he spoke to journalists at the Benin Airport shortly before the remains of his wife were flown into Benin from Abuja, where she died two weeks ago.

She was received by brothers and sisters of the Knight of St John International, a knighthood group of the Catholic Church.

Owie said he was the only surviving child of his parents out of 11 of them and that his late wife changed his orientation of seeing his home as a hostile environment.

He said “She was a wife, a sister and a mother, she came into my life 51 years ago, she took me from the street to the house; before she came, Motel Benin Plaza was my home, a man that does not have a good home cannot go home because a bad word that comes from a woman’s mouth sends him outside but when she came into my life, within ten years, she removed me from the street; she respected me and built unity among my children, my family and my mother.

“My mother had 11 children who died. I came as number nine; my mother taught me love, and she was a daughter-in-law to my mother who was compassionate; she came to the family to show that compassion.

“When I returned from work and I looked not happy, she would put her hand on my back and say, daddy, what is the matter, relax, everything would be fine

“By the time she came into my life, I belonged to several secret societies. She followed me to four, but each time she was going with me, she would tell my dad, not that she was interested but because she loved me. I would obey before I now left all.

“She was a devotee of the Blessed Virgin Mary; she had no time to quarrel; even when I quarrelled, she would say daddy, ‘forget about it’.

“Forty years of our marriage, we never went to the hospital one day but these last eleven years have been terrible; in the morning, they would say the sugar was high in the afternoon, they would say the sugar was low but I know Blessed Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ will take care of her.” [Vanguard]