Growing up in Ajegunle, my dream was to become a thug. While other kids were aspiring to be Lawyers, Doctors or Pilots, I wanted to be somebody that would be feared. I would fight every day and I even went as far as beating up people’s mums, anytime they came to ask what I did to their kids.
On the 28th of April, 1997 something happened. I was invited to a prayer group called Jesus Campaigners by Christiana Essien. I felt strange. I’d never been in a gathering of orderly people. I saw young people speaking English and speaking in tongues. Up until my SS1, I couldn’t speak English at all, only Pidgin.
After 5 minutes, I wanted to leave, but the next thing I remember was people gathered around me and I was crying profusely. That was when I knew something had happened to me. Nobody preached Jesus to me; I had a personal encounter with him.
I started gathering kids that used to run away from me, and began to preach to them. I went to every mother I had insulted and slapped to apologise and ask for forgiveness. I changed my friends and joined a music group.
Today I am a music minister, a graduate of Olabisi Onabanjo University and I’m also married to a beautiful wife and expecting to be a father soon.