Testimony

Liberia: The danger of preaching true Gospel under Pres. Taylor

James Fasuekoi

A special testimony from Rev. Mot. Precious Dagadu from CEPC’s headquarters in Bushrod Island, Liberia.

By James Kokulo Fasuekoi|Editor-Publisher

Former guerrilla war fighter and ex-President Charles M. Taylor, speaks to the mass media a day after he and his entourage enter Liberia’s capital in 1995, to join an interim government following years of waging a bush war.

Liberia’s former dictator and ex-warlord, Mr. Charles Taylor didn’t by any means make life easier for those who opposed him: not even for rival politicians or fellow ex-warlords for instance, like Gen. Rosevelt Johnson, Gen. Alhaji G.V. Kromah, or CRC’s co-founder Sam Dokie. 

Neither was life comfortable for any tough-speaking national evangelists during Taylor’s six-year rule, so much so that long after the combined rebel forces of LURD/MODEL forced him out of power, testimonies of his regime’s ruthlessness are still emerging.

On Sunday, May 31, 2026, one such testimony came from Rev. Precious JL Dagadu (MILP) about how ex-President Taylor, she said, dispatched a group of heavily armed men to arrest her husband one night, Rev. Dr. Christian K. Dagadu Sr. It was the first time she’d publicly testified about their encounter with soldiers of Taylor’s dreaded Anti-Terrorist Unit. 

A Resident Pastor for Christian Evangelistic Pentecostal Church (CEPC), located in Bushrod Island, Monrovia, Rev. Precious, a well-known preacher, maintained that it started after Rev. Dagadu Sr. preached a “message” that didn’t go down well with Mr. Taylor.

CEPC’s Resident Pastor, Mother Rev. Precious JL Dagadu MILP

“My husband had preached some kind of message at the time Pres. Taylor was in power. The message was too bold, and the men of God were saying, ‘Papay,’ we will  pray for you!” she explained.

“So he [Rev. Dagadu] said, yes, your pray for me… But God told me to say it so I said it,” she told the audience. The church was jam-packed and delegates from other branches like Kakata and Gbarnga were present as well.

For Rev. Dr. Dagadu Sr., a powerful evangelist and a deliverance minister, there’s no topic off-limits when it comes to giving God’s message: from corruption, witchcraft, abortion and deviant cultural practices, and how they attract curses, not leaving out the Poro and the Masonic-he has preached on all. 

After Dr. Dagadu’s message, nights came along and days went by and everything seemed calmed, she exclaimed. 

And then, terror came to the family’s Congo Town home one night, she remembered.

“It was very late that night. And then I started to hear some sound around and when I looked outside, this pickup had come near the fence. And I saw men fully armed, jumping over the fence, taking position in the yard.” 

She said she alerted her husband Dagadu Sr., a reserved individual, and from that moment their exchanges with the intruders went this way:

“Then my husband said, “J”, let me leave the house because I am their target!” (“J” is Pastor Dagadu’s affectionate style of calling his wife since they met some 45 years ago). 

“If they come in the house and see me they will threaten the children and may hurt somebody,” Dr. Dagadu said, according to her.

Rev. Christian K. Dagadu Jr. sashes his mother, Rev. Precious JL Dagadu last Sunday, during the CEPC’s Mother’s Day celebration. The church celebrated Mother Precious Dagadu and all of the women in CEPC throughout Liberia.

“I said, you are not going anywhere. Stay here,” she went on.

“So I went and I drew my curtains and I say, ‘Your hello’.  “And  what your doing here?”

Taylor’s men: “Oh, they sent us to come for the pastor…” 

Rev. Precious: “And I said, at this time of the night?” As she spoke a pin-drop silence engulfed the entire sanctuary.

“They sent ‘your’ for pastor and your jumping over my fence?” she inquired again.

“He’s not coming anywhere!” she said she insisted.  Most of  Taylor’s bodyguards were typically elementary or high school drop outs so Rev. Precious used their style of speaking to get her point across. 

Rev. Precious again: “And they said, Oh he’s not coming?” “And I said, ‘He’s not coming!” 

Taylor’s men: “But they sent us for the man.” 

Rev. Precious: “And I said, “He’s not going anywhere!”

“If your want to see him at the break of day, he will be brought there but he’s not coming anywhere.”

Eventually Taylor’s bodyguards left and they never returned.

Mother Precious walks in the Spirit and said she had been led by the Holy Spirit act the way she did and warned young Christians not to do so in any precarious situation unless they are led by the Spirit.

Her theme, Mother, Thank You for My Survival, was drawn from Exodus 2:1-10, which expounds on the daring decision taken by Moses’ own mother at the time Pharaoh passed an order to kill all the Hebrew boy children. 

In addition, Rev. Precious’ sermon also reflected the high risks that mothers are accustomed to enduring even at the peril of their own lives just to protect their families as it was in her case here.

Editor’s Note: Rev. Mother Precious Dagadu’s sermon was streamed live and can be found on her husband’s social media page.  Rev. Dr. Christian K. Dagadu Sr. in banner photograph.

ADVERTISE YOUR CHURCH’S EVENTS WITH US!