Death "Gift" From Supreme Court For Notorious Rev. King on His Birthday by Felix N. Jarikre.

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“Daddy, you are the light of the world. A nation without you is in total darkness. Life without you is miserable, bored and of no value. Your birth has brought salvation to mankind. You are our shield and buckler, a home of refuge in time of trouble...

“You are our King and must continue to remain our king forever. No amount of conspiracy, gossips, scandals levelled against you can change our heart from following you because we know that you are 100% innocent of the false allegation levelled against you.” – The Daughters of the Kingdom of God.

“Daddy G.O., you have been a blessing to our families, without you, our lives had been meaningless, empty, without purpose and direction. Daddy G.O., you are indeed the God of impossibility, the great healer, the great man in battle, you are our light and salvation, you are the everlasting father, the way, the truth and the life, you are the great provider, you are the anointed one, you are the prince of peace, you are the vanquisher of demons..

“His Holiness, surely whoever that trusted upon you shall never be put to shame. Live forever for us.” – Anonymous 

The above excerpts were taken from advertisements placed in some national newspapers by followers of Chukwuemeka Ezeugo ( aka Rev. King), General Overseer of the Christian Praying Assembly, Ikeja, Lagos, to mark his birthday. The lofty sentiments used to eulogize this jailed cleric, would have been deemed outrageous and blasphemous in a saner situation; but it is doubtful if the object of this laughable eulogy had ever allowed himself to operate in a sane environment other than where his followers’ thoughts were oppressed, bewitched and delusional.

From the stories that came out after Rev. King was arrested by the Nigerian police in connection with the murder of Ann Uzoh, and attempted murder of five other members, it was clear the pastor had always passed himself off as the “Most High God” who was above accountability and transparency before mere mortals. His words were laws. He could do no wrong.  Mere mortals, members of his fiefdom masquerading as a church, trembled and knelt in self-abnegation, who were fortunate  to have an audience with him.

Considering that his birthday of February 26^th, 2016 was also the day the Supreme Court would hand down the judgement  over his appeal, it is not outlandish to speculate that the birthday advertisements, in a grand scheme, were meant to influence the thinking of the eminent judges, and prod them to give a favourable judgement to Rev. King, the “God of possibility and Vanquisher of demons.”

Indeed, one of the sect’s leaders, Rev. Elijah King, in 2013, had threatened that Nigeria should be prepared to face dire consequences if Rev. Ezeugo was expired by hanging. If our eminent judges read all this, they didn’t bother to let us know. Trained and bound to decide on a matter by the facts of a case alone, they told us that indeed Rev. King deserved to die by hanging, upholding the verdict of Justice Olubunmi Oyewole on January 11, 2007 who convicted and sentenced him on each of the five counts of attempted murder to 20 years; and death sentence for murder at the Lagos High Court, Ikeja.

Rev. King Ezeugo had challenged the verdict of the Lagos Division of the Appeal Court which affirmed the conviction and death sentence passed on him by the Lagos High Court. A five-man bench of the Supreme Court, in its unanimous judgement led by Justice Walter Onnoghen dismissed Ezeugo’s appeal. 

The judgement dealt a sharp ultimate blow on Ezeugo’s last effort to deliver himself from the death sentence hanging around his neck for over nine years. Justice Sylvester Ngwuta, reading the lead judgement, in his opening remarks, said: “The fact of this case could have been lifted from a horror film. At all material times, both parties agreed that the appellant was General Overseer of Christian Praying Assembly, Ikeja, Lagos. It was also agreed that he had a father-son and father-daughter relationship with the victims of the incident.

“The prosecution’s case was that the appellant accused six of his people of immoral behaviour. He called them together, beat each of them with many hard objects and after the beating, he assembled them downstairs, made them to kneel down and he caused petrol to be poured on them and a struck match thrown on them.

“They all sustained various degrees of burns. While five of them escaped, the sixth of them who later died sustained 65 percent degree burns. You can imagine her last day in the hospital.

“Appellant denied this incident, saying though he punished them for immoral behaviour, the punishment was different from the incident that gave birth to this charge.

“He said they sustained injuries when a generator exploded. That was his case. But throughout the proceedings, the mysterious generator was never produced.”

It boggles the mind to think of the kind of supercilious morality which seized Ezeugo that got him so enraged to the extent of pouring petrol on a woman’s body and setting her on fire because she was alleged to have fornicated.  How deluded is he to think he could evade questioning and accountability for his dastardly, unconscionable behaviour? 

What’s the kind of seed capable of producing preachers like Rev. King in the evil tradition of Jim Jones who cajoled and forced around 900 people to drink poison in a mass suicide in Guyana? 

It must be said that there are lots of psychopaths and pathological liars today who use the pastoral pulpits to cover their insecurity. They are manipulative and crafty. The idea they could not be challenged and held to account for their ugly behaviours is a false notion they are happy to propagate.  But they cannot hide for very long.

That Ezeugo is going to die by hanging is a sign that the time of reckoning is not far for many.