The Court of Appeal in Lagos will Friday (today) decide whether or not to quash the death sentence passed on the General-Overseer of the Christian Praying Assembly, Chukwuemeka Ezeugo (aka Rev. King), by a Lagos High Court, Ikeja on January 11, 2007.

The appellate court headed by Justice Amina Augie on November 5, 2012 had heard arguments of parties on the appeal filed by Ezeugo, through his counsel, Mr. Olalekan Ojo.

Ojo had argued that the lower court judge, Justice Joseph Oyewole, who handed down the death sentence, erred in law in many respects.

But the prosecution, represented by the Lagos State Solicitor-General, Mr. Lawal Pedro, (SAN), urged the court to uphold Oyewole’s judgment.

“We urge your Lordships to dismiss this appeal,” Pedro said.

Oyewole had convicted Ezeugo and sentenced him to death by hanging for the alleged murder of a church member, Ann Uzoh.

The cleric was on September 26, 2006, first arraigned on six counts of attempted murder.

The prosecution had said Ezeugo poured petrol on the deceased and five others and set them on fire thereafter.

Uzoh died on August 2, 2006, 11 days after the incident, because of the injuries sustained from the incident.

However, Ojo, in his notice of appeal filed on January 16, 2007, raised 16 grounds of appeal against the judgment.

On June 10, 2008, the appellate court granted him leave to argue additional grounds through an amended notice of appeal filed on June 15, 2008.

At the hearing of the appeal, Ojo, who said Ezeugo did not commit the crime and was not at the scene, noted that Uzoh in two statements before her death had said she sustained the injuries in a generator accident.

He added that Uzoh exonerated Ezeugo in the statements, claiming that the latter was not responsible for her injuries.

Ojo further said there was a third statement in which the deceased was said to have claimed the appellant was the one who ordered petrol to be poured on her, thereby contradicting the first two statements.

Source: Punch

OMG, WTF is this man still alive? I know he will be released soon and maybe asked to pay 750k. SMH for this nation.

na waaa oooo

Dis man need to be sentenced to death by hanging or firing squad any oda judgement outside this gat some ojoro!!!!

The same mercy he showed on others should be showed on him. Its as simple as that.

Remove his tooth Jaw

inurmind: The same mercy he showed to others should be showed to him. Its as simple as that.

Amen!

our many years case now? I thot he's bin sentenced already....

Nawah 4 our judiciary form of activities oo....

Letz c wat goes next,nah adjournment go follow am again

God have mercy

Poor man don suffer for this country.

So this man is still alive.
Our judiciary is pathetic.

So dis case is still in court ?

[b]THis mudafuka should be made to die! I know humans have no right to kill but this dude should die!
I had neighbors, back then, I had two neighbors in our house, fellow tenants, they literally worshipped this dude. One had a bus, he decorated it with this man's face all over it

Rev King, his eminence, his all powerful, doctor, high lawyer, nurse and shit like that

He brainwashed them niggas, I saw their lifestyle, I was witnessing how they got turned into mumus.
THose guys were turned to his vegetables.

It was after he was arrested, it was then that his brainwashing ended. And their eyes were opened. THey began to confess all the stuff the man did.
Can you imagine? A human bowing to another human, because he calls himself a pastor
If rev King points at you and says your mother is a witch then she is so. And if he says "drag your wife into my quarters for anointing" then you must.
And blood will always be mopped out of his office, after he has beaten hemoglobin demons out of you.

One of those ladies was on her way to his house, she too was going to receive his "blessings", it was there she heard that "his eminence" has bathed his "knights or watever they called them" with fuel and he had fried them with the power the anointing, out of anger. Sounds like something a man of gods would do!

Pitiful! Just pitiful! When humans shall be blinded by their own kind! [/b]

Dem kill, dem no kill am, no concern me! I no dey go him church

This wicked reverend still dey alive? I beg sentence him to death by hanging for the alleged murder of a church member..

Na this kind people dey spoil the name of christian pastor's in nigeria!! Dis man is a native doctor not a pastor!! They should just silent his case!!

Rev. king...na only God knw the truth.

how was he involved in the incident in the first place. I need the full gist.

after how many years.our judiciary really need to sit up.

uzeba: .

WTF is this?

i think say ds man don die. why all these long years of arguement.

They should just merc For d dis. Pastor beside poeple still atend is church...

Why dem nver kill am since?i knw dey r stil goin 2 release him and he wil continue whr he stopped,mayb by den nah patience jonathan he go pour acid.nah den dey wil take him serious.

Rev. King

Lets wait and see what the judge will do today,whether she will give Ezeugo option of fine or not. And i advise that justice should be let to take place or else nemesies follow. To the judge,'Judge righteously and God will bless U'. The convict is evil and we have his kind today in our country. Their sins shall find them out some day. Yesterday we read in Nairaland of another so-called Pastor who threatened to kill his church accountant with gun because of church money. Wolves in cheep clothings.

Honestly, I thought this man had been killed since. What are they waiting for?

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kalunomics: WTF is this?

u are to fast to see people fault!! U should have waited to see wat i want to type!!

so this man still feels he is innocent, cos a suspect is innocent until proven guilty by the court of law!
I think the best thing for our judicial system is to transfer every case to the foreign court like James Onanefe Ibori in English court, Henry Okah's case in South African court.

This one na story

Intrepid!:
They should lock him in an airtight room and torment him with Tonto Dike and Vic-O songs till he dies of asphyxiation!

I'll pick Tonto's song anyday over that trash Vic O sings!!

Haba, this guy still dey alive? Na wao...