Barely 48 hours after the Supreme
Court affirmed the death sentence
passed on a Lagos-based pastor and
the General Overseer of the Christian
Praying Assembly, Rev. Chukwuemeka
Ezeugo, aka Rev. King, some of his
neighbours have asked for his immediate
execution.
The landlords appealed to the Lagos
State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode,
to sign Rev. King’s death warrant to
hasten the process.
A five-man bench of the Supreme Court
led by Justice Walter Onnoghen, in its
unanimous judgement, had on Friday
dismissed the appeal by the cleric
challenging the verdict of the Lagos
Division of the Court of Appeal, which
had affirmed the conviction and the
sentence passed on him by the Lagos
High Court.
Justice Sylvester Ngwuta, who read the
lead judgement of the court, resolved
all the 12 issues raised by Rev. King in
his appeal against him and dismissed the
entire appeal for lacking in merit.
The judgement dealt a final blow on
the last effort by Rev. King to free
himself from the death sentence, which
had been hanging around his neck for
over nine years.
A next door landlord in Ajao Estate
where the church is based applauded
the Supreme Court for the judgement,
saying he expected it.
The landlord, who spoke on condition
of anonymity, said, “Now, we need the
governor to quickly sign the papers,
because if he does not, we are in
trouble.
“The church members had been saying
they would take over our houses and
they had been threatening to deal with
some of us. They ask us to just wait
for his return and see what would
happen.
“That was why immediately we heard the
news of the judgement, we were happy.
In fact, if I cannot talk for others, I
can tell you that I am very happy. I am
happy because it marks the end of a
group constituting a nuisance to us.”
Another landlord, who asked not to be
named for security reasons, said he
wants Ambode to sign the death warrant
as soon as possible.
“I hope the governor will not be afraid
of signing it. He should do it on time.
“The truth is that the church has not
impacted the community in any way. We
are waiting for what will happen next
after this.
The Lagos State Government, in a
statement on Friday through the
Attorney General and Commissioner for
Justice, Mr. Adeniji Kazeem, said the
judgement affirmed the seriousness of
the state government in fighting crime.

Its two sentence dey gave him..20yrs in prison nd death sentence so d death will cum aftr he has serv his 20yrs jail term

The bible says HE WHO KILL BY THE SWORD SHALL DIE BY THE SWORD......This man should be turn to suya

y waitin 4 ambode sef! kill him @ once

from what I have seen from other news, I now understand people really hate Rev. king

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