Don’t Kill Rev King, Igbo Group Begs FG

    Ndigbo Cultural Society of Nigeria (NCSN) has called on the
    Federal Government of Nigeria not to make haste in carrying out the death
    sentence passed on Rev. Chukwuemeka Ezeugo, the General Overseer of Christian
    Praying Assembly, by the Supreme Court on Friday.
    Leader of the group, Chief Udo Udeogaranya, made the appeal
    after the Supreme Court threw out Rev King’s appeal against the death sentence
    passed on him in 2007 by a Lagos High Court presided over by Justice Joseph
    Oyewole.
    According to Udeogaranya, the President Muhammadu Buhari-led
    Federal Government should “commute the sentence and grant him pardon as Nigeria
    stands to gain nothing by shedding blood.

    “This plea is premised on the ground that many Nigerians
    still hold Rev. Ezeugo as their spiritual leader even in various prisons and
    that the initial trial in Lagos as purportedly put forward by his lawyer Mr.
    Olalekan Ojo and published by national dailies was a miscarriage of justice in
    which the lawyer made certain points that demanded a second thought.
    “Ojo argued that his client did not commit the crime and was
    not at the scene of the incident. He insisted that the deceased, Ann Uzoh, had
    in two statements she made after the incident and before her death, stated that
    she got burnt in a generator accident and that the cleric was not responsible
    for her injuries.
    “Ojo said the Investigating Police Officer, IPO, had
    tendered statements which stated that Ezeugo was not responsible for the burns
    that led to Uzoh’s death. He alleged that the trial Judge refused to admit in
    evidence, the statements he said exonerated Ezeugo of the crime.

    “The lawyer further contended had those ‘vital exhibits’
    been admitted rather than expunged by the trial judge, they would have operated
    to cast serious doubt on the case of the prosecution. He maintained that
    Justice Oyewole’s refusal to admit the exhibits in evidence ‘occasioned a great
    miscarriage of justice’ against his client.”

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