It is the end of the road for the
bearded General Overseer of Christian Praying Assembly (CPA), Chukwuemeka
Ezeugo, aka Rev King, as the Supreme Court has upheld his death sentence.
Rev. King was sentenced to death by
hanging in 2007 by Justice Olubunmi Oyewole of the Ikeja High Court, on a
5-count charge of murder. He set fire on seven members of his church whom he
accused of fornication.
One of them, Ann King, died as a
result of injuries sustained in the fire.
During the trial, witnesses, who were
mostly his church members, narrated how Reverend King turned them to intimacy
gadgets. The principal witness in the matter, Kelechi King, in her gory account
told the court how she had aborted four pregnancies for the self-acclaimed
‘god’.
She also revealed how Reverend King
made her denounce her family and how she served him as his maid, attending to
him Unclad.
On the incident that led to the death
of Ann, almost all the prosecution witnesses corroborated the fact that Rev.
King actually set them on fire by pouring fuel on them.
They also told the court that on the
said date, Rev. King gathered them together in his house following allegations
that they were committing fornication in his house, an allegation they all
denied.
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