The 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 (read here ).
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.
It is important to know that Reverend King had approached the apex court after the Lagos state Court of Appeal on January 11th 2007 upheld the ruling of the state High court sentencing him to death by hanging for the murder of one of his church members, Ann Uzoh on August 2nd 2006.
King had set seven members of his church on fire for indulging in fornication (read here ). Ann sustained serious injuries and died in the process.
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