Therefore, the court in its lead decision that was conveyed by Justice Sylvester Ngwuta, released the offer the sentenced ministry held up before it. General Overseer of the Christian Praying Assembly, Rev. Chukwuemeka Ezeugo, a.k.a Reverend King General Overseer of the Christian Praying Assembly, Rev. Chukwuemeka Ezeugo, a.k.a Reverend King Justice Ngwuta who noticed that "the facts of the case could have been lifted from blood and gore movie", determined all the 12 issues Ezeugo brought up in his allure."
"This bid has no legitimacy. The judgment of the court of request is thusly asserted. The jail sentence that was before given to the appealing party is no more significant in perspective of capital punishment went on him", Justice Ngwuta held. It will be reviewed that Ezeugo was indicted and sentenced to death by holding tight January 11, 2007, for the asserted homicide of his congregation part, Ann Uzoh. He was summoned on September 26, 2006 on a six-number charge of endeavored murder and murder.
The charge against him was at the case of the Lagos State Directorate of Public Prosecutions. Amid the trial, the arraignment had contended that the convict poured petrol on the unhealthy, Uzor and five others. Uzoh passed on August 2, 2006, precisely 11 days after the episode. In her judgment, trial Justice Joseph Oyewole who is presently a Justice of the Court of Appeal at Calabar, said there was adequate confirmation connecting the blamed individual to the commission for the wrongdoing.
Subsequently, Justice Oyewole indicted and sentenced Ezeugo to 20 years detainment for the endeavored homicide and hanging so as to pass for the offense of homicide. Disappointed with the judgment, Ezeugo took the case before the Lagos Division of the Court of Appeal.
The censured ministry, in his notification of bid dated January 16, 2007, begged the investigative court to set aside the judgment. Aside 16 grounds of request he raised through his attorney, Mr. Olalekan Ojo, he was in this manner allowed leave to contend extra 16 grounds based an altered notification of advance he documented on June 15, 2008. Ojo contended that his customer did not carry out the wrongdoing and was not at the scene of the episode.
He demanded that the expired, Uzoh, had in two articulations she made after the episode and before her demise, expressed that she got blazed in a generator mischance and that the pastor was not in charge of her wounds. Ojo said the Investigating Police Officer, IPO, had tendered explanations which expressed that Ezeugo was not in charge of the blazes that prompted Uzoh's passing.
He charged that the trial Judge declined to concede in proof, the announcements he said excused Ezeugo of the wrongdoing. The legal advisor further battled had those "key shows" been conceded as opposed to canceled by the trial judge, they would have worked to provide reason to feel ambiguous about genuine the instance of the indictment. He kept up that Justice Oyewole's refusal to concede the displays in confirmation "occasioned an incredible premature delivery of equity" against his customer.
In the interim, after due thought of the case, a three-man board of judges of the investigative court, in a lead judgment that was conveyed by Justice Fatimo Akinbami, released Ezeugo's allure and maintained the high court decision.
Alternate individuals from the investigative court board that similarly agreed with the lower court's decision were Justices Amina Augie and Ibrahim Saulawa. Resolved to spare his life, Rev Ezeugo held up an offer under the watchful eye of the Supreme Court. His allure was tested by the Lagos state government which through its Attorney General, Mr. Adeniji Kazeem and Director of Public Prosecutions, Mrs. Idowu Alakija, asked the peak court to reject it and maintain the simultaneous verdicts of the two lower courts.
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