EXECUTION;REVEREND KING TO BE HANGED AT LAST ALONGSIDE OTHERS


REV KING

Chukwuemeka Ezeugo a.k.a. Rev. King is set to be executed alongside other inmates on death row in a Lagos State Prison.

The state’s attorney general and commissioner for justice, Adeniji Kazeem made this known at a news conference today Tuesday, April 18th.

Adeniji described the development as an instruction from the state Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode.

He said that the state had begun reviewing the matter after prison officials complained of the highhandedness of some death row inmates who felt they had certain rights which excluded them from being executed.

The Attorney-General assured that, unlike previous administrations, Governor Ambode would sign the necessary documents to execute those on death row.Kazeem said, “Very soon, you will see the action of this government on that issue,we are reviewing the case on Rev. King and others on death row.

He added, “Lots of people are on death row,Rev King is not the only one on death row, it is on the instruction of Ambode that I visited the prisons recently and I discussed the issue with prison officials and they expressed their concerns.

“We are moving in that direction of signing.The prison officials said we need to look at that seriously. Those on death row are beginning to think they have some very special rights.We are going to move in that direction, you will hear from me, but I will not tell you the exact date.”

The Supreme Court had on February 27, 2016 affirmed the death sentence passed on King by the Appeal Court.

The condemned cleric was arraigned before the Lagos High Court in Ikeja on September 26, 2006, on six counts of murder of a member of his church, Ann Uzoh, and attempted murder of five other members.He was said to have poured petrol on the deceased and the five other victims and set them on fire for allegedly committing fornication.

Uzoh died on August 2, 2006, 11 days after the incident, as a result of the injuries she sustained from the burns.

She was said to have been 65 per cent burnt in the fire incident. The trial judge, Justice Olubunmi Oyewole (now a Justice of the Court of Appeal), had in his judgement delivered on January 11, 2007, convicted Ezeugo and sentenced him to 20 years imprisonment on each of the five counts of attempted murder and death sentence for murder. 

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