“When I came to live with the accused (Rev. King), he
told me that I would be his permanent maid and that I would agree not to marry.
He said anytime I wanted to serve him I must be stark naked which I did. No
pant, no bra, I would be completely nude before him and I did this not once,
not twice, but for several years. He also ordered me not to tell any member of
my family where I was living. He gave me a ring which I always put on to
indicate that I am his permanent maid and all this he made me to put into
writing. I am a member of the Lord’s army and we bully people, putting fear
into them and molesting them. “Rev. King is a very violent person, he would
beat us mercilessly and as a result we always have wounds on our bodies. He
called himself god, the owner of the universe and could do anything. We know
this is not so but out of fear we could not challenge him. On the 22nd July
2006 the day of the fire incident, a sister named Kelechi came to call me from
the boys quarter of the Rev. King’s house where we were staying that the
accused wanted to see me.
When I got to him he did not even allow me to kneel down
as we usually did when talking to him before he started beating me with stick,
rod and anything he could find. I started crying, shouting and begging him not
to kill me. It was then I noticed others who were there; Cosy, Chiejile,
Jessica, Ann, Vivian and Kelechi. He accused me that I lied to him that
Chiejile did not sleep with me whereas Chiejile had confessed to him that he
slept with me. But Chiejile never did he only said that so that the accused
(Rev. King) will not kill him. “He said he would kill all of us. He then asked
Kelechi to go and bring fuel and matches but when she brought it he told her
that the petrol was not enough and that she should go and bring more which was
brought in a very large plastic container. He then marched us out of the room
saying he did not want to burn his rug and chair. While we were outside his
room but within the church compound Kelechi poured petrol on us on his orders
and he struck the first match which did not catch fire. “When he struck the
second match we were all engulfed in fire but I did not know how I managed to
escape from there and I ran back to our apartment. When I noticed that Ann had
been taken to the hospital, I ran out in my night gown and I never came back to
the church. I came out of the place by the grace of God, I am free now, I am no
longer under the spell of the accused person,” Miss Chizoba said. Miss Chizoba
said this in 2006 while testifying against the controversially violent pastor
before an Ikeja high court. At the time Rev. King was on trial for the murder
of one of his members, Miss Ann Uzor and attempting to murder five others by
pouring petrol on them and setting them ablaze. Rev. Emeka Ezeugo King had
his death sentence upheld by the Supreme Court on Friday,
February 26, 2016.
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