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Emeka King: Family disown Dr. King

Daily Sun, Nigeria
Aug. 6, 2006
Geoffrey Anyanwu
www.sunnewsonline.com

ReligionNewsBlog.com • Monday August 7, 2006

“Who are you talking about? What we know him here as is Emeka and our surname is Ezeuko not Ezeugo as he is parading himself”.
These were the words of Mr. Aaron Ezeuko, who is an uncle to Rev. Emeka King Ezeugo’s uncle, founder and pastor of the Christian Praying Assembly, Lagos, when Sunday Sun visited their village, Umulekwe, Achina, in Aguata Local Government of Anambra State.

Aaron who is the immediate younger brother to Rev King’s father, late Edwin Ezeuko said that the Ezeuko family is popular as they are responsible, well-behaved and God fearing.

He said Emeka (Rev King) was well brought up and therefore, could not explain what had happened to him after he left home to Lagos.

“You know when you send you child to school, a good child, you may not know what he will turn out to be and I think that is the case with Emeka. But you can see that our family is a disciplined one, you can still go around and ask. I want to tell you that we do not know what he is doing there,” said Aaron.

The eldest man in the family, Mr. Godwin I. Ezeuko could not hide his feelings and great disappointment when he told Sunday Sun that “If you have come here with him, I would have asked him why he changed his name, we are Ezeuko and not Ezeugo”.

The 87-year-old retired teacher repeatedly said in a parable, referring to King that “If you are always doing what you like and which does not please God, one day what does not please you will visit you.”

Godwin disclosed that King was before he started his own church a visioner at All Christian Practical Praying Band, Ufuma, popularly known as “Ekpere Ufuma” where he disagreed with the authority and ran away.

The elder Ezeuko told the whole story:

The beginning

I am Godwin I. Ezeuko, a retired schoolmaster. I retired in 1984. Emeka Ezeuko is my younger brother’s son. His father was Edwin Ezeuko who lived in Onitsha where he had all his five children and Emeka is the first child. Emeka after secondary school got admission into Nnamdi Azikiwe University where he studied Psychology. He is a psychologist. After studies he started prayers at Ekpere Ufuma that is called All Christian Practical Praying Band and became a visioner there. We were with him at Achina branch and he was seeing visions and later developed to be a visioner at the Ufuma headquarters.

There he was doing the job, until a time he worked the way that was not acceptable to the praying band and he was told that the way he was working is not the way Ufuma works. Because of that he got annoyed and left and started his own prayer house.

He continued the way he liked though we don’t know if that is how God directed him, or is how he learnt it. That is what he was doing until this stage he is now, that he has case. If someone continues to do what he likes, if that thing that he likes does not please God, one day he will see what he does not like.

So, we saw Emeka as one who was doing well at Ufuma Praying Band. It was when he left that he started praying the way he is praying now. We at home do not know how he is practicing, because I have not been there. I don’t know how he practices and what we hear now on how he is practicing is not what he was taught. He is only doing what he likes. But God told us to inquire from him before we do anything. There was no time he was taught how to do or indulge in evil things, like we are hearing he is doing now. He is doing his will and as he is doing so, we are asking God to direct him aright. If what he is doing is not good, let God change him, so that he will behave well. We at home who are members of Ezeuko family do not know how he is practicing his faith in Lagos.

We are sad

What is happening now is sad, it does not give joy and I don’t like it myself. If I had seen him, I would have rebuked him that what he is doing is not good. Let him remove monkey’s hand from the soup so that it does not become a human hand. It’s not good, I mean what he is doing, nobody likes evil or bad thing, whoever that goes to pray to God is seeking God’s blessings not destruction.

Since the death of his father in 1998 and after he finished the burial rites, he left and we heard that Emeka said that he would not come back to the Ezeuko’s family house until after seven years. There was a meeting we formed then, Ezeuko’s Education Board, which I am the chairman and he said he would be a member. But he left for Lagos and till today, we have not set our eyes on him. Since then he has not set foot on his father’s compound to see how it is. When his father’s immediate elder brother died, we did not see Emeka. He had come to Ekwulobia for his crusade but did not step into this village. So, since he started this, he no longer comes home. That is why he changed Ezeuko’s name and is answering Ezeugo.