Ministry, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka Thursday raised fresh alarm over
alleged plans by President Goodluck Jonathan to assassinate him before
the March 28 general elections.
In a press statement, through the media officer of the Adoration
Ministry, Enugu, Nigeria, Barr. Ike Maximus Ugwuoke, saidt he had been
marked for death before the presidential election.
The statement entitled: "JONATHAN WANTS ME DEAD BEFORE THE 2015
ELECTION", the Adoration Ministry warned that if anything happened to
"Mbaka, Jonathan's government would be held responsible."
The statement read: "It is with a deep sense of concern that we are
constrained to make this statement on the continued threat to the life
of Rev Fr Ejike Mbaka over his 2015 New Year message titled "From Good
luck to Badluck".
"The issue of threat to Fr' Mbaka's life became a public knowledge
that it formed the headline of a national daily Publication of 5th
January 2015, "My Life in Danger". The daily reported, 'Enugu Catholic
priest and the founder of Adoration Ministry, Rev Fr. Ejike Mbaka
raised alarm that he has been receiving threat messages following his
New Year eve message'.
"Two days later, 7th January 2015, another daily also reported that
the Enugu State Police Command has refuted claims by Fr Mbaka that his
life is in danger. It dismissed Fr. Mbaka's outcry over threat to his
life as baseless. The Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Ebere
Amarizu, DSP was quoted as saying, 'We do not have any report by Fr.
Mbaka over threat to his life. We have not received any complaint from
him'".
The Ministry added that, "On the backdrop of the above, one begins to
wonder whether the alarm raised by Fr Mbaka on an alleged plot to kill
him was a mere rhetoric as the police had made it to appear merely
because there has not been an official report to the police over it.
Absence of a formal report on threat to one's life doesn't negate the
reality of such threat more so when the victim had made a public
outcry on this issue. To argue otherwise is akin to denying the fact
of death in the face of a man's corpse merely because there is no
certificate certifying his death.
"Rev Fr. Mbaka had consistently in his public outings been raising
alarm over threat to his life and strange calls and messages
threatening to assassinate him. The last of this was his assertion
that assassins from the Presidency had been engaged to exterminate his
life before the 28th March 2015 Election.
"This was coming after he had made a public statement on 8th March
2015 that in the presence of some named witnesses, he rejected a
parcel of money sent to him by the First Lady through the Deputy
Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu and that the rejected money was with
the latter.
The issue of threat to Fr Mbaka's life has become worrisome that even
at his last Friday's adoration Programme held on 13th March 2015, he
did not turnout in his usual car due to security alert he had of his
planned assassination on that day. Thursday strange hoodlums in a
black hillux besieged his parish compound but they left disappointed
when they could not see him.
"Wherever and whoever this threat is coming from, we state that there
are strong and compelling circumstances pointing towards the fact that
Fr. Mbaka's latest attacks were stemming from his said 2015 New Year
message which was not favourable to the President Goodluck Jonathan
led administration.
"We also wish to state that before the 2015 New Year message of Fr
.Mbaka, he used to pray for Jonathan's Government and never raised any
alarm on threats to his life but after the 31st night message which he
was inspired to preach by the Holy Spirit he has been making a public
outcry of threat to his life. This is a clear case of a witch cries in
the night and ones child is found dead in the morning.
"We advise the Goodluck Jonathan's government that he has a duty to
protect and guarantee Fr Mbaka's life as Adorers, Nigerians, the
Catholic Church and indeed the international community will readily
point accusing fingers to him, in event of any misfortune against Fr
Mbaka or Adoration Ministry Enugu Nigeria.
"With the stage the level of threat to Fr Mbaka's life has reached, we
call on Nigerian Police and indeed all security agencies in this
country to protect the life of our Spiritual Director we else may
resort to enforce his fundamental Rights to life against President
Jonathan's led government as guaranteed under section 33 of the 1999
Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
--Daily Times
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