The fiery Enugu priest, Rev. Fr.
Ejike Mbaka yesterday raised fresh alarms over alleged plans to assassinate him
before the March 28 general elections.Mbaka, who spoke through the media
officer of the Adoration Ministry, Enugu, Nigeria, Barr. Ike Maximus Ugwuoke,
cried out that he had been marked for death before the presidential election.In
the Press Statement entitled: “JONATHAN WANTS ME DEAD BEFORE THE 2015
ELECTION”, the Adoration Ministry warned that if anything happened to Fr.
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 the Sun news
Publication of 5th January 2015, “My Life in Danger”. The Sun reported, ‘Enugu
Catholic priest and the founder of Adoration Ministry, Rev Fr. Ejike Mbaka
yesterday raised alarm that he has been receiving threat messages following his
New Year eve message’.
“Two days later, 7th January 2015, Vanguard 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. Yesterday strange
hoodlums in a black hillux and 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 as amended which confers on
Nigerian citizens the power to secure the enforcement of their human rights
even in events of likelihood of any infringements. This is apparently due to
the fact that the right to life can only be enjoyed by the living”.
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