Land question: Court attests judgment against Deeper Life

The Court of Appeal, Lagos, has reaffirmed the 2014 judgment of a Lagos High Court against the Deeper Christian Life Ministry in an area question with one Mr. Joseph Ebhodaghe, honoring N5 million general harms against the congregation. Ebhodaghe, who the Lagos High Court depicted as a pastor of the Celestial Church of Christ (CCC), established the body of evidence against the Registered Trustees of the Deeper Christian Life Ministry in 2005 over a real estate parcel situated on Mulero Street, Off Oyewole Road, Mulero, Agege, Lagos. With the two gatherings, making a case for the area, following their titles to the

Olalabi Sulu Family, Ebhodaghe had recorded an activity, requesting that the court pronounce him the proprietor of the area, honor him N5 million as general harms against the congregation for the trespass on the area, arrange a ceaseless directive to limit the congregation, its specialists, workers and privies from further trespassing on the area and such further requests as the court may regard fit.

After around nine years of trial, Justice S.B.A Candide – Johnson of the Lagos General Civil Division, Igbosere, Lagos, on January 17, 2014, allowed every one of the reliefs looked for by Ebhodaghe. Disappointed with the judgment, the Registered Trustees of Deeper Christian Life Ministry recorded a Notice of Appeal, dated March 27, 2015 and documented on April 14, 2015, raising 10 grounds of advance and six issues for determination. The congregation solicited the Court from Appeal to figure out if its title was not better than Ebhodaghe's contending title even with the narrative and oral confirmation illustrated under the steady gaze of the court by it. The congregation likewise needed the Court of Appeal to decide, among others, whether the recompense by the lower court of general harms of N5million for trespass, use and control of the area by it was not inordinate without proof to bolster the honor. After an audit of the briefs of both sides, the three-man board of Chinwe Eugenia Iyizoba, Yargata Byenchit Nimpar and Abimbola Osarugue Obaseki-Adejumo of the Court of Appeal, Lagos Judicial Division, in their judgment, conveyed on March 30, 2016 by Osarugue Obaseki-Adejumo, maintained the judgment of the lower court, pronouncing: "In the light of the previous, this bid is unmeritorious and it is therefore rejected. The judgment of Candide-Johnson J. of Lagos High Court conveyed on seventeenth January 2014 is insisted, expense is evaluated at N50, 000.00 against the Appellant." 

An elated Superior Evangelist Joseph Ebhodaghe, Shepherd, CCC, Victory Land Parish, Oyewole/Mulero Road, Orile-Agege, Lagos, was loaded with recognition for the legal for satisfying its part as the last any expectation of the basic man, saying thanks to God for remaining by him. As indicated by him, the Deeper Christian Life Ministry and its Registered Trustees had mistreated him for a really long time. "I have done everything conceivable to make peace with them however without much of any result. After I got the main judgment from the Lagos High Court, I tried a few endeavors to meet with them to determine the issue gently, they scorned me. I took the matter to the then Special Assistant to Governor Babatunde Fashola on Christian Affairs, Pastor Ogedegbe, requesting that he mediate and make them to see motivation to make peace. The SA composed Pastor Kumuyi and his other Registered Trustee individuals, they didn't react. I caught up with a few visits to the congregation's projects at Ayobo, worshiped and took an interest in all their projects, supposing I could see Pastor Kumuyi after any of the projects to attract his thoughtfulness regarding the issue, I proved unable. At that point I went to their Gbagada central station, I could just meet with his Secretary, one Pastor Samuel Afape. I examined with him and he took all the reports from me, promising to reach me yet never did, what took after was that they went to the Court of Appeal, yet God has again given me triumph over them," he described. 

The ex-fighter, who said he was in the Army for a long time and in war front for a long time, clarified that he purchased the area in 1973 from his retirement advantages and could never permit anyone to take it from him. "On the off chance that they come and they say they need the area, I will give them the cost, once they pay; I will give up it to them, other than that, no chance," Ebhodaghe said. 

Endeavors made to get the Deeper Christian Life Ministry's remark on the matter were useless.

Source: Vanguard