Gospel Apostolic Church debunks Pastor Garuba’s claim of unpaid compensation

“The Applicant is not to be believed, the contradictory averments can clearly be seen as a fabrication. I think as rightly deposed to by the 4th Respondent, the Applicant is an ungrateful man inspite of all that the Respondent did for him after the unfortunate incident he brought to bear on himself, The Applicant skillfully kept  away all the facts of this assistance and what transpired between him and the Respondent on the fateful day and re-invented the story. In re-writing the events, the Applicant also skillfully kept or concealed the facts of what occurred at the palace of the Oba of Benin and the UBA cheque of 15th October2012 that was issued to him.

The Court does not believe the facts offered by the Applicant.The Applicant tried to pull a wool on the face of the court to secure sympathy that he does not deserve.Facts are sacred they do not lie  but human beings lie.

     The Applicant in the instant case who went to the house of the Lord to tamper with a loaded gun like a small child has himself to blame.

      Inspite of all the efforts made to rehabilitate him he is still an unrepentant ungrateful man of God he is, men of God should not lie in ordinary matters let alone an oath before God”.

Regardless of the above Judgement of the Court in Suit No:

FHC/L/CS/2040/2014 Pastor Garuba and his present solicitors  Messrs. Osagie Obayuwana & Co on the 9th June, 2016 surreptitiously commenced a garnishee proceeding in Court in respect of the Judgement in Suit No: FHC/L/CS/1273/2013 earlier abandoned and on the 28th November, 2016 the Court presided over by Justice Hadiza. Shagari granted an Order Nisi for the attachment of all the funds standing to the credit of the Gospel Apostolic Church and 3 others with their bankers. The Trustees of the Church only became aware for the first time the concluded proceedings and the judgement in Suit Number: FHC/L/CS/1273/2013 on the 22nd February, 2017 when Ecobank Plc; one of it’s bankers informed the Trustees by  a letter dated same day that a lien has been placed on the account of it’s former General Overseer the Late Reverend Samuel Akinbode Sadela.

Having become aware of the said Judgement in Suit No: FHC/L/CS/1273/2013, the Trustees of the Church through their solicitors, Barrister Kehinde Fadayiro have taken various bonafide legal process both at the lower Court and the appellate Court in Appeal No: CA/L/43/2018 without success to set aside the said judgement obtained by fundamental irregularity orchestrated by Pastor Garuba with the active connivance of his solicitors and the Ex-bailiff of the Court who claimed to have served the Court processes in the Suit No: FHC/L/CS/1273/2013,but did not serve.

In an attempt by the Church to attach the record of the lower Court which states that the Church was served with the originating processes in Suit No: FHC/L/CS/1273/2013, the Registered Trustees of the Church discovered to their utter shock and disbelief that the same Ex-bailiff; Patrick Onwuka who claimed to have served the Church has been dismissed from the Federal Judicial Service on the 18th October, 2017 by the Federal Judicial Service Commission for serious misconduct i.e False deposition of Affidavit of Service in Suit No: FHC/L/CS/2040/2014 and in another Suit No:FHC/L/CP/142/2015. MR. WELLINGTON OKOTODEI Versus Incorporated Trustees of Pinnock Beach Association Lekki Lagos and others.

 Upon the aforesaid discovery, The Trustees of the Church through their solicitor Mr Kehinde Fadayiro on the 30th November,2018, filed Suit number FHC/L/CS/2005/2018 against Pastor Garuba and the Deputy Sherrif of the Federal High Court to set aside the judgement in Suit No: FHC/L/CS/1273/2013 on the ground of fraud, gross misrepresentation, deceit and in the face of the overwhelming evidence before the Court including that of the Ex-bailiff of the Court who confessed in open Court that he never served the originating processes in Suit No: FHC/L/CS/1273/2013, the Court on the 215 July, 2022 presided over by Justice O.O Liman dismissed the suit on the ground that he does not have the requisite jurisdiction to entertain the case. The said Judgement in Suit No: FHC/L/CS/2005/2018 has since been appealed against on the 27th July, 2022 and their counsel  have been duly served.

     Their  appeal is a continuation of the hearing of the case and until the appeal is dispensed with the action is still pending in the Court. Upholding a preliminary objection by the trial Court does not necessarily translate that the Appeal  Court would agree with the trial Court based on the facts and evidence on record before the Court; as the Appellate Court is entitled to look at the records before it and decide if the trial Court was right or wrong.

Our client would like to clarify the issue of the armoury with loaded guns raised: Firstly, at no time or period has the Registered Trustees of the Church maintained any armoury with loaded guns within it’s premises. Secondly, the loaded single barrel shotgun that Pastor Garuba fiddled with before it exploded and caused damage to his two eyes was principally used for the protection of the then General Overseer of the Church and the other ministers of God.