*Knees Bowed, Tears Of Joy Flowed In Court Room Immediately After The Acquittal
Pastor Esosa broke the chains of prison against all odds and walked
on a multitude of scorpions before historically escaping from the den of
coiled anacondas to the disbelief of many cowards who had discouraged
him from erasing his name which had been wrongly written on the jaw of a
lion.
He was arrested on charges of drug dealing, handcuffed, and thrown
into prison. After a long legal battle, on August 1st, 2013 he breathed
fresh air following the declaration that he was not guilty in the
Oberlandesgericht (Higher Regional Court) in Vienna by Dr. Marina Stöger-Hildbrand, the presiding judge. He was subsequently acquitted.
To refresh memories, and to inform those that were not aware of this
case in 2011, it is essential to briefly chronicle the fundamental
issues of this trumped-up charge.
The sad and ugly genesis of the clergyman’s long walk to freedom
Pastor Joshua Esosa is from Edo State, Nigeria. He is the general
overseer of Grace Ministries International in Vienna, Austria. On
February 2nd, 2011, around 10 pm, as if in an action film, the door of
his apartment was smashed by the police in search of drugs that they
never saw. His family members were terribly shocked—a trauma his
children are still battling today to overcome.
Pastor Esosa was not around when the unwanted visitors woke his
family with thunder noise as they broke the door. But according to his
wife, after the police had finished searching their apartment, they
requested that she call her husband and get him to come. They threatened
that they would take her children away to the Jugendamt (youth welfare
office) if she refused. She complied.
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