Odorkor Police Command,Ghana has arrested a fake pastor named Jonas Abedi, 35 and four other suspects, Enoch Mortey, 29, , Helena Donkor, 40, fake cripple woman ,Divine Kwadwo Columbus, 36, a self-acclaimed prophet, and Christiana Quainoo, 36, who posed as a sister of the cripple during church service.
According to the Founder of Power Explosion Chapel at Tantra Hills in Accra, Rev Ewurama Annan, who invited Jonas Abedi self acclaimed Ghanaian pastor based in New York in the United States of America (USA), to her church as a visiting pastor said the two had established contact through a social media platform. Facebook,.
The Odorkor District Police Commander, Superintendent of Police Mr Abraham Acquaye, said Abedi, who claimed to be a Ghanaian pastor based in New York in the United States of America (USA), and Rev Annan had been communicating through Facebook for a while.
“In one of their chats, Abedi told Rev Annan that he had been invited by a church in South Africa for a programme and was scheduled to visit Ghana for another programme with a church in Kumasi, after which he would want to pay her a visit,” Mr Acquaye said.
He said Rev Annan informed Abedi that her church had been holding services on Sundays and Tuesdays and wanted him to be the guest speaker on November 11.
About two weeks later, Rev Annan received a phone call from Abedi that he had arrived in Ghana and was done with the Kumasi-based church.
Mr Acquaye said Power Explosion Chapel hosted Abedi and his two pastor friends in a hotel for the programme, which was held on Sunday, November 9 and Tuesday, November 11, 2014.
“During the service on Tuesday, Abedi asked the congregation if there was any sick person in the church and Quainoo responded that she had brought her crippled sister,” he said.
The pastor, Mr Acquaye said, led the congregation to pray for the sick woman who had come to the church with crutches and was unable to stand on her legs.
After the church had prayed, the police commander said, the pastor asked her to walk, and instantly the woman was able to walk and even jumped without the crutches and support of her sister.
According to the Founder of Power Explosion Chapel at Tantra Hills in Accra, Rev Ewurama Annan, who invited Jonas Abedi self acclaimed Ghanaian pastor based in New York in the United States of America (USA), to her church as a visiting pastor said the two had established contact through a social media platform. Facebook,.
The Odorkor District Police Commander, Superintendent of Police Mr Abraham Acquaye, said Abedi, who claimed to be a Ghanaian pastor based in New York in the United States of America (USA), and Rev Annan had been communicating through Facebook for a while.
“In one of their chats, Abedi told Rev Annan that he had been invited by a church in South Africa for a programme and was scheduled to visit Ghana for another programme with a church in Kumasi, after which he would want to pay her a visit,” Mr Acquaye said.
He said Rev Annan informed Abedi that her church had been holding services on Sundays and Tuesdays and wanted him to be the guest speaker on November 11.
About two weeks later, Rev Annan received a phone call from Abedi that he had arrived in Ghana and was done with the Kumasi-based church.
Mr Acquaye said Power Explosion Chapel hosted Abedi and his two pastor friends in a hotel for the programme, which was held on Sunday, November 9 and Tuesday, November 11, 2014.
“During the service on Tuesday, Abedi asked the congregation if there was any sick person in the church and Quainoo responded that she had brought her crippled sister,” he said.
The pastor, Mr Acquaye said, led the congregation to pray for the sick woman who had come to the church with crutches and was unable to stand on her legs.
After the church had prayed, the police commander said, the pastor asked her to walk, and instantly the woman was able to walk and even jumped without the crutches and support of her sister.
Other miracles:
Earlier, the commander said, Abedi had called a young man from the congregation and told him that he was involved in the use of charms to seduce older women and that he was in the church because of a woman.
“To prove a point, Abedi said the young man was carrying the charm and a condom in his pocket and asked him to bring them out. The man brought out a substance and a condom,” he said.
Another man was also said to have been called to the front of the congregation, after which Abedi mentioned the name and the telephone number of the man and revealed other personal details, to the surprise of the congregation.
However, Mr Acquaye said, the founder of the church told the police that she became suspicious after the service, since all the people Abedi ministered to were not members of her church. She then detailed some elders of the church to monitor those people and Abedi. At the end of the service, the woman who had been healed carried her crutches and put them behind a waiting four-wheel drive vehicle at a filling station near the church where she waited with her supposed sister.
The other two men also joined them, while the church elders monitored and saw those making phone calls. Shortly after, a man walked to them and gave them money, which the elders suspected to be payment for their services.
With the help of the Odorkor District Police night patrol team, the elders managed to apprehend the two women, while the two men bolted. The Pastor and his two friends were later arrested by the police at their hotel.
Mr Acquaye said on interrogation, Helena and Christiana confessed that they had been contracted by a lady who gave them the crutches and asked them to put up the charade for a fee of GH¢50 each.
Earlier, the commander said, Abedi had called a young man from the congregation and told him that he was involved in the use of charms to seduce older women and that he was in the church because of a woman.
“To prove a point, Abedi said the young man was carrying the charm and a condom in his pocket and asked him to bring them out. The man brought out a substance and a condom,” he said.
Another man was also said to have been called to the front of the congregation, after which Abedi mentioned the name and the telephone number of the man and revealed other personal details, to the surprise of the congregation.
However, Mr Acquaye said, the founder of the church told the police that she became suspicious after the service, since all the people Abedi ministered to were not members of her church. She then detailed some elders of the church to monitor those people and Abedi. At the end of the service, the woman who had been healed carried her crutches and put them behind a waiting four-wheel drive vehicle at a filling station near the church where she waited with her supposed sister.
The other two men also joined them, while the church elders monitored and saw those making phone calls. Shortly after, a man walked to them and gave them money, which the elders suspected to be payment for their services.
With the help of the Odorkor District Police night patrol team, the elders managed to apprehend the two women, while the two men bolted. The Pastor and his two friends were later arrested by the police at their hotel.
Mr Acquaye said on interrogation, Helena and Christiana confessed that they had been contracted by a lady who gave them the crutches and asked them to put up the charade for a fee of GH¢50 each.
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