"Ghana Airways" Evangelist Was PNDC Hired Killer

London-based Ghanaian Tele-Evangelist, Dr. Lawrence Tetteh who was recently flown down to pray for the revival of moribund Ghana Airways and one Pastor Kwabena are alleged hired killers of the PNDC.

This startling revelation emerged at the National Reconciliation Commission (NRC) hearing at Kumasi when a petitioner, Mr. Eric Gyimah, narrated how his brother, the late Pastor Akwasi Amoako, was killed in a motor accident which was generally believed to have been politically motivated.

The late Pastor Amoako died under "mysterious circumstances" when a car in which he was travelling was involved in an accident with an army vehicle on the Accra-Takoradi road. In the late Pastor's car were the Accra-based gospel singers, the Tagoe Sisters, who miraculously escaped death. According to the petitioner, Dr. Tetteh and Pastor Kodua confessed that they were sent by the PNDC to eliminate Pastor Amoako, who was the founder of the Resurrection Power Ministry.

Mr. Gyimah, a building contractor, narrated how his late brother lashed at the military government during the reign of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC). Witness said his brother preached against the executions in 1979 arguing that such action "would attract the wrath of God."

Witness said his brother also spoke against "unrighteous conduct in the country" in the wake of the 1981 coup. As a result, Gyimah said, they heard rumours that soldiers wanted to arrest him, adding that at one time an attempt was made to arrest his brother in Kumasi.

According to Gyimah two people went to the church in Accra and confessed to his brother that they had been sent to eliminate him. One of them was Dr. Lawrence Tetteh, a former CDR member and now host of "Miracle Touch" on Metro TV, and one Pastor Kwabena Kodua. Additionally, another woman also confessed that she had been planted in the church to gather intelligence on the late pastor.

Witness told the NRC, which has just returned to Accra that, when his brother wanted to travel to Israel and needed a visa, one Mrs. Daasebre offered to assist. Witness said one day the woman and her husband, Mr. Daasebre took they (Gyimah and Amoako) to the Castle Annex to see a soldier called Quainoo. According to witness, they told the soldier what their mission was, he told them. "Me I dey kill. I no de do visa." However, after the woman had said something to the soldier he became sober.

Mr. Gyimah said the woman assured them that when the visa was ready she would call him (Amoako) and go for their passport since Pastor said he was going to Takoradi for a revival.

Witness said while his brother was in Takoradi, he had a call from Mrs. Daasebre that the visa was ready. According to Gyimah, on his brother's way back to Accra, his car was involved in the accident that caused his death

. According to him the accident report blamed a mechanical device on the military vehicle as the cause of the accident.

He prayed the Commission to probe the circumstances leading to the accident since the final report, promised by the Police, has not been issued.