‘I paid Ghc600 for sex videos’

Yaw Offei, the limping photographer captured on tapes that leaked in February this year having sexual intercourse with some women at Begoro, has told DAILY GUIDE exclusively that he paid Ghc600 to his former apprentice in connection with the nude videos.

He disclosed to this paper in an interview at Begoro in the Fanteakwa District of the Eastern Region that videos of his sexual orgies were recorded and made public by a former female apprentice in his photography shop.

According to him, the said apprentice - whose name he refused to mention - sent him a text message on August 18, 2014 threatening to reveal his sexual exploits to the public if he did not pay her off.

Offei claimed that unknowingly, the said apprentice had been filming all his activities and “she put some of the video recordings under my door, and this really scared me.”

The limping photographer disclosed, “I quickly sent her GH¢600. But I had to run away from Begoro after the videos were seen in public because of the stigma and embarrassment they had caused me.”

He indicated that he had sex with the various women in his photography studio because he is a married man.

In a series of video clips watched by DAILY GUIDE, Mr. Offei was seen bonking women of various statuses at Begoro, including those he claimed were either married or engaged.

The voices of children chatting and cockerels crowing could be heard in the background as the videos were showing Mr. Yaw Offei busily doing his ‘own thing,’ after which he was seen giving the women some money.

He bonked all the women without the use of condoms, thereby creating fear and panic in the town, as the inhabitants said there could be a spread of sexually transmitted diseases in the area.

Currently, Offei is in police custody at Begoro assisting in investigations following his arrest in Kumasi, the Ashanti Regional capital.

The 53-year-old photographer was arrested by the Manhyia Divisional Police Command in Kumasi on Monday when some vigilant residents of the city spotted him and alerted the police.

Three others were earlier picked up by the police at Begoro in connection with the scandal and are assisting in investigations.

News of his arrest made the people jubilate, with some residents arguing that that would lead to the closure of the chapter on the sex tape saga which affected his family, church and Begoro as a whole.

The wife in earlier reports expressed shock at the conduct of her husband, whose shop she said was close to her trading point.

Meanwhile, the traditional rulers of Begoro say they will, in the coming days, summon Yaw Offei to appear before the gods of Begoro to appease them (gods).

The appeasement, Begoro chief, Daasebere Awua Kotoko II, told DAILY GUIDE, would be a means of cleansing the land he (Offei) had desecrated through his immoral activities.