Tribunal Chairman Tells Off Self-Seeking Pastors

Nana Baffour-Adjei, a circuit tribunal chairman at Cape Coast, on Wednesday deplored the situation where many people rush into the clergy for material gains and stressed that this practice must be stopped.

Nana Baffour-Adjei, expressed this concern when he sentenced a 19-year-old self-styled prophet who had pleaded not to send him to prison because he wanted to attend a Bible school to become a pastor, to three years imprisonment in hard labour, for stealing.

Daniel Ekow Abban, a Junior Secondary School graduate, had pleaded guilty to stealing 7.2 million cedis and a mobile phone belonging to one Madam Dorothy Armah, a trader at Siwudu, a suburb of Cape Coast.

He was in addition; ordered to refund 1.6 million cedis being the balance of the money he stole, to Madam Armah or in default, serve another 12 months in prison.