Kumasi Pastors In Juju Drama

THE SUAME Police Station in Kumasi was a scene of drama on Saturday afternoon when a 23-year-old pastor used eggs and schnapps to invoke the spirit of the dreaded Antoa river deity and other river gods in the Ashanti region, to strike dead his colleague pastor, Bishop Obinim.

Pastor Frank Annor of Faith Power Ministry at Konongo took that weird action against Bishop Obinim of International God’s Way Church at Kenyase-Bosore right in front of the police station, in the full glare of police officers and hundreds of curious people.

Pastor Annor, who is on police enquiry bail, had made countless and wild allegations against Bishop Obinim, one of which was that the senior pastor hired him to bury suspected human bones, snake and four red candles at the premises of the Ebenezer Miracle Worship Centre at Ahenema Kokoben, ostensibly to frame up Rev. Ebenezer Adarkwah Yiadom, founder of the church. But Bishop Obinim, who stormed the police station with his wife and ace gospel musician Florence Obinim as well as a number of young pastors in a fleet of flashy cars, in his reaction, categorically denied knowing Pastor Frank in the presence of the police.

The denial infuriated Pastor Frank, who put aside the spirit and tenets of the Holy Bible and used Holland brewed Schnapps and two traditional eggs to curse Bishop Obinim to the shock of onlookers.

Before the unprecedented action, which took place as Bishop Obinim was about to enter his car, Pastor Frank had run berserk at the police station, promising that he would prove his allegation.

Afterwards, the mammoth crowd who witnessed the action, hooted at Pastor Obinim as his car slowly moved out of the police station, accusing him of unduly taking advantage of the 23-year-old pastor. In his caution statement to the police, Pastor Annor alleged that Bishop Obinim promised to pay him GH¢4,000 upon the completion of the infamous assignment, but he (Obinim) failed to honour his promise after the younger pastor had completed the assignment.

After confessing to the police, a group of officers at the Suame police station, led by DSP Kwaku Duah, the Divisional Crime Officer, earlier in the week led Pastor Frank to Ahenema Kokoben to exhume the buried bones, snake and four red candles which were located close to Rev Ebenezer Yiadom’s church.

The police were compelled to grant Pastor Frank bail after he continuously defecated broken substances suspected to be razor blades at the police cells.

According to Pastor Frank, Bishop Obinim’s motive of hiring him to bury the ritual items at Ahenema Kokoben was to give the impression that Rev. Ebenezer Adarkwah Yiadom was using ‘juju’ to perform his miracles, thereby leading to the collapse of his church. He alleged that Bishop Obinim put some oil in his mouth and ears the very first time one Charles Abankwah introduced him to the Bishop at a drinking spot at Ashaley Botwe in Accra.

Bishop Obinim, he said, warned that the oil that he had put in his mouth and ears was a sign of a covenant, so he (Frank) would die or go mad if he dared make public anything they assigned him to do.

Pastor Frank indicated that though Bishop Obinim failed to honour his promise with regard to paying him the money, he (Obinim) approached him yet again to bury human head, legs and hands at Rev. Adarkwah’s church site again for a fee of GH¢6,000 but he refused to accept the offer.

The famous Konongo-based pastor said at this juncture, Bishop Obinim and his cronies started harbouring fears that he could make the diabolical acts public so they started making efforts to eliminate him.

Pastor Frank Annor alleged that he was recently butchered when he boarded a taxi from Tech Junction in Kumasi to Atonsu, emphasizing that he strongly suspected Bishop Obinim’s men to be the architects of the attempted murder.

Alarmed by the threats on his life, the 23-year-old Pastor pointed out that he lodged an official report with the Suame Police who immediately took his statement.

He said since then, Obinim’s men had hunted him at all locations known to them, with a view to eliminating him so that the truth would not come out- which development had forced him to go into a hideout.

The young Pastor alleged also that Bishop Obinim engaged him and other two young pastors, namely Charles Abankwah and Willie, to bring three people from some parts of the Volta region, who were chloroformed so they would go into coma.

Frank claimed that these people who were paid GH¢500 each during church services, were prayed for by Bishop Obinim and they instantly regained consciousness.

DSP Kwaku Duah, the Suame Divisional Crime Officer, told DAILY GUIDE that Bishop Obinim’s statement had been taken and he was granted police enquiry bail.

Bishop Obinim flatly denied knowing Frank, and this perhaps infuriated Pastor Frank to use Schnapps and eggs to curse him right in front of the police station.

The police, he said, had ordered Bishop Obinim to produce three young pastors of his church, namely Charles Abankwah, Willie and Victor for questioning today.

DSP Duah said Pastor Frank, in his statement, alleged that he carried out some diabolical acts for Bishop Obinim with the aforementioned persons; hence the need for them to come to the police station for questioning.

He expressed his outfit’s desire and readiness to do proper investigations to unearth the truth of the matter.