Aflao, Emmanuel Amegashitsi, 35, a pastor of the Aflao based Faith Revelation Church, who allegedly took GHc5,000 from a woman he promised to marry and later jilted her for being obese, has been charged with fraud at the Aflao Circuit Court.

The money was to make arrangements for their wedding.

Amegashitsi pleaded not guilty and he would reappear on January 5, 2012.

Amegasitsi was granted bail in the sum of GHc6,000 by the Court presided over by Mr Francis Obiri.

Mr Michael Akemo, Detective Police Sergeant of Aflao told the Court that the complainant Dzifa Amegashi, 31, is a caterer, who fellowships at Amegashitsi’s Church.

He said Amegashi had confided in the Senior Pastor of the Church that she wanted a virtuous and God fearing man for a husband.

Detective Akemo said the Senior Pastor hinted Amegashitsi who was also said to be looking for a woman to marry.

The Prosecutor said Amegashitsi and Amegashi therefore entered into a love relationship.

Mr Akemo said Amegashitsi sometime this year told Amegashi that he needed a loan of GHc 5,000 to put their marriage plan in motion and pleaded with her to contact her mother for help.

He said Amegashi’s mother had just received payment for a house she sold to the Senior Pastor, where Amegashitsi was staying.

Mr Akemo said Amegashi was able to convince her mother to give her the amount, which she in turn gave to the pastor in her mother’s presence and was issued with a receipt.

Mr Akemo told the Court that on December 7 this year, Amegashi visited the pastor with a view to passing the night with him as part of his birthday celebration, but her request was turned down by Amegashitsi, who told her that he had fallen out of love with her, because she was too fat for his liking.

Mr Akemo said Amegashitsi drove Amegashi out of his room and returned her birthday gifts on the third day.

Mr Akemo said Amegashi then demanded her five GHc5,000 but Amegashitsi told her that there was no such transaction between them and challenged her to go to court.

Mr Akemo said Police investigations established that Amegashitsi acquired two motorbikes from that GHc5,000 which were being used to commute passengers.