General News of Monday, 28 January 2008

Source: -Kofi Safo Antwi, THE SUN

Minister Threatens Pastor

?Stubborn Man, Open Your Mouth And I Will Arrest You?

Central Regional Minister Ato Arthur has carelessly waded into the confusion that has rocked the Musama Disco Christo Church (MDCC), shedding off his cloak of neutrality by stretching himself taut to soil his paws.

Smarting under the tag ATOMATIC as he jostles for the MP slot for the Edina-Komenda-Eguafo Constituency, Mr. Arthur shamefully took sides in a supposed arbitration at his residence, where he sat to display bullying tactics.

Looking so apparently quick to align with the Miritaiah-Mordna Jehu-Appiah bracket of the Church, Minister Arthur descended into the gutter with threats to Rev. Alexius Alexius Jehu-Appiah, a son of the late AKABOHA II Prophet Dr. Mathapoly Moses Jehu-Appiah, and now the Public Relations Officer of the MDCC when indeed the gentleman was as blameless as the biblical Lamb of God. ?By looking at your face I can sense you are a stubborn man. If you dare open your mouth I will get you arrested,? the Regional Minister is alleged to have barked at the man of God.

Half-filled in the belly and apparently unsatisfied, Minister Arthur then turned his bark elsewhere. This time it was at Elder Yaw Broni also of the MDCC, who is presumed not to belong to the MIRITAIAH-MORDNA JEHU-APPIAH caucus. The Minister is said to have threatened to visit bouts of unpleasantness on him too. This time, unlike the veritable but ice-cool Alexius Jehu-Appiah who had been weakened by fasting, Elder Broni slipped on his manhood with an open challenge to the Minister.

Eye witnesses say, he told the Regional Minister to the face that he was nothing before a decimal point except that, he had the State?s backing he has opted to misuse.

Ato Arthur?s show of power-flexing in the presence of a few pretty women with a quantity of false hair on their Godforsaken heads would have been met with stiff resistance, if indeed he had gone on ahead to touch Elder Broni, Kweku Sam Abakrampa who was party to the whole episode told THE SUN, as he wiped off sweat from his nose ceaselessly.

?We would have returned his fire by calling his bluff, if indeed the use of state power was the only language he understood,? Abakrampa assured THE SUN. Background checks by THE SUN has established the fact that some 12 or so days ago, the MDCC had it on their calendar to hold a prayer and fasting period backed by a massive Crusade on the final day.

But a disgruntled faction within the MDCC which has consistently lost court cases against the Church?s established order, is alleged to have assembled a group of roguish thugs of no fixed addresses to disrupt the occasion. The Police were then said to have moved in quickly to quell any potential riot. After sometime when the peace officers thought peace and safety had returned and therefore withdrew, the group allegedly attacked an MDCC Minister of the cassock, Rev. N. E. K. Fuah, cracking his head with a missile in the process. Two Reverend Ministers, Boamah and J.F.K. Mensah were also allegedly physically assaulted by the brazen-muscled rampaging rogues, who could have done Ghana a world of good if they had concentrated their strength on farming. Meanwhile the new Akaboha IV, MoknaJeeba Fiifi Jehu-Appiah a Cambridge graduate whose trademark saintly and humility traits smell as fragrance even to the nostrils of heaven, has called for calm within the ranks of the Church.