The loudmouthed pastor Kwabena Owusu-Agyei who was caught in a fiery outbursts against the Electoral Commissioner (EC) Jean Mensah has been formally charged by an Accra Circuit Court for alleged threat to life and possession of narcotics.
In court documents dated June 9, 2020, and sighted by Whatsup News, the embattled pastor has been slapped with three counts, including a count that on June 4, 2020, he uttered words “with intent to put Mrs. Jean Mnsah [Electoral Commissioner] into fear of death, did threaten to kill the said Mrs. Jean Mensah.”
The court also charged him for offensive conduct “to the breach of public peace”. The last count has to do with the curious case of allegedly discovering substances believed to be narcotics on his person.
The 56-year-old preacher was picked up today, June 9, 2020, in a Rambo-styled arrest by about half a dozen men claiming to be from the National Security Agency. Apostle Owusu Adjei was conducting a live interview with media organisations in his home when he was bundled away by the men brandishing a warrant.
A few days ago, Apostle Owusu-Agyei started trending in a viral video showing him raining expletives at the EC boss for her alleged bias for the NPP.
According to him, he had a spiritual revelation that confusion being brewed by the EC boss will cause the blood of the “Akyem Mafia” faction in the NPP to flow.
“…It is the blood of the Akyem Mafia that will flow. There are two ways that I see: If we allow Akufo Addo and his stupid Jean Mensa..that Stupid girl, that idiot of a girl…go ahead and do the new register, she [Jean Mensah] will die 12 midday. She will die just like that!”
In a rather daring challenge, he fired the EC boss, saying: “You are an idiot. I, Kwabena Owusu Agyei, I am telling you today. Try it and you will see. What kind of nonsense is that? You think you are better than us Ghanaians?”
A fuming Apostle Owusu-Agyei was clearly peeved with what he regarded as the EC boss’ uncompromising stance to compile the suspicious new voters’ register widespread opposition to the plan.
Whatsup News has seen old videos of the same clergyman predicting doom and gloom in the past. In July 2015, he asked Ghanaians to vote out the then-President John Dramani Mahama to avert a possible coup d’état that he said he saw in a prophecy.
Shortly afterwards, when President Akufo Addo beat John Mahama to the Presidency in 2016, Apostle Owusu-Agyei was at it again. This time, he was seen by the graveside of President Akufo Addo’s late father.
He was poured libation to the tomb of the late Edward Akufo Addo, in a bizarre prayer to avert a possible death of President Akufo Addo while serving his first four-year term.
He was not arrested during these two previous occasions, prompted critics to question if what he has said a few days ago was more serious than how he is reputed to make his utterances.
This time, the Akufo Addo government is particularly jittery about strong dissenters to the plan of the EC to compile a new voters’ register. Already, two people have been invited for questioning by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) for daring to warn dire consequences for the compilation of the new register.
Bernard Monarh of the People’s National Convention and Major (Rtd.) Boakye Gyan of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) have been whisked to the CID for questioning.
The EC is pushing through a couple of constitutional instruments that will invalidate the current voter ID cards and make it impossible to be used to register in the new voter roll.
But critics have pointed out that with the proposed restrictions to primary documents needed to re-register, the EC is likely to disenfranchise millions of Ghanaians from voting in December