Criminal Case Of Akufo Addo’s Spiritualist Adjourned To October 5

The case involving Rev. Owusu Bempah, a self-acclaimed spiritual advisor to President Akufo Addo has been adjourned to October 5, 2021.

This is after prosecutors told the court on Monday that the State wants to amend the facts of the case and charge sheet of the case in which the controversial founder and leader of the Glorious Word Ministries International is standing trial with four others on charges including issuing death threats.

Prosecuting Chief Inspector, Simon Terkpetey, had prayed the Circuit Court in Accra to give the Police a week to effect the amendment.

However, Counsel for Rev. Owusu Bempah, Gary Nimako, prayed the court to adjourn the matter to October 25, as the accused is on bail.

Presiding Judge, Mrs. Afia Owusuaa Appiah, had replied that the next court sitting will determine how long the adjournment will take.

According to the Judge, October 25th will be too long a time to return to court since the prosecution wants to amend their charges and fact sheet as the plea of the accused person will have to be retaken.

The Court, therefore, decided on October 5 as a compromise date.

Owusu Bempah and the other accused persons were jointly charged with offensive conduct to the breaches of the peace. 

But Bempah is facing a charge of threat of death. Last week he had been granted bail in the sum of Ghc200, 000.

His alleged accomplices, Mensah Ofori, Adu Berchie (at large), Michael Boateng, Frederick Ohene, and Nathaniel Agyekum Boateng, have been variously charged with assault on public officers and threat of death. They are all on a Ghc200, 000 bail each.

Apart from Berchie, all the accused persons have pleaded not guilty.

Owusu Bempah and the four had allegedly stormed the house of fetish priestess turned Christian evangelist, Patricia Oduro Koranteng, aka, Agradaa, amidst threats.

Video footage of their invasions captures some of them holding offensive weapons.

The report by the Police stressed how attempts to apprehend the preacher resulted in an attack on the officers present.