Nana Agradaa shows up to testify against Owusu Bempah

Controversial fetish priestess Nana Agradaa was present at the Accra Circuit Court today (3 March 2020) to testify against the Leader and Founder of Glorious Word Power Ministry, Reverend Isaac Owusu Bempah.

Nana Agrada known in private life as Patricia Oduro Koranteng, is a victim of an alleged assault and misconduct perpetrated by Rev Owusu Bempah.

The preacher and his accomplices are standing trial for what the police described as “offensive conduct conducive to breach of peace and threat of death”, following their arrest on 13 September 2021.

In all, Rev Owusu Bempah and the others Mensah Ofori, Michael Boateng, Frederick Ohene and Nathaniel Agyekum are facing six counts, charges they have pleaded not guilty to.

While Owusu Bempah and Mensah Ofori were charged with two counts of offensive conduct and threat of death, the remaining three were charged with assault on a public officer.

It would be recalled that in September 2021, a viral video on social media had Rev. Owusu Bempah and some members of his church members storming the residence of the fetish priestess.

The two had earlier traded words on social media.

“Nana Agradaa says she will teach me a lesson, so I came here so that she deals with me. When I got there she was home, so I dared her to come down. When I got there, she had a gun, but my boys seized it. I told them not to shoot else, she would have been dead by now.

“She called the police and I explained myself and the commander intervened. I did not go to fight but she threatened me,” the preacher was heard in one of the videos.

The preacher and his boys were refused bail initially. But they were granted bail after subsequent applications.

The case has been adjourned to 24 March, following calls for the case docket to be sent to the Attorney General’s office for perusal and advice.

Why the church leader and his entourage are in court?

A police team stormed Rev Owusu Bempah’s church on Sunday, 12 September, to arrest the suspects in connection to multiple videos containing threats and brandishing of weapons.

The church members are said to have allegedly assaulted some of the police personnel under the direction of Rev Owusu Bempah.

In a statement, the Director-General of Public Affairs of the Ghana Police Service, ACP Kwesi Ofori, said the injured cops had received medical attention and responded to treatment.

The police assured that “impartial investigations shall continue in this matter and the public will be duly updated”.

Several videos have been circulating on social media in which junior church pastors brandished weapons amidst threats to attack Nana Agradaa, a fetish priestess who claims to be born again.

In one of the videos, two persons were seen issuing threats against Nana Agradaa and dared her to reveal her location for a clash.

The other waved a foreign-made pistol as he indicated that they were ready to face Nana Agradaa’s men.

In another video, the man who flashed the pistol claimed he had a licence for the weapon and could use it at will.

He vowed to “finish” anyone who would cross his path.

In the Twi language, he claimed laws do not work in Ghana, for which reason one could commit murder and escape punishment.

“In Ghana, you can kill someone and walk freely. It was my property I brandished, and no one can do anything about it.”

Prior to that, Rev Owusu Bempah and some men had besieged the Kokrobite residence of Nana Agradaa. They threatened to beat her up for raining insults on the head pastor of the Glorious Word Power Ministries International.

Nana Agradaa stayed indoors for hours, and Rev Owusu Bempah was heard saying that Nana Agradaa had failed to show up.

After some minutes, Nana Agradaa appeared on top of her storey building and recorded a live video on social media about Rev Owusu Bempah’s presence and armed thugs at the premises of her residence.

A team of law enforcement officers were dispatched to the scene to ensure calm.

Rev Owusu Bempah was later heard in a video saying the “battle had started” and threatened to deal with Nana Agradaa.

He explained that his junior pastors had responded to Nana Agradaa’s insults several times, but he was “ready” to face her personally.