Pastor Allegedly Hired A Woman To Pose As A Cripple Arrested For Fake Miracle

Fake pastor who allegedly hired a woman to pose as a cripple and ‘healed’ her during a church service has been arrested by the Odorkor Police.

The suspect, Jonas Abedi, 35, is being held together with the woman, Helena Donkor, 40, and three others.
The others are Enoch Mortey, 29, who posed as a pastor; Divine Kwadwo Columbus, 36, a self-acclaimed prophet, and Christiana Quainoo, 36, who posed as a sister of the cripple who had brought her to the church for healing.
Abedi was said to have performed the ‘miracle’ at a church he was visiting for a two-day programme.
The Odorkor District Police Commander, Superintendent of Police Mr Abraham Acquaye, told the Daily Graphic that the incident happened on Tuesday, November 11, 2014.
He said Abedi had been invited by the Founder of Power Explosion Chapel at Tantra Hills in Accra, Rev Ewurama Annan, after the two had established contact through Facebook, a social media platform.
He said Abedi, who claimed to be a Ghanaian pastor based in New York in the United States of America (USA), and Rev Annan had been communicating through Facebook for a while.
“In one of their chats, Abedi told Rev Annan that he had been invited by a church in South Africa for a  programme and was scheduled to visit Ghana for another programme with a church in Kumasi, after which he would want to pay her a visit,”  Mr Acquaye said.
He said Rev Annan informed Abedi that her church had been holding services on Sundays and Tuesdays and wanted him to be the guest speaker on November 11.
About two weeks later, Rev Annan received a phone call from Abedi that he had arrived in Ghana and was done with the Kumasi-based church.
Mr Acquaye said Power Explosion Chapel hosted Abedi and his two pastor friends in a hotel for the programme, which was held on Sunday, November 9 and Tuesday, November 11, 2014.
“During the service on Tuesday, Abedi asked the congregation if there was any sick person in the church and Quainoo responded that she had brought her crippled sister,” he said.
The pastor, Mr Acquaye said, led the congregation to pray for the sick woman who had come to the church with crutches and was unable to stand on her legs.
After the church had prayed, the police commander said, the pastor asked her to walk, and instantly the woman was able to walk and even jumped without the crutches and support of her sister.
Other miracles
Earlier, the commander said, Abedi had called a young man from the congregation and told him that he was involved in the use of charms to seduce older women and that he was in the church because of a woman.
“To prove a point, Abedi said the young man was carrying the charm and a condom in his pocket and asked him to bring them out. The man brought out a substance and a condom,” he said.
Another man was also said to have been called to the front of the congregation, after which Abedi mentioned the name and the telephone number of the man and revealed other personal details, to the surprise of the congregation.
However, Mr Acquaye said, the founder of the church told the police that she became suspicious after the service, since all the people Abedi ministered to were not members of her church.
She, therefore, detailed some elders of the church to monitor those people and Abedi.
At the end of the service, the woman who had been healed carried her crutches and put them behind a waiting four-wheel drive vehicle at a filling station near the church where she waited with her supposed sister.
The other two men also joined them, while the church elders monitored and saw them making phone calls.
Shortly after, a man walked to them and gave them money, which the elders suspected to be payment for their services.
With the help of the Odorkor District Police night patrol team, the elders managed to apprehend the two women, while the  two men bolted.
The pastor and his two friends were later arrested at their hotel.
Mr Acquaye said on interrogation, Helena and Christiana confessed that they had been contracted by a lady who gave them the crutches and asked them to put up the charade for a fee of GH¢50 each.

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Posted: at 14-11-2014 09:53 AM (9 years ago) | Hero

No be today thing naa. This has been their way in nigeria.

Posted: at 15-11-2014 01:15 PM (9 years ago) | Upcoming

 Ghanaians, i hail thee. Gradually following the footsteps of your senior brothers and sisters in Nigeria. This fake pastor named Abedi is a joke. He is destroying the reputation in the name of the great Abedi Pele, the legendary footballer of Ghana

Posted: at 15-11-2014 01:56 PM (9 years ago) | Upcoming

ok

Posted: at 15-11-2014 03:07 PM (9 years ago) | Addicted Hero

no be today.all dis padstors just dey pad everywhere

Posted: at 15-11-2014 03:17 PM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac

U known say people wants instant miracle,so,it is by force to perform miracle 4 the people to see to drawn more populations to church.Church things na business now.

Posted: at 15-11-2014 03:30 PM (9 years ago) | Upcoming

newbie,grow some balls and start reasoning lyk a human being in ur comments.

TONTO MAS GRANDE DE MUNDO.IDIOTA DE PLANETA.

Posted: at 15-11-2014 03:52 PM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac

Femjay my Bro. Pls take it easy don't be like them. Let them attack first before you respond. I know everybody is now fed up with them but take it easy and let them attack first

Posted: at 15-11-2014 06:01 PM (9 years ago) | Upcoming

 

Posted: at 15-11-2014 09:39 PM (9 years ago) | Addicted Hero

Nawa o

Posted: at 15-11-2014 10:50 PM (9 years ago) | Hero