Patricia Asiedu Asiamah, aka Nana Agradaa
Convicted fetish priestess turned pastor, Patricia Asiedua aka Agradaa, has written to the Office of the Attorney General seeking a plea deal in a trial in which she is accused of sharing naked pictures of Emmanuel Appiah Fomum, a ‘Prophet’ on live television while making mockery of him.
Agradaa is before the court on four counts including non-consensual sharing of intimate image contrary to Sections 67(1) of the Cybersecurity Act, (Act 1038).
Three others, Enock Owusu Kissi, 33; Charles Omane alias One Gig, 39, and Emmanuel Kofi Gyasi, 47, are also charged with abetment of crime namely; non-consensual sharing of intimate image.
Agradaa, who is already serving a 15-year jail term for defrauding by false pretences, is seeking to reduce the number of years or fine the court would impose on her if found guilty at the end of the trial.
A High Court presided over by Justice Mary Yanzuh has already ordered the accused persons to open their defence after holding that the prosecution had made a prima facie case against them to warrant a defence.
The court had ordered her to file witness statements for witnesses she intended to call to testify for her.
However, the court pointed out yesterday that it had received a letter indicating plea negotiations had been initiated with the Office of the Attorney General.
Justice Yanzuh therefore, adjourned the case to October 21, 2025, to await the outcome of the plea negotiation.
Trial
Prosecution document presented to the court indicates that Agradaa, who owns Thunder TV, sometime in 2021, hosted a programme on her TV station “and intentionally showed the naked pictures of the prophet, who is the complainant in the case, on live TV and made mockery of him with all the other accused persons who were panelists on the said programme encouraging her on the course.”
The said programme was also streamed live on YouTube and Facebook, where a witness in this case saw it and informed the complainant about it.
Agradaa also intentionally distributed intimate images of the complainant to a witness in the case by name Nana Brown via WhatsApp.
Court documents further state that “The first accused (Agradaa) also published the nude pictures of the complainant which she had designed in the form of a product label of a drink (bitters) for sale on Thunder TV.”
BY Gibril Abdul Razak