Apostle Kwabena Owusu Adjei
The prosecution in the trial of self-acclaimed pastor and sympathiser of the NDC, ‘Apostle’ Kwabena Owusu Agyei, who threatened the life of the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), has asked the court to review his conditions.
This was after ASP Sylvester Asare told the court that the accused person has failed to report to the police every Monday and Friday of the week as part of his bail terms as ordered by the court.
‘Apostle’ Agyei was granted bail of GH¢100,000 with three sureties, two of whom must be public servants earning not less than GH¢2,000 every month and also ordered to report himself to the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service (GPS) every two days—Mondays and Fridays.
But appearing before the court yesterday, ASP Asare told the court presided over by Emmanuel Essandoh that the accused person had failed to fulfil that aspect of the bail terms and prayed the court to review the bail conditions to enable him to comply with the directive.
However, his lawyer, Victor Adawudu, told the court that to the best of his knowledge, his client has been reporting to the police as ordered by the court.
He assured the court that if it turns out that that was not the case, then he would speak with the accused person who was in the courtroom to make sure he reports to the police as ordered by the court.
Meanwhile, the case has been adjourned to November 16, 2020 for continuation.
Main Trial
The self-acclaimed pastor and sympathiser of the NDC who was arrested with marijuana (wee), a narcotic substance in his possession, is before the court facing three counts of threat of death, unlawful possession of narcotics and assault on public officer.
He threatened to kill the EC Chairperson if she went ahead to compile a new voters’ register, and luck eluded him when in the course of his arrest, the security agents found the narcotic substance which later tested to be wee on him.
‘Apostle’ Owusu Agyei caused a stir when on a live Facebook broadcast he said he would kill Mrs. Jean Mensa for daring to compile a new voters’ register for the 2020 presidential and parliamentary elections.
He threatened Mrs. Mensa to stop the compilation of the new register or die young at midnight, although he did not mention any specific day.
The ‘apostle’ was arrested on June 9, 2020 by some officers of the National Security while he was granting an interview to a journalist with Hot FM.
In a video circulating on social media, some men who claimed to be from the National Security were seen moving into the house of the NDC pastor to arrest him at Indomie Junction at Teshie Greda Estates in Accra.
Things took an interesting twist when a video went viral which suggested that security officers found parcels of a substance suspected to be marijuana (wee) on him later on.
The brief facts of the case as read by ASP Asare showed that the Chairperson of the EC, Jean Mensa, on June 5, 2020 made a complaint to the police that the accused person had made death threats against her in the performance of her statutory duties.
He said intelligence led to the arrest of the accused person at Greda Estates in Accra while granting an interview to some journalists.
He stated that a search conducted on the accused revealed a suspected aphrodisiac medicine labelled ‘Mr. Q’ and two brown wrapped substances suspected to be narcotic plants.
BY Gibril Abdul Razak