Rev. Isaac Owusu-Bempah
The prosecution is set to call its first witness in the trial of General Overseer of Glorious Word Power Ministry International, Rev. Isaac Owusu-Bempah, and three others on January 19, 2022.
The prosecution filed and served all disclosures as well as statements of witnesses they intend to rely on for trial on all the accused persons and their lawyers.
When the case resumed, the prosecution led by Chief Insoector Dennis Terkpetey, told the court that they were ready to call their first witness in the person of Okaija Welbeck Dauda, a police officer.
Nana Benyin Ackon, who held brief for Gary Nimako Marfo, counsel for the accused persons, indicated to the court that they were served with all the trial documents for now.
The court presided over by Her Honour Rosemond Baah Tosu, therefore, adjourned the case to January 19, 2022 for commencement of trial.
Rev. Owusu-Bempah is on trial for allegedly instigating an assault on some police officers who attempted to arrest the accused persons as a result of events flowing from alleged threat of death issued out to fetish priest turned evangelist, Patricia Oduro Koranteng aka Okomfo Agradaa.
Court documents indicate that following the events at Agradaa’s house, the police identified two of the accused persons in a viral video as some of the people who had brandished pistols during the commotion.
The facts of the case indicated that the complainants who are police officers had visited Rev. Owusu-Bempah’s church at Sakaman, Accra, to arrest Mensah Ofori and Bright Berchie but when they got there, another team of plain clothed officers had already arrested Mensah Ofori and taken him to the Dansoman Police Station, in Accra.
“The first accused (Rev. Owusu-Bempah) on seeing the police personnel ordered his church members to beat and kill them. He further ordered the church members to march to Dansoman Police Station to free Mensah Ofori,” the facts of the case indicated.
It continued that “some of the church members set upon the police and beat them up amidst firing of gunshots, disarmed the police of two service rifles and vandalised Toyota Corolla saloon car with registration number NR 9602-20. Four police men were injured in the process and admitted at the Police Hospital for treatment.”
It added that investigations led to the retrieval of one of the service weapons from a church member while the second weapon was retrieved through the help of the Station Officer of Dansoman Police.
By Gibril Abdul Razak