Obinim Arrested
When news of the arrest of Bishop Daniel Obinim broke on Tuesday, many believed it was for flogging two teenagers in his church for aborting a pregnancy But it appears self-proclaimed angel is facing another charge at the National Police Criminal Investigations Department for allegedly defrauding a man of GHC11.6 million.
Obinim who on Tuesday was earlier charged by the Domestic Victims and Violence Support Unit, (DOVVSU) in Tema with physical and verbal assault for flogging the two teenagers.
After he had been released by the DOVVSU unit in Tema, the CID department at the Police Headquarters whisked him away to begin investigations into the alleged fraud case.
Bishop Obinim was said to have demanded the said amount from a gold dealer whose name is not known yet and promised to assist him to collect GHC78,000 from a fetish priest, Okomfo Gyakpata.
In an exclusive interview with Kasapa News, CID PRO, ASP Benefo Darkwah said the Gold Dealer had consulted the fetish priest in November of 2015, on a family gold business deal that had 780, 000 cedis in proceeds and he wanted some deity rights done over the said amount. Subsequently, the Fetish Priest failed to help out. The gold dealer then reached out to Obinim to help him retrieve the said amount from the Fetish Priest, spiritually.
Obinim asked the Gold Dealer to part ways with an extra 11.6 million cedis, being remaining sum from the sale of the family gold treasures, if he is to help him out. He failed to work magic for him afterwards, leading to a compliant being lodged for his subsequent arrest today.
“… I must say that we have just commenced investigations into this fraud issue. Now when we are done with this investigations, we will hand him over to our DOVVSU to also investigate the domestic violence issue,” ASP Joseph Benefo Darkwa told Accra-based Joy FM.
Meanwhile, reports suggest that the founder of the International Godsway Church will be kept in the cell overnight and interrogated Wednesday.
