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The Search for Greener Pastures | 6 Men Defrauded by Pastor Who Promised to Send Them Abroad

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This morning we found out how Ghanaians love patronising foreign second hand clothes, to the detriment of the local textile industry. That issue speaks to the love of Ghanaians for everything foreign, to the extent that people would go heaven and hell to find a way to leave this country even without any guarantees of what is waiting for them on the other side.

This proverbial search for greener pastures has landed six individuals in hot water, as a ‘man of God’, Pastor Kwame Wura Bempah of the Christian Faith Vineyard, has been arrested by police for defrauding these people to the tune of GHc 304,020. The good pastor had promised these individuals that he could arrange travel and employment for them in the United States of America.

Now the economy is hard and everything, but if I could raise the amount these individuals had I would probably find a way to make some more money out of it down here in Ghana, but maybe that’s just me. Anyway, it seems it was a pretty elaborate scheme that got these guys, as they were taken to the American Embassy for their fingerprints to be taken, probably giving them the impression the whole process was legitimate and above board.

Our victims fell into this scheme by answering an internet ad about a US company needing people for employment. With the aid of two accomplices, the pastor collected the money from the applicants, monies meant for visa processing and other expenses. However on the day of travel, our pastor was not answering his phone and the case was reported to the police.

The sad thing is there are people like these who are being swindled by con artists every single day. They come in all forms, so one being a pastor does not really classify the process as legitimate.

As for the ‘pastor’, he went into hiding but has been arrested by the police. I would not even go into the logistics of a supposed pastor being at the midst of such a case, because I think we have seen enough over the last week to make anyone wary of some of these ‘spiritual’ leaders.

You have to feel sorry for these six people, and hopefully the court gets them their monies back. However it’s not all the time that leaving for supposed ‘greener pastures’ is going to work out, and certainly we should be more careful when dealing with these ‘too good to be true’ offers the internet is ripe with.

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3 thoughts on “The Search for Greener Pastures | 6 Men Defrauded by Pastor Who Promised to Send Them Abroad”

  1. They want to go to America? Otwiaa like them. On a serious note, these pastors are becoming problems in our Ghanaian societies. The pastor should be put behind bars for a long time

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  2. Yea these pastors are really putting the name of good ones in disrepute… In these hard economic conditions hmm

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