I knew a day will come when Angel Bishop Obinim will disgrace his father-Jesus Christ, and prove beyond reasonable doubt to his credulous bunch of religious zealots that he’s the definition of a scam, built on the back of his non-existing angelic powers and miracle rhetorics.
What I didn’t know was that the day was just at the corner and yesterday was everything those of us who have long ridiculed and abhorred Obinim’s insane methods have been patiently waiting for.
It was exhilarating, somewhat pitiful to see a powerful man of God, a Bishop with angelic powers as his epithet in handcuffs and still shouting “Jesus is victorious.”
If Jesus being victorious is you having been handcuffed for fraud and spending a night behind bars with a bunch of starving Nima mosquitoes, then that’s a forlorn victory.
Even in his usual small than his size hot coloured suit, Angel Bishop Obinim looked so woebegone—same as his sidekick.
For a few hours, every media house in Ghana reported that Obinim had been arrested for the infamous and widely condemned flogging of two teenage church members—with credit having quickly gone to Nana Oye Lithur and the others who lodged official complaints and lawsuits against the charming charlatan.
Then spokespersons from Ghana Police Service erased the inaccurate reportage, graciously serving Ghanaians with a new fact, that the man of God who claims to be able to visit banks in spirit and lift monies for further distribution to his church members had been arrested for defrauding a complainant to a tune of GHc 11.6 million.
Whatever the charges were, I was sure it wouldn’t hold for the simple fact the case will run into jurisdictional crisis. How can an angel of God be arrested, with intention to be trailed in our jurisdiction? That’s indeed if Obinim is anything he claims to be—on the back of which he has amassed so many followers who he incessantly robs under the cunning religious notion of tithe and offering.
Also, it was getting dark and I knew we will soon be told angel Obinim has turned into a snake, a wind, a cockroach or a bird and has flown out of his police cells—making the various police officers on duty look incompetent and stupid for attempting to hold an angel hostage.
To be frank, I felt uncomfortable that Obinim was going to be kept in a cell with other detainees. What if he turns into a cobra out of anger and decides to bite everyone police officer including his “innocent” cell mates?
The joke I believed was going to be on Ghana Police Service—from everything Obinim claims to have done, with his church members always providing corresponding testimonies of his celestial powers, I slept with my phone’s alert on, waiting for that breaking news.
It turned out that, we waked up to see Bishop Obinim still coiled behind bars. The angel was not visited at night by angel Gabriel, neither was he able to turn into a common house fly to smoothly sail through those metal bars.
Perhaps, Jesus was busy and so God came down Himself to the Police cells but He couldn’t identify his servant, Obinim, because he almost looks like a white man today.
The truth has always been that, Bishop Daniel Obinim is not an angel and he does not have any celestial mandate or authority. He’s just a smart con-man like the many others, exploiting human insecurities, fears and desires for a better after life—aided by religion to cultivate a farm of fortune.
He’s a scam who couldn’t call his God, father-Jesus and the legion of angels being housed in heaven to come to his aid when he was being mocked by “infidels” and man made law.
The problem however is, this wouldn’t change him or cut short the number of his followers—more will join his train, on which the thick kool aid of gullibility is constantly served.
Excellent article Chris, I’m so glad he’s behind bars, they should keep him there for life, he’s one of the biggest swindlers in Ghana right now defrauding poor people out their money and exploiting them. I don’t trust any pastor in Ghana and when I go to Gh for holidays I don’t go to any of their churches.
Obinim will never change and his followers won’t either. So sad