It was mid-day on Thursday, a working day-and yet a bunch of these people are not at work, they’ve rather gathered at the house of Angel Bishop Daniel Obinim–who has spent the last two days in police cells for allegedly defrauding a man to a tune of Ghc 11.6m.
Obinim has been granted bail and his supporters are super excited–to the disappointment of many, the angel of God could not make use his celestial powers while behind bars to turn even into a house fly.
It’s been jubilation, though it does not seen the case is over yet.
So far, this is what we know:
Bishop Daniel Obinim handed himself over to the Tema Police two days ago, honouring an invitation extended to him following the report filed against him after flogging two church members.
He was reportedly charged with ‘physical and verbal assault’ for the flogging but he was soon transferred to CID Headquarters after his arrest, and it turns out the Police have another case against him.
An as yet unnamed man has reported the Bishop to police for fraud, after Obinim took family gold to the tune of Ghc 11.6m from him to help him retrieve some money, but failed to do so and did not return the gold as well.
The man, who seems quite loose with his money due to his extreme gullibility, said he went to see a fetish priest known as Okomfo Gyakpata and handed him Ghc 780,000 to be blessed, but after a while he realised the Mallam was not willing to give him back his money.
So after foolishly getting himself defrauded, in November last year, he went to see Obinim in June for help to retrieve the money from the Okomfo. Obinim asked him to bring the rest of the money, in the form of his family’s gold fortune, and he also willingly brought it and handed it over to the Bishop; gold valued at the Ghc 11.6m figure.
But he said since, Obinim has not been able to retrieve the money, neither has he been able to return the gold fortune. Thus he lodged a complaint with the Tema Police a few weeks ago, and it seems they have been biding their time to arrest him.
“Well, I must say that we have just commenced investigations into this fraud issue.” ASP Joseph Benefo Darkwa, PRO for the CID Department, told Joy FM late Tuesday.
“Now when we are done with this investigations, we will hand him over to our DOVVSU to also investigate the domestic violence issue,” he added.
Check out the video and photos below…
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