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Friday, March 11, 2016

Rev. Anani Boadum: Deal with pastors who disgrace the gospel
Audrey Agyiri-Inkoom, Ghanadot

Accra. Nov 30, Ghanadot - The General Overseer of the Jesus Generations Sanctuary Church, also an executive member of the Ghana Pentecostal Council, Rev. Nana Anyani Boadum, has called on the Christian Council of Ghana to act swiftly and deal decisively with some ‘Men of God’ and prophets who are attracting negative publicity for the Church.

The man of God says “the Christian council is being too lenient on these people” and until the council puts its acts together “some people will continue to disturb the faith.”

He has therefore suggested that the council holds an emergency meeting within the shortest possible time to strategize on how best to deal with the unfortunate development.

“We need to have an emergency meeting to strategize and see how best we can go about it. Look at the noise making in the communities, these are worrying situations and the Christian Council, the Ghana Pentecostal Council, and other Christian bodies are behaving as if nothing is happening in this country…We have become too lenient on these people.”

The Christian community has attracted negative publicity in recent times following some controversial acts being perpetrated by leaders and General overseers of some Churches in the country.

In the latest of such developments, the General Overseer of the International Godsway Church in Kumasi, Bishop Daniel Obinim was on Saturday, November 28, invited to the Suame Police Station in Kumasi to answer questions on an alleged plot to bury snakes and bones suspected to be human parts at the church premises of a rival pastor, Prophet Ebenezer Adarkwa Yiadom, at Ahenema Kokoben, a suburb of Kumasi.

A complainant, Frank Annor, narrated to the Police that he was contracted by Bishop Obinim last month to bury the bones and some candles at the worship centre for a fee of GH¢4,000.

But according to Annor, Bishop Obinim failed to honour his part of the contract. Annor, who was persistent in his attempt to get his money, rather suffered attacks on his life which, he said, made him report the matter to the police.

Commenting on the issue, Rev. Anyani Boadum described the alleged incident as a shame and said the happening “places a dent on the body of Christ in this country and erodes the confidence of new believers.”

“You hear that these men of God do call on other deities to even swear and curse one another. That betrays them that they may not belong to Jehovah; if the allegations are proven to be true…we need authentic Christian leaders to move this nation forward. We don’t need pseudo prophets as frontline Christian leaders to try to distort the work of evangelism and the missions for which people have died and stood for. ” He added.

Ghanadot