Self-acclaimed evangelist Patricia Asiedua alias Nana Agradaa will remain in police custody for a longer period of time after being remanded by an Accra court in a separate case brought by the Ghana Police Service.
In two different cases, she has now been remanded into custody three times.
The traditional priestess turned evangelist was detained last Sunday on suspicion of defrauding attendees of her Weija, China, Heaven Way Church.
In the first instance, Nana Agradaa was arrested on October 10th, 2022, and brought before the court by the police.
She was placed in police custody by the court and ordered to appear again on October 13th.
The accused was brought before the court by the police on the specified date, and she was again remanded for reappearance on October 17, 2022.
The accused was brought before the court by the police on the specified date, and she was again remanded for reappearance on October 17, 2022.
Police issued a statement saying, “In the second case, the accused was again arraigned before the court on Friday, October 14, 2022 and has been remanded into police custody to reappear on October 24, 2022,” but they omitted to say what charges she was facing.
I’ve not defrauded anyone; I only did fundraising – Nana Agradaa
Patricia Asiedua, a self-styled evangelist, had denied cheating or duping her churchgoers.
In a previous video, she gave an explanation of her actions, claiming that she had actually invited churchgoers to the service last Friday and distributed funds to assist them with their various businesses.
She added that on Friday, October 7, 2022, she would be inviting anyone who was interested in receiving assistance to attend church, embrace Christianity, and join the congregation.
Last Friday, she claimed, there was also offertory fundraising.
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Therefore, if new members who were attending church for the first time wrote their names, offered money to support the church, and received nothing in return from her, they should count that as new members because their opportune time will undoubtedly come, and they should not attribute that to fraud.
She refuted the claim that the members’ voluntary contributions of GH1,000, GH800, GH700, and coins to the offertory during the church service constituted fraud.
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