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Attorneys for the International Church of God’s Way (IGWC) senior pastor, Bishop Daniel Obinim, who is facing forgery charges in Kaneshie District Court, have told the court that their client is seeking medical attention.
According to the defense attorney led by Mr. Louis Yiadom Aboagye, Bishop Obinim was supposed to travel from Kumasi to Accra for the hearing, but “got worse” and was seeking medical attention, hence his absence.
“We have communicated our difficulty to the prosecution and have agreed with them that he will appear at the next postponed date,” Mr. Aboagye, who was brief for Obinim’s lawyer, told the court, chaired by Rosemond Dodua Agyiri when the case was presented. . hearing on Monday, November 16.
Subsequently, the case was postponed until December 17, 2020.
Bishop Obinim and one Kwabena Okyere were separately brought before the Kaneshie District Court in Accra and charged with publishing false news and falsifying documents contrary to Section 159 (c) of 29, 1960.
The two who have pleaded not guilty, along with three other fugitives, face four counts of conspiracy to publish false news, conspiracy to falsify documents, publication of false news and falsification of documents.
The defendants allegedly forged and published a police search form for the arrest of one Isaac Opoku, a resident of Kumasi in the Ashanti region.
Acts
According to the facts available to the court, Bishop Obinim allegedly forged and published a police person search form against a man in Kumasi without official endorsement.
Said wanted person form with the details of the alleged fugitive named Isaac Opoku, which according to court documents, circulated on the social media pages of certain people linked to Obinim, including Kwabena Okyere.
To deposit
The alleged forgery of police documents by Bishop Obinim, according to the prosecution, resulted in about GH ¢ 51,280 that he allegedly deposited in Isaac Opoku’s bank account.
According to court documents, Bishop Obinim transferred GH ¢ 49,160 of the amount to his Kaizer Bank account in Spain, but it was later returned to Opoku’s bank account in Ghana.
Opoku then used the money, claiming he did so because of a promise Obinim made in front of his congregation to buy him a car.
It was the exchange that followed Obinim’s efforts to recover the money that led to the alleged falsification of the police document.
Key suspect
Kwabena Okyere was later arrested by the police after it emerged that the alleged wanted police form appeared on his Facebook page under the name “Angel Obinim Ba Kobby Fireman”.
The complainant in the matter, according to court documents, followed up on the publication at the Police Headquarters but was told that the police did not issue any such form.
The alleged forged posts were later deleted by the owners of the Facebook pages but the complainant, according to the prosecution, had already taken screenshots of the pages.
Kwabena Okyere reportedly went into hiding until his arrest in Kumasi.
“A subsequent verification on Facebook during the defendant’s interrogation revealed that the Facebook account ‘Angel Obinim Ba Kobby Fireman’ had been deleted,” the court document revealed.
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