A 27-year-old policeman, Constable Kenneth Kwadwo Amankwa, met his untimely death at the sanctuary of Apostles Continuation Church at Kintampo in the Brong Ahafo Region. Amankwa was allegedly strangled to death by members of Assembly ‘B’ of the church last Sunday. Constable Amankwa, currently facing dismissal from the Police Service after a convict escaped from his hands went to the church to seek God’s intervention as regards keeping his job. He was allegedly tied up and whipped thoroughly by some church members because he was behaving strangely. The Kintampo District Police Commander, Superintendent Prosper Amoah Ayisi told the DAILY GUIDE newspaper that the police had picked up four elders of the church, including the pastor, for questioning. The Commander however declined to mention the names of the suspects, saying, "It is premature to give details". The paper however says investigations uncovered the names of three of the suspects as Kofi Antwi, popularly called 'Jesus is the owner'; Elder Opele, on whose land the church is located; and Elder Tuffour, a filling station manager at Kintampo. The fourth suspect's name could not be established. Superintendent Ayisi said the police were looking for the Pastor of the Christ Foundation Church, to whom Amankwa was sent later. He revealed that the police had a report last Sunday, May 18 that the deceased had a "high fever" so he went to the Apostles' Continuation Church in Kintampo for prayers and subsequently became violent. The District Commander said the deceased's mother was invited by the church, whereupon she directed that her son be sent to another church, Christ Foundation Church. Speaking to DAILY GUIDE in Kintampo, the deceased's mother, Elizabeth Dansowaa, an Assemblywoman for Kintampo Market Square, alleged that she saw about eight men tie her son with a rope at the Continuation Church premises. She narrated that at about 2 0' clock on Sunday afternoon, as she was preparing to go to town, a member of the church, Kwadwo Sarpong came to inform her that her son had been severely beaten by members of the Continuation Church and if she did not act swiftly, the son might lose his life. Madam Dansowaa said she quickly went to the former assemblyman for the area so that he would accompany her to the church, but did not meet him. She said, "I therefore asked the man from the church to accompany me and there I saw these men standing around my son, tied with a rope, whilst his neck, hands and legs were gripped firmly by the men. "I shouted, My son! You people have killed Kenneth,' but they would not mind me." Madam Dansowaa disclosed that she decided to convey Kenneth to her Pastor at the Christ Foundation Church. According to her, at the Christ Foundation Church, the Pastor in-charge, Mr. Emmanuel Sakyi, queried why Kenneth had been brought dead. She said Pastor Sakyi then prayed for Kenneth and later went and sat under a tree in his house, until family members including Nana Fei came to the pastor's house, where they saw that Kenneth had passed away. Nana Fei, on hearing all that had happened, rushed to the Kintampo Police and reported the incident. Madam Dansowaa explained that earlier when her son went to the Continuation Church, after he was asked to fast for three days, the pastor in-charge prophesied to him that he would soon be reinstated as a policeman, but his boss would shoot him. The mother said immediately this information was passed to Kenneth, he began screaming, saying be would make it known to the media. "Immediately after this, Pastor Antwi ordered the young men in the church to tie him up," the mother disclosed. The resident doctor at the Kintampo Government Hospital, Dr. Damien Punguyire, who examined the body, the deceased had his left arm and neck broken. He attributed the cause of death to broken neck, and added that one of the veins in the neck that circulate blood to the body had broken. Nana Fei, in his statement to the police, stated that an elder of the Apostles' Continuation Church called Opele, accompanied by other members of the church who had a meeting with Kenneth's family, disclosed that the pastor of the church was the one that ordered that Kenneth be tied because he was because he was wild when prayers were in session. Source: Daily Guide