The Attorney-General’s Department has asked the police to dispose of the criminal case against Pastor Daniel Obinim, Head of the International God’s Way Church in Kumasi, and three associate pastors who were arrested for assault. They were alleged to have conspired to attack one Frank Annor after they had allegedly contracted him to perform some rituals at a rival pastor’s prayer camp in Kumasi in November last year. Annor was said to have been tasked by the suspects to bury suspected human bones, a dead snake and candles at the prayer camp of Rev Ebenezer Adarkwa-Yiadom of the Ebenezer Prayer Ministry at Ahenema Kokoben in Kumasi. According to the A-G, there was no evidence to initiate criminal proceedings against the suspects. The three others are Charles Abankwa, Victor Obrempong Amankwa and Fofi Kofi William. According to the A-G there was, however, evidence on record to proceed against the complainant, Annor, for the offence of deceit of public officer but it advised against his prosecution based on some stated reasons. These were contained in a letter from the A-G’s Department, signed by a Chief State Attorney in Kumasi, Mr William Kpobi. The letter, a copy of which was made available to the Daily Graphic, was a response to a petition filed by Dennis Adjei Legal Consult, solicitors for the suspects, which petitioned the A-G against the conduct of investigations into and intended prosecution of the suspects. In November 2009, there was drama at the Suame Police Station in Kumasi when Annor invoked the Ashanti river deity, Antoa Nyamaa, to curse the self-professed Bishop Obinim for denying that he had once sent him (Annor) to perform some rituals at Rev Adarkwa-Yiadom’s prayer camp at Ahenema Kokoben. Annor, who claimed to have worked with the bishop not long before then, alleged that the bishop had asked him to bury suspected human bones, a dead snake and candles at Rev Adarkwa-Yiadom’s prayer camp. Bishop Obinim and Rev Adarkwa-Yiadom, two popular men of God in Kumasi, had then engaged each other in a war of words on radio and television over which of them was the more powerful and who was the truer man of God. The police said Annor had alleged that he had been contracted by Bishop Obinim to bury the bones, a dead snake and some candles at the Ebenezer Prayer Centre for a fee of GH¢4,000. Annor claimed that after doing the job, Bishop Obinim failed to give the money to him and instead got some people to attack him, a development which prompted him to report the matter to the police. Annor led police investigators to the area where the alleged ritual had taken place and the items were exhumed. Even though Bishop Obinim persistently denied ever knowing Annor or sending him to bury the said items, Annor insisted on his allegation and further accused the Bishop of stage-managing his supposed miracles. Annor further alleged that Bishop Obinim had contracted people from the Volta Region to be paraded as those he had healed of various ailments. Source: Daily Graphic