Embattled founder of International God’s Way Church, Bishop Daniel Obinim, will spend another night at the Nima Police Station as police prepare documents to prosecute him for flogging two church members.

Lawyer for the controversial Ghanaian pastor, Samuel Atta Akyea, told Joy News the police have decided to charge him for assault.

He said flogging is a “misdemeanor which is not a serious offence that warrants being detained.”

Bishop Obinim has been battling a fraud case few hours after he reported to the Tema police on Tuesday to help investigate circumstances leading to the flogging of the two church members.

The police say the pastor popularly called “angel” by his congregation allegedly defrauded a man in a  GHS11.6 million gold business scam.

He was transferred to the Police Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in Accra for a brief interrogation but was later sent to the Nima police station where he spent  the night on Tuesday.

On Wednesday morning, he was sent back to the CID office for a marathon interrogation on the two issues.

But Mr Atta Akyea said the police have decided to charge him for assaulting the two children he flogged in church and in the full glare of the congregation.

Venting his frustration, the lawyer who also double as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Abuakwa North constituency, said he did not understand why the police denied his client bail.

“You cannot detain somebody on matters you know are watery,” he said, adding, the police are not handling the issue as professionals.

Nonetheless, he said Bishop Obinim is undaunted and has said he is innocent because what he sought to achieve was to correct the children and this was not done out of hatred.

Joy News’ Komla Adom who was on the scene said the police have made an arrangement for a re-enforcement at the Nima police station to control the crowd that is growing by the minute.

Later on Wednesday one of the supporters was arrested for interfering with the work of the police when they tried to disperse the crowd.