Tuesday, October 26, 2010 (Page 3)
THE Founder and General Overseer of the Jesus Blood Prophetic Ministry, Prophet Nana Kofi Yirenkyi, yesterday denied defiling his 10-year-old daughter and accused the complainant (the victim’s mother) of making up stories against her past lovers.
He said the complainant had three children with three different men, adding that the complainant’s ex-husband was currently undergoing a similar ordeal.
According to him, it was rather his security man who had sexual intercourse with the victim and as a result he (Prophet Onetouch) lodged a complaint against the security man at the police station.
He said he was accompanied to the police station by his wife and his stepchild, who had also been sexually abused by the security man, as well as a witness who had caught the security man with his daughter having sexual intercourse.
The accused person said he was taken aback when the victim’s mother hurled insults at him and refused to bring the girl to Accra upon police request because the girl had informed her earlier that he (accused person) had accused the girl of having been bewitched by her mother and grandmother to wage a spiritual war against him (Prophet Onetouch).
According to the accused person, as if that was not enough, the victim’s mother, instead of bringing the victim to Accra to press charges against the security man, rather lodged a complaint with the Akropong Police claiming that he (Prophet Onetouch) had defiled the victim.
Led by one of his lawyers, Mr Paul Owusu, to give his evidence-in-chief, the accused person told the court that the security man, who had pleaded for forgiveness in front of his (accused person’s) wife and other witnesses absconded after a complaint had been lodged with the police.
The accused person said he could not help but slap the security man in the face after the security man admitted inserting his fingers into the victim’s vagina.
Explaining further, Prophet Onetouch said he called the victim’s mother, who was by then living with the victim at Dawu in Akuapem, and informed her of the development and accordingly urged her to bring the victim to Accra to give a statement to the police.
According to Prophet Onetouch, the victim’s mother, on a later date, stated in the presence of two police officers that her daughter had confessed to having sexual intercourse with the security man.
Speaking in Twi, Prophet Onetouch said it was unthinkable and shameful for him to desire his daughter, worse of all have sexual intercourse with her.
“It is a shame to let my daughter see my nakedness. I have never been in the bedroom alone with the victim. She and the other children in the house share a different bedroom.”
He was so incensed he prayed the court to allow him remove his penis for the whole world to determine whether or not his daughter could stand it for a minute.
Denying a claim that he slept with his daughter three times a week, Prophet Onetouch said not even his wife enjoyed such a privilege.
In a typical Biblical mood, Prophet Onetouch quoted segments of the Bible to proclaim his innocence and further challenged God to severely punish him like He did to the Egyptians when the Egyptians refused to grant the Israelites freedom if it turned out that he (Prophet Onetouch) was telling a lie.
He also urged all men of God to pray for God’s punishment to be meted out to him if he indeed defiled his own flesh and blood.
He gave an itinerary of what he did on Tuesdays, Saturdays and Sundays, the days his daughter accused him of having sexual intercourse with her, and stated that he left the house at 4 a.m. on Tuesdays and Saturdays to preach on radio and then to his church premises for preaching and consultation and returned home mostly after 8 p.m.
Prophet Onetouch said he left the house early on Sundays with his wife while the victim and other children followed later in another vehicle.
He said the accusation levelled against him was a ploy hatched by his daughter’s mother to destroy his reputation as a man of God several years after she and her family had denied him responsibility for the pregnancy which resulted in the birth of the victim.
Narrating incidents which led to the victim being brought to his house, he said about a decade ago, the complainant, whom he was dating, informed him that she was pregnant and he expressed interest in performing the customary rites for her hand in marriage.
He informed the court that the complainant’s mother refused to allow her daughter to marry him on the ground that he (Prophet Onetouch) was a poor man sleeping in a wooden structure.
According to the accused person, the complainant decided to name a gentleman who sold fuel as the father of her unborn baby and as a result of that he (Prophet Onetouch) relocated to Accra, where he began ministering the gospel.
He said after having three children with three different men, the complainant, together with her elder sister, approached him four years ago after she had realised his life had improved tremendously and pleaded with him to accept the victim because, according to her, the victim was his child.
Prophet Onetouch said he initially refused and advised the victim’s mother to approach his family and formally inform them that the victim was his child but after incessant pleadings, he agreed to accept the victim into his family.
The accused person said the victim stayed with his elder sister for a year but his sister always complained the victim wet her bed and so he and his wife decided to take custody of the victim.
During cross-examination from a Chief State Attorney, Ms Helen Kwawukume, Prophet Onetouch said the victim was in his custody until July, 2009, when the complainant came for her.
Hearing continues on November 3, 2010.
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