Apostle Kwabena Owusu Agyei, Founder and Leader of the Hezekiah Apostolic Payer Ministry, who allegedly threatened to kill Mrs Jean Mensah, the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), has been remanded by an Accra Circuit Court.
The self-styled man of God is also said to have insulted President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.
He has been charged with threat of death, offensive conduct to the breach of peace, and possessing narcotic drug.
He is said to have threatened the life of Mrs Jean Mensah after insulting her and the President.
He has denied all the charges and would make his next appearance on June 23.
Police Sergeant Frederick Sarpong, told the court presided over by Mr Emmanuel Essandoh that the accused, on Thursday, June 4, made a live video of himself on Facebook and YouTube threatening to kill the EC Chairperson if she went ahead with the compilation of the new voters register.
In the same video, he rained insults on Mrs Mensah and the President.
The Prosecution said, the police got a copy of the video, obtained a court order, and arrested him at GREDA Estates, Nungua, where he was speaking to radio journalists in an interview.
A search conducted on him, uncovered a quantity of dried leaves suspected to be Indian hemp.
Source: GNA
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Well said Dr. KK
Democracy is not license to anarchy and threats. Democracy need peaceful environment to thrive and grow. As much as some of our compatriots are of the view that we should allow 'freedom of speech", each speech comes with responsibility, the beauty of democracy. Mrs. Jean Mensah has a democratic right to life and it is the state responsibility to protect each and every citizens' right to life. The apostle man of god threats to killing Mrs. Jean Mensah if she should go ahead to perform her national democratic duties as a commissioner, is contra to the tenants of our democracy as a country. If the apostle man of god, Kwabena Owusu Adjei, has any contrary opinion, the best place is the courts not threats, or any act that disturbs the peace of our country and the very democracy he proclaim to practice. True democrats do not support violence as the means to achieve our objectives but rather reasoning and rule of law. God bless Ghana,