Prophet Nana Kofi Yirenkyi aka Jesus One-Touch, the pastor who was acquitted and discharged recently after being in jail for a little over two years for allegedly having sex with his daughter, has called on the National Chief Imam, Sheikh Osman Nuhu Sharubutu, describing the spiritual leader as a great man.
Soon after his release from the Nsawam Medium Security Prison, he came to the office of the DAILY GUIDE to announce that he would like to visit the Islamic cleric because of how his visit to the Nsawam Prison contributed spiritually towards his freedom.
At the Chief Imam’s Fadama residence last Thursday, where he was well received by the Islamic cleric, he narrated what happened when the old man visited the prison.
The Islamic cleric had gone to the Nsawam Prison to commission a borehole project initiated by Ghanaian Muslims resident in New York, USA on that fateful day.
“When I heard that the old man was coming something struck me. I felt that the visit would be in my interest and so before he even arrived I positioned myself at a point in the prison near the entrance. Although prisoners are not allowed to stand at the location, I had a concession because of my pastoral work in the confinement,” he said.
He said he followed the Chief Imam to the point where the commissioning was going to take place and greeted him.
The National Chief Imam cut a tape to declare the project duly commissioned “and at that point I was convinced that my freedom was not far away after greeting him. I told my colleagues about how I felt.”
When freedom eventually came not long after the Chief Imam’s visit, he said, “I had benefited from the holiness of this great personality, something I foresaw earlier.”
During an interaction with the Chief Imam, he said Muslims in the country should be grateful to God for having such a great man leading them.
“Muslims might not know the value of this great while he is living. It is only when he is no more that his value would be adequately appreciated,” he said.
He called on the Chief Imam to join him in calling on President John Evans Atta Mills to turn his attention to the Nsawam Prisons, where he said many persons were being held for crimes they did not really commit.
According to him, in prison it was easy to find out those who really committed crimes for which they were being held and those who did not. “Those who committed crimes actually mention it. They are able to confess about their crimes. Those who did not openly say so,” he said.
Periodic examination of cases at the prison would bring out such facts with a view to seeking the release of innocent ones, he added.
He announced his intention of establishing a fund for the assemblage of money and other items for the comfort of inmates.
Jesus One-Touch asked the National Chief Imam to invite him for his programmes, which he said he would readily attend.
In his response, the National Chief Imam thanked the pastor for the visit and assured him that he too had thrown his weight behind the request that a certain mechanism be put in place to study such cases with a view to releasing innocent persons being held for crimes they did not commit.
The visit was rounded up with a prayer by the host. Jesus One-Touch is founder and General Overseer of the Jesus Blood Prophetic Ministry.
