Obinim No Case submission ready

Bishop Daniel Obinim, founder of Godsway International Ministry, and his two associate pastors, who allegedly vandalised the property of Hot FM, an Accra-based radio station, yesterday filed and served their submission of no case on the state.

Ralph Poku-Adusei, who held brief for Samuel Ata Akyea, counsel for the suspects, informed the trial judge, Justice Abdulai Iddrisu that they had just filed their submission.

The State Attorney, Joyce Bueko Debrah, consequently asked the trial judge to adjourn the case to enable them look at it and respond to it accordingly.

The case was accordingly adjourned to February 5, 2015.

The bishop was not in court himself except his two associate pastors, Kingsley Baah and Kofi Kwetey.

When asked where the bishop was, the court was informed that he was on his way. However, he failed to arrive before the case was adjourned.

The investigator in the case, Detective Inspector Bismark Adu- Gyamfi, finished his evidence last year in the case in which the three suspects—Obinim, Baah and Kofi Kwetey—are being tried.

Samuel Ata Akyea had told the court that they would file a submission of no case in the matter to have the case against the suspects dropped because the evidence by the prosecution had so far failed to link the suspects to the offence.

The investigator had denied claims that the crowbar allegedly used by the bishop was his invention.

The accused persons reportedly vandalised properties, including transmitters and amplifiers estimated to cost Ghc130,580.