Obinim trial adjourned to October

The High Court hearing the case involving Bishop Daniel Obinim, the founder of Godsway International Ministry, who allegedly assaulted a radio panelist at Hot FM, an Accra-based radio station, has adjourned the matter to October 14, 2015.

This was after the court, presided over by Justice Abdulai Iddrisu, was informed that the state had been served with the address filed by Samuel Ata Akyea, counsel for the bishop.

The bishop was not present but had sent a message to the court to complain of ill health.

The State Attorney in the case, Joyce Buerko Debrah, was not in court due to the strike action embarked on by state attorneys in the country.

The accused had told the court in his evidence that he compensated the panelists of Hot FM who were at the studio when he and his boys stormed there in 2011.

The bishop said his church elders informed him that the panelists had asked for compensation.

Obinim said this under cross-examination by Mrs Joyce Buerko Debrah.

He explained that Kwame Katakyie, the host, Shadrack Adu, and a certain Amoako told his elders that they could determine the outcome of the case so he should compensate them.

He said he consequently compensated them through his church elders, but did not disclose the amount involved to the court.

The bishop in his evidence in chief stated that he went to the station to clarify issues on allegations of marital infidelity against him which were being discussed there, but was rather assaulted and pushed out of the station.

The pastor said he never saw any crowbar at the station and did not have any bodily contact with Kwame Ntim, the panelist who alleged that he (Obinim) had harmed him.