We did not assassinate Evangelist Amoako- Dr Tetteh

Accra, Oct 7, GNA - Dr. Lawrence Tetteh, Evangelist In-Charge of the World Miracle Outreach, London, on Wednesday denied that he was contracted by the erstwhile PNDC to murder Akwasi Amoako, a Kumasi-based evangelist and critic of the regime.

Eric Gyimah, a brother of the late Amoako at a recent sitting at the National Reconciliation Commission (NRC) in Kumasi alleged that Dr Tetteh had confessed the murder.

Gyimah in his testimony at the Commission mentioned Reverend Kwabena Kodua as an accomplice to Dr Tetteh in the alleged killing of Amoako who died in a motor accident in March 1990.

However, Dr Tetteh, at a news conference in Accra, said he was not in the country, but was studying outside Ghana when the accident occurred.

Dr Tetteh said: "we have in no way confessed to anyone in private or public of being party to a plot, scheme or conspiracy to eliminate the late Evangelist Amoako or any other person at any point in time in our lives.

We wish to categorically assert that the allegation is totally unfounded, fallacious and mischievous."

Dr Tetteh explained that Evangelist Amoako was their "father in the Lord" who helped him (Tetteh) and Kodua convert into Christianity and that they later joined Amoako in establishing his new Ministry at Santase in Kumasi in the early 1980's.

He said they helped Amoako to establish branches of the Ministry around the country and that "it was ridiculous to suggest that after becoming leading officials of the same organization and subsequently helping in successfully establishing the outfit in Accra... the same persons would be hired by someone to accept any such assignment or be suggested to undertake any such diabolical mission."

Answering a question as to their link with the PNDC, Rev Kodua, Pastor of the International Charismatic Church in Accra explained that they served in various capacities under the PNDC as members of the standing committee of the governing National Defence Council. He said one Nana Doku Woode first introduced the two of them to Amoako who was then not in the limelight, adding, "he was not known to the nation at that stage and could not have attracted any national enmity from any quarters to the extent of being a target for assassination."

The two therefore, described the death of Evangelist Amoako as divine saying, "we believe he was called by God, because the Tagoe-sisters who were involved in the accident were saved divinely". They said when Gyimah was contacted, he denied the allegation and therefore, they have requested for the transcript from the NRC for verification and subsequent action.