The 2001 story of how an evangelist said God asked him to destroy Komfo Anokye’s statue

Things of the spiritual can mostly be unfathomable to the physical mind, and very much so, not many people fully understand a lot of the things that people who are more in tune with the supernatural do.

That mystery, in one breath, is entirely understandable, but in other cases where spiritual people give weird excuses for doing things in the physical, it questions everything normal about them, or maybe about the sources of their otherworldliness.

There was such a story in the Wednesday, August 1, 2001, edition of the Daily Graphic with the headline, ‘Evangelist damages Komfo Anokye statue,’ and the story to this occurrence was one that did not quite make sense, as it were.

According to the 31-year-old evangelist, Kwame Sarfo, he destroyed parts of the Komfo Anokye statue in Kumasi under instructions from God.

The details of the story said that Sarfo, with a Bible and hammer in hand, had gone to the Komfo Anokye Roundabout in Kumasi, climbed the platform and used the tool in his hand to destroy the lower left arm of the statue.

“Prosecuting, Chief Inspector R A A Larbi said the accused, an evangelist of the Christ Living Temple, who hails from Obuasi, was spotted at 6 am at the Komfo Anokye Roundabout, holding a Bible and a hammer.

“He said Sarfo later climbed the erected platform on which the statue is erected and used the hammer to break the break the lower left arm of the statue holding a whip,” a snippet of the newspaper that was recently shared on X by the Daily Graphic showed.

But his actions surprised many, expectedly.

When interrogated later, also after he had been rescued from a growing crowd at the scene, Evangelist Sarfo reportedly said his action was inspired by a vision from God.

“Chief Inspector Larbi said in a caution statement, Sarfo said God, in a vision, ordered him to destroy the statue,” the report added.

It is unclear how the story ended, but the Ashanti New Town Community Tribunal at the time had ordered for a medical examination to be conducted on the young evangelist to ascertain his mental fortitude.

According to the judge, S K Achina, the outcome of that examination would determine “whether or not prosecution of the suspect should continue.”

See the newspaper snippet below:



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