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Arrest Pastors whose directives lead to loss of life - Pratt

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  • PRINCE KWASI ADADE 10 years ago

    UNTIL PROVED OTHERWISE, I SAY, GHANAIANS VOTED FOOLISHLY----------"IT IS ONLY A FOOL, WHO ALLOWS HIS TESTICLES TO BE STEPPED ON, TWICE"-------GO OUT THERE AND RECEIVE YOUR REWARD, ALL GHANAIANS. GO AND PAY THE PRICE FOR YOUR ...
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  • Original Gaby Bruk 10 years ago

    Ghanaians are not civilised people, Ken Kuranchie
    General News of Tuesday, 16 July 2013
    Source: peacefmonline

    Chronicling the events that unfolded during his incarceration, Ken Kuranchie has expressed doubt about the civ ...
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  • kabokabo 10 years ago

    I think Pratt is numbering his own days.
    He needs repentance and deliverance before its too late.

  • Kwankwa 10 years ago

    The example Pratt cited demands an urgent investigation into the matter. If indeed the pastor discouraged the sick woman from taking her medication, then he should be jailed immediately. A lot of religious leaders are fooling ...
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  • OSEI TAWIAH 10 years ago

    Jehovah's Witnesses refuse blood infusion for their sick children which quite often leads to their death. Should we prosecute them too?

    It's a question of crime versus religious freedom. I believe what Pratt is saying shou ...
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  • usa 10 years ago

    God bless you that it you have said it all thanks

  • MAN OF GOD 10 years ago

    TB JOSHUA HAS KILLED MANY PATIENTS INCLUDING ATTA-MILLS. MANY PEOPLE DIE LIKE PRATT SAID ALL THE TIME. A MAN I KNOW BECAME BLIND BECAUSE HE LISTENED TO HIS ASTOR. WE ALL KNOW SICK PEOPLE LIKE THIS.

    THESE ILLITERATE PASTORS ...
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  • PAA 10 years ago

    Thieves. What npp are looking for is to come to power to loot the nation's resources. Now where is the npp communication team? No more useless responses. Npp thinks Ghanaians have soon forgotten when they were stealing gold, ...
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  • PAA 10 years ago

    Npp will soon die and a new party formed in its place. What npp are looking for is to come to power to loot the nation's resources. Npp thinks Ghanaians have soon forgotten when they were stealing gold, money, land and other ...
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  • MAN OF GOD 10 years ago

    WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE PASTOR? THIS ASTOR NEEDS TO BE EXPOSED. HE MIGHT KIL ANOTHER PERSON. LET US KNOW WHO THIS PASTOR IS.

    THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR FAR TOO LONG. ARE WE WAITING FOR AN OUTSIDE NGO TO TACKLE THIS PROBLEM ...
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  • Concerned 10 years ago

    I am scandalized that Ghanaians would not care about the dead woman but condone murder in the name of Christ. On TV our people are being disgraced by Pastors in the name of healing. Govt please act now, no fears pls. Save our ...
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  • MAN OF GOD 10 years ago

    AS WE SPEAK, PEOPLE ARE DYING IN CHURCHES ALL OVER THE NATION. THESE JSS DROP-OUT PASTORS ARE CAUSING UNNECESSARY DEATHS. ALL CHRISTIANS HAVE TO HELP STOP THEM. GOVT HAVE TO ACT.

  • Kwame 10 years ago

    Many more people are dying in the Hospitals and Clinics. Do we prosecute Doctors? In religion, there is free agency. It's the individual's choice to take or not to take blood transfusion etc (ref JWs). Kwesi is making a story ...
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  • MAN OF GOD 10 years ago

    Many more people are dying in the Hospitals and Clinics.

    BE HONEST WITH YOURSELF, KWAME. I KNOW MANY WHO HAVE DIED BECAUSE OF ILLITERATE PASTORS WHO LITERALLY TRANSLATE THE BIBLE. MR PRATT HAS A VALID POINT HERE. MANY ARE ...
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  • Concerned 10 years ago

    Who are you asking to act. These bastards are only concerned about themselves. Are you really concerned about one woman. In the past, you have praised that jato who killed 1000s. Cant't you think?

  • tyson 10 years ago

    PRATT IS ON POINT, A PASTOR IS NOT A DOCTOR , AND HAS NO RIGHT TELLING SOMEONE TO STOP TAKING THEIR MEDICATION, IT IS ABOUT TIME PEOPLE SMARTEN UP AND STOP TREATING THIS PASTORS LIKE THEY HAVE DIRECT PHONE NUMBERS TO CALL GO ...
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  • Mactonto 10 years ago

    Original Gaby Bruk, do note that appreciation is a human need. If you are a Ghanaian, you should recognise that there are a lot of Ghanaians who, upon reflection, think that the deportation of Nigerians in the 70's should not ...
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  • First time in everything. 10 years ago

    This is very first time , Kwasi Pratt has talked sense. Since there is first time in everything I would congratulate him for having now a sound mind to seek and tell the truth deep down from his heart.
    Coming to our illite ...
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  • etweba 10 years ago

    who is God and where does he live.? Don't get me wrong because where I live the people don't talk about God or Jesus at all but they live real good life.
    Only in Ghana that people talk about God.
    The bible and whatever r ...
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  • Mensah, Mensah 10 years ago

    How many of these charlatans have been ordained by God?. Most of them are imposters, false prophets and self-ordained religious leaders. They take advantage of the poor, the elderly, youth and in particular, the the vulnerabl ...
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  • ODIKRO BA 10 years ago

    I WILL BE BRIEF. THIS MAN U R SO PROUD OF, HOW COME HE WENT TO LAW SCHOOL AND YET HAD NO CLASS MATE? IF YOU TAKE THE YEAR GROUPS ONE BY ONE, IS IT POSSIBLE THAT NO YEAR GROUP CAN HAVE EVEN ONE PERSON WHO CAN REMEMBER HIM? SOM ...
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  • Ericus-Ericus 10 years ago

    Greedy Pratt - call for the arrest of Yaw Boateng Gyan, Nii Lantey Vandapauye, Ben Ephson, and all the NDC communicators first. "Blind journalist like you." I think You just hate God and his servants and followers.

  • ken 10 years ago

    this guy is high on drugs or got a high fever

  • ACRI Mate 10 years ago

    well said my bro, he needs to be examined. Going against men of God is a clear indication that something is wrong somewhere. Pratt things he some body in ghana but nothing, he is nobody. Poor fante man with a foreign rented n ...
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  • Nana Ansah 10 years ago

    When will you stupid faithfools stop following blindly any self-proclaimed, self-appointed so-called "men of God" who blurr the verses in the Bible to suit their own self-absorbed purposes?

    When will you faithfools stop fo ...
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  • Yarchoe 10 years ago

    You have said it all. I don't understand this religious thing with black people, especially Ghanaians. Well said.

  • princo 10 years ago

    U dont get the argument -- a pator's directive leads to 3 kids losing their mother. So is it wrong for him to talk about it. Ghanaians dont like the truth!

  • Rev Assama, USA 10 years ago

    This pastor has killed the mother of three innocent children. What an evil pastor. The pastor has to be prosecuted. He has to be handed over to the police.

    So when a pastor steals money, touch not the Lord's anointed" so w ...
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  • 911 10 years ago

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAA LOOOOL

  • captain 10 years ago

    pratt you talk too much, you talk more than everybody in the country. why.

  • krikri 10 years ago

    Akufo Addo who cries ALL DIE BE DIE and the primitive Owusu Afriyie,who calls himself sir john. Didnt you hear Otabil? He said all persons who believe in all die be die are BAAAAAD COMPANY

  • Yarchoe 10 years ago

    If you have stopped reading anything that Kwesi Pratt writes then you are missing common sense. The man is absolutely right. Why are people afraid of the truth? Be wise a lot of these pastors are just businessmen and women ...
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  • Yarchoe 10 years ago

    I think you are one of these pastors to call this sensible man Kwesi Pratt stupid. Open your eyes to see what these pastors are doing to Ghanaians in the name of religion especially our women. Be wise.

  • OBURONIBA FITAFITA 10 years ago

    First this big mouth must call for the arrest of his friends - those thieves who are sewriously bent on looting this country - the politicians,and idiots who think of their selfish ends over our national wellbeing. Most of t ...
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  • OBURONIBA FITAFITA 10 years ago

    Must read Annointed

  • kpeglar 10 years ago

    this stupid idoit can say anything.ano boot ugly man can say ugly things

  • MAN OF GOD 10 years ago

    THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR A LONG TIME. MANY PEOPLE HAVE DIED. PEOPLE ARE STILL DYING IN CHURCHES ALL OVER GHANA.
    ARREST THE PASTOR.

  • kb 10 years ago

    who is this idiot Prat. Don't we have better things to be put on Ghanaweb than all the bull shit this prat has been saying? I have stop reading anything on the web. written are said by prat

  • Justice ATUGUBA 10 years ago

    After the petition in the SC ended, one could see that Afari Gyan stole the parliamentary elections too for the NDC candidates. So for the NDC to claim that they won 8 out of the 10 regions is totally lies. If the NPP parlia ...
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  • nana 10 years ago

    PRATT U ARE SO STUPID

  • Rev. Jantuah 10 years ago

    Paa, get your head properly screwed on and stop being blind and ignorant. I am sure had the victim, i.e the poor mother who died be your mother, sister, aunty, a friend or a loved relative, your response would have been diffe ...
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  • Obosomba 10 years ago

    It seems to me Mr. Pratt is one of the intelligent Guys in the country who mention things by name. In anyway he is not a coward.These false prophets and pastors all should be dealt with severely when they break the law as nar ...
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  • Frank Dodam 10 years ago

    Thank you
    We need brave more of Pratts
    Simon Wiesenthal said after the holocaust "For evil to flourish it takes good men to do nothing "
    We all know the damage these men of God are causing to our society yet we fear to r ...
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  • kwaku 10 years ago

    problem of this country is that , most people are so gullible and feeble-minded that, all it takes for you to swindle them is to mention the name of Jesus. you could even tell some people Jesus has instructed you to sleep wit ...
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  • BRAVEBOY 10 years ago

    LITTLE BY LITTLE AS WE SPREAD THE GOOD MESSAGE. THE EYES OF THEIR UNDERSTANDING WILL BE ENLIGHTENED.

  • OSEI TAWIAH 10 years ago

    Thank you Braveboy, yours is the most simple and sensible comment ever on this issue. Like it is said in the Bible itself, there is time for everything. Churches in Ghana are thriving today because they are the only form of e ...
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  • OSEI TAWIAH 10 years ago

    Sorry folks, it is "keep down the stress"

  • Kyei Baffoe 10 years ago

    The level of science education isw very low in Ghana. Our educational system does not producer practical thinkers, so we are easily fooled. WE are a non-questioning people. Those who know do not teach. we leave the teaching t ...
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  • Kwadwo Mante 10 years ago

    Mr Kwesi Pratt was right. And those of you calling him names are suffering from delusion. Wake up Africans! We're not living in prehistoric times!

  • ACRI Mate 10 years ago

    may god strike you immediately. Foolishman from foolish family. Mentementeni aboa!

  • ASAASE 10 years ago

    God will strike the azaa Pastor who has sent the poor woman to his grave. He will bless Pratt for saying the truth.

  • kwaku 10 years ago

    IF ALL PASTORS WERE AS HONEST AS PRATT THE PROBLEM IF THIS COUNTRY WOULD HAVE REDUCED CONSIDERABLY.
    ALL THESE SO CALLED MEN OF GOD ARE NOTHING BUT CON MEN, PARASITES WHO MAKE NO DISTINCTION BETWEEN THEIR PREY AS TO THEIR FIN ...
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  • ASAASE 10 years ago

    to her grave

  • Beema 10 years ago

    I think you are really one of those pastor stealing from those poor people. You need to stop nu else The Almighty God will strike you first.

  • Nana Kwame 10 years ago

    THIS IS TRUE! AND NOT ONLY THAT, THEY CAUSE FINANCIAL LOSSES TO POOR FAMILIES! PROSECUTE THEM,MAKE THEM DECLARE THEIR ASSETS!

  • Osei Bonsu 10 years ago

    Most of these pastors are suffering from personality disorders so what they spew out are the effusions of a mad man.certainly there is a contributory negligence from the patient who should have used his God given brains.Havin ...
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  • SKY IS 10 years ago

    pratts thinking.

  • Justice ATUGUBA 10 years ago

    Nigerians, Mosquitoes and Flies

  • Gifty 10 years ago

    May God for give Mr. Pratt for the words he is using against the men of God in this country. He should remember the word of God saying touch not my anointed and do no harm to my prophets. He should not joke with God. Shalom!

  • KNYC (USMC) 10 years ago

    Tell me Gifty, who on earth is not a man of GOD. There is no Prophet on earth as of this TIME. Read the BIBLE, and take your time to understand it. Don't let anybody interpret it to you. The is no Middleman between you and GO ...
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  • Rev Assama, USA 10 years ago

    These pastors are supported by followers like Gifty who do not read the Bible themselves but are fed lies by these illiterate pastors.

  • kumasi boy 10 years ago

    if your name is rally gifty then you are foolish stupid whore. How many pastors have you and your mother slept with.

  • yerp 10 years ago

    what is god for you gifty?

  • Concerned 10 years ago

    Anybody who commits a crime should be arrested. That includes you rat. Question is, are your hands clean? It is just a disguised attack on Otabil.I am quite certain rat is a crook. sooner rather than later,you will end up in ...
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  • SKY IS 10 years ago

    because the guy is a pratt(a fool)that is a meaning of a pratt. he lakes thinking.

  • MAN OF GOD 10 years ago

    CONCERNED, YOU HAVE NO POINT. A THIEF IS ARRESTED FOR STEALING AND HE HE SCREAMED- WHAT ABOUT THE OTHER THTIEVES?

    LETS HANDLE THE IGNORANT ILLIETRATE PASTORS NOW. ANY CRIMINAL SAYS TOUCH NO THE LORD'S ANOINTED.

  • Concerned 10 years ago

    Man of God,you share the same views as me.Is it not annoying that one criminal is pointing fingers at others. especially when he has no proof

  • DON'T ANNOY ME! 10 years ago

    what about if a so-called ''senior journalist'' deliberately tell lies about a citizen the he smokes wee and is covered with a CLOUD of smoke early in the morning?

  • atta kofi 10 years ago

    i dont blame pratt but hosts who invite he pratt to come on air and do the prat pratt prattt nonsens

  • Kwesi 10 years ago

    I agree with you Kwesi but the problem is that those who may have to give the order to arrest are equally intoxicated by that thing call religion, the bane of our development.
    I think the government should start banning them ...
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  • atomic 10 years ago

    the so called men of God are in bed with the politicians, milking the poor dry; politicians thru taxes, and the pastors taking the rest thru offertory and tithe. the politician and pastors owm many mansions and fleet of cars ...
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  • Kofi UK 10 years ago

    Mr Pratt I agree with you wholeheartedly. If these pastors are held responsible for their foolish advice they give, ignorant people like that woman would not die unnecessarily. You do not find this in Methodist, Presby, Roman ...
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  • KNYC (USMC) 10 years ago

    This is funny. Took a mortgage for 25 years, and telling this people, world will end in six months. hahahahah this is funny. Yes, that is how he see them (Morons).

  • ghanaba 10 years ago

    Ghanaian should not waste their time on this demon possess Pratt because he is a gay.

  • Obibini Blackman 10 years ago

    This issue should be dealt with, in a civil suit by the family if there is proof.

  • KNYC (USMC) 10 years ago

    Pratt you are right on this one. All pastors who do such an act should be arrest. As Pratt said “Now, if a Pastor behaves this way If a so-called man of God conducts himself in this manner; That man of God is no different ...
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  • Law Abiding Citizen 10 years ago

    This man must be a pratt! I do not suppose Mr Pratt is proposing any new law. Just that it is the onus of prosecutors to prove that someone has committed a crime by advising a patient not to take prescribed drugs. It may be e ...
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  • GENERAL YONI 10 years ago

    Iam really Against Pastors who in a twinkle of an eye separate children from their mothers by Shamelessly telling children their mother is a witch

  • clarence 10 years ago

    Since when did some of these pastors became men of God, to me most of them have just be stored on themselves titles that they do not deserve but who are you to challenge them, they are self styled Bishops, men of God, some o ...
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  • Owu 10 years ago

    Well said, we need legislatures to combat so called men of God. It appears most of us are reluctant to probe their Pastors when they know definitely their preaching baloney to enrich themselves.It's about time.

  • paa 10 years ago

    HE HAS BEEN SMOKING SOMETHING BAD

  • SAM 10 years ago

    Maybe he has been smoking what Akufo Addo is well known for.The wee that Akufo Addo smokes every morning with smoke all over his head.

  • MAN OF GOD 10 years ago

    THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME A PASTOR HADS KILLED A PATIENT BECAUSE OF BOGUS VISION. STOP THIS. PEOPLE ARE DYING.

  • Kwame 10 years ago

    Comrade Kwesi Pratt it is a fact that in the Dark Ages in Europe the Catholic Church loosed anarchy on the whole of Europe by banning the use of even herbs to cure sicknesses. People were stoned for drawing the image of their ...
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  • JONES 10 years ago

    There are too many fake pastors taking advantage of gullible Ghanaians.By definition,who is a pastor and what are the qualifications of a pastor? How and where do they get their training? It is now a common saying that the mo ...
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  • CONCERN CITIZEN 10 years ago

    AS USUAL GHANAIANS DO NOT WANT THE TRUTH. PRATT IS RIGHT 1 BILLION %. THESE PASTORS ARE CRUEL. I FIND IT DIFFICULT TO BELIEVE THAT PEOPLE CANNOT SEE IF BEING CHEATED. WELL DONE PRATT

  • manotab 10 years ago

    What about stupid journalists like Pratt whose lies and utterances lead to death?

  • Nana Asare 10 years ago

    I THINK THIS PASTOR SHOULD BE PROSECUTED.

  • zomabi 10 years ago

    THIS GOES TO PROVE THAT GHANA AND FOR THAT MATTER AFRICA IS NOT CIVILISED, WE ARE FIRMLY IN THE THROES OF THE DARK AGES WHERE RELIGION HOLDS THE PEOPLE TO RANSOME, THESE ARE FEATURES OF THE DARK AGES THAT ENGULFED EUROPE MANY ...
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  • zongo president 10 years ago

    This guys lazy , they are liars . they are selfish, ghanaians wake up,this guys are making money out this poor ghanaians my advice to ghanaians that if you can read the bible read it, we are all children of god they are not ...
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  • NANA ADDO DANQUA AKUFO ADDO 10 years ago

    KWASI YOU ARE MY HERO, YOU ARE THE BEST. AND FOR THE ELECTION I KNOW THAT I LOST TOTALLY. PLZ HELP ME FOR THE NEXT ELCTION. I LOVE..............

  • JH New York 10 years ago

    You're right on this one.

  • BRAVEBOY 10 years ago

    Well said Kwesi Pratt. If it was any ones mother, he/she will understand Uncle Kwesi.

  • BRAVEBOY 10 years ago

    CORRECTION.. YOU WILL NOT GET IT

  • Kwame Aidoo 10 years ago

    Kwasi Pratt, what has bedeviled you that you have arisen against the men of God?! You are ignorant of God's word to Pharoah; who hated the people of God.It was therefore declared a curse upon him and all the Egyptians.You are ...
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  • BRAVEBOY 10 years ago

    WHY DO SOME OF YOU STILL STICK TO THIS BLIND 1980S STYLE OF CHRISTIANITY-- CURSING WHEN THE BIBLE CLEARLY SAYS BLESS AND CURSE NOT(ROMANS 12:14). WE DO NOT SERVE A VOODOO GOD.

  • Bob 10 years ago

    Nobody is immortal; we shall all die at God’s own designated time. The sad thing is that some people especially NPP think political power is life, forgeting that it is God who chooses leaders. I am still struggling to come ...
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  • lee tarzo 10 years ago

    this time around K.PRATT is very much right.any whose directives will lead to a death of an innocent person must be arrested and carefully investigated and jailed.I agreed 100% with MR PRATT.I believe that K, Pratt is making ...
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  • GBEVU 10 years ago

    PRATT IS ABSOLUTELY RIGHT, JUST CAST UR MIND BACK AT WHAT HAPPENED AT THE SPINTEX RD WHERE 4 PPL DIED NEEDLESSLY THEN YOU WILL UNDERSTAND. WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO THE CHURCH LEADERS FOR THAT DECEIPT? NOTHING. AND THE FAMILIES WI ...
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  • AWUKU,ACCRA 10 years ago

    Hi folks,why hurl insults at Pratt for speaking his mind?Truth is, these charlatans are taking advantage of you folks who are hurling insults at Pratt for saying the truth.Shine your eyes.

  • Nana 10 years ago

    I thank Kwesi Pratt for waking up Ghanaians and Africans from their slumber. The best water in which the so called men of people fish is the water full of ignorance. In fact, few Africans really worship God if they do then Af ...
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  • Nell - Professional in the US 10 years ago

    Thes pastors have no right instructing people on medical advise or interventions. Indeed, they must face the full rigors of the law if their ignorance and quackery result in the loss of lives. Thank you Mr Pratt.

  • JOHN NYARKO--- USA 10 years ago

    Why you don`t arrest them? Kofi Wayo and you,Kwesi Pratt are the MOST USELESS PEOPLE in Ghana.YOU don`t add ANYTHING,just NOISE MAKING.YOU people
    should give US BREAK.

  • Justman 10 years ago

    KWESI, IT IS SIMPLE, NOT ALL MEN OF GOD ARE GENUINE.MOST OF THEM ARE SHEEP IN WOLVES CLOTHING AND ARE EVEN THE ONES SUPERVISING THE TOTAL DESTRUCTION OF THOSE INNOCENT UNSPECTING ONES.EVEN SOMETIMES THE GENUINE ONE CAN GO AST ...
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  • FRED ANSAH 10 years ago

    I THINK THIS MAN PRATT IS SICK,INSTEAD OF TALKING ON ISSUES HE STILL GO ON WITH OUR PASTORS.

  • Lorgo Ligri 10 years ago

    If your father is a pastor, you won't like it. If you're related to one of their victims, it's kudos! Deep down in our hearts, we all know the truth. The only laughing spectator is the devil who is waitng calmly for his messe ...
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  • Akwasi ( London) 10 years ago

    Prosecuting these charlatans will give then the publicity and sympathy they dont deserve.
    The challenge to Ghanaians is to educate the followers about the lies and deception practised on them by these charlatans. They ought ...
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  • Fekpe 10 years ago

    Once an NDC man told me that fantes are concert party people. They are big foooooools. Watch the teeth of fool Kwesi Pratt jnr.

  • t don 10 years ago

    So are the NDC goons who are looting the country. Their actions and that of the false prophets are the same.
    when the the NDC cleanse itself, then they can tell others to clean themselves. Mr Pratt your reportage is biased. ...
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  • ohenenana 10 years ago

    Ghana has serious challenges, and these guys are not helping. Every body speaks bluntly, and with authority, and things the world must listen, and this is not good for a civil society.