Man of God to shoot radio presenter!

A self-proclaimed man of God, Rev Tony Asamoah Boateng, aka Apae Live, founder and leader of Great Light Worship Centre of Amakom, a Kumasi suburb, in the early hours of Friday, last week stormed the studios of OTEC FM, one of the city’s radio stations allegedly with a pistol, trying to kill the presenter, one Blessed Godbrain Smart, aka Captain Smart.

But for the timely intervention of some “macho-like” staff of the station, who struggled with Apae Live for some 10 minutes and finally succeeded in heckling him out, he would have shot at Captain Smart. His presence at the station, however, created pandemonium as others ran helter-skelter to save their lives from the so-called man of God, who proudly displayed his deadly weapon (pistol) to by-standers.

Narrating this unfortunate incident to Chronicle, the victim, Smart, stated that there was a report on Apae Live in one of the weekly newspapers, saying he, Apae Live, had allegedly defrauded his church members by selling to them a so-called “holy water” he brought from River Jordan at amounts ranging from ?50,000 to ?250,000. This water was later discovered to be the local pipe-borne water. “I called him on his mobile phone on Friday, live on our morning show programme to either deny or confirm the story.”

According to Smart, immediately he had him on and questioned him, without any provocation, he started raining insults on him, saying that Ghanaians are mad people and he was coming to the station to show him where power lay. True to his words, Apae Live stormed the station with a pistol, outwitted the security post at the main entrance and then strode straight into the studios of OTEC to attack Smart.

Later in an interview with the programmes manager of the station, Mr Isaac Frimpong, he told the Chronicle that they had reported Apae Live’s barbaric attack on the presenter to the Manhyia police and they would definitely put him before court for prosecution. All attempts made by the Chronicle to contact Apae Live on his mobile phone were to no avail as the phone had been switched off.