Mother & son frames pastor in rape case

The Kumasi Police are looking for Madam Ama Serwaah, 60, farmer and her son, Kwadwo Agyeman, 28, an assistant pastor both of Kumasi for allegedly framing up their relative, a popular Kumasi-based man of God in a rape case with the objective of getting him imprisoned.

Their goal was to get relative, Reverend Emmanuel Owusu, popularly known as “No Way for Satan”, founder and leader of the Seraphim Church of Christ at Bohyen a suburb of Kumasi, jailed to enable them to take over his church and other property.

But the plot failed last week Friday when the supposed rape victim, Ama Owusuwaa, let the cat out of the bag with the confession to the Police Women and Juvenile Unit (WAJU) that Rev. Owusu never touched her.

According to her, she was coached by Madam Serwaah and Agyeman, Assistant Pastor of Rev. Owusu’s Church, on what to tell the Police to incriminate Rev. Owusu and promised her a reward of 50,000 cedis if the deal went through. The two disappeared from home on learning that Owusuwaa had let out the secret.

Briefing the “Times” in Kumasi at the week-end, Police sources said that Rev. Owusu travelled to Germany in 1996 and returned home recently only to realise that his property including a house and four vehicles had been taken over by his two relatives. The relatives in fact, changed the ownership of the property into their names.

Shocked by their conduct, Rev. Owusu asked them to leave the house after several unsuccessful attempts by them to poison him.

Upon the intervention of Reverend J.Y. Adu of the New Jerusalem chapel at Sobobon, near Kumasi and close friend of Rev. Owusu, Madam Serwaah and her son were reconciled with Rev. Owusu.

On December 21, the two led Owusuwaa, a housemaid, to the Kumasi WAJU office with the story that the girl had been raped by Rev. Owusu.

In the course of investigations, Owusuwaa confessed that the story was false saying that it was cooked up by Madam Serwaah and Agyeman to get Rev. Owusu imprisoned to enable them to take over his assets. A medical report also confirmed that the allegation was false.