Pastor ejects sister for sacking 'unfashionable' husband

A 35-year-old woman has dragged her brother, a pastor, to the Police Women and Juvenile Unit (WAJU) at Sunyani to explain why the brother was ejecting her from his house.

But the brother, Pastor Thomas A. Kyeremeh, founder and leader of New Life Revival Assembly, based in London told officials of the WAJU that he was taking that action because his sister had divorced her husband on the grounds of not being fashionable.

Joyce Konadu, the sister, a second-hand clothes dealer, had been given a week's ultimatum by the brother, Pastor Kyeremeh, to quit the house or be dealt with severely. She wondered why the brother who requested her to occupy the house whiles living in overseas should return only to eject her. Not even the incessant plea from family members could make the pastor change his decision.

And when her pleas with the brother to help her with some money to enable her to rent a room was turned down, Joyce had only one option- to drag the brother to the WAJU for intervention. But little did she know that the situation would turn against her. When the pastor was questioned by the WAJU head Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Alex Yartey Tawiah, he created a scene at the WAJU office.

He queried, why should a woman divorce her husband on the grounds that the husband does not know how to dress properly.

Pastor Kyeremeh then explained that the sister was married to a 38-year-old fitter, Kwame Anokye, with whom she has three children.

Somewhere in 1999 she approached the man's family members with a bottle of Schnapps to dissolve their 17-year-old marriage on the grounds that her husband did not know how to dress fashionably and that he could not follow him to any function. According to the pastor, her action came shortly after he had given her some amount of money to start some business, which had started flourishing.

He said when he planned to bring his children down to continue with their education, he asked the sister, who had then rented her own room to occupy his house so that she would take care of his children during his absence. The pastor said, on his arrival he was shocked when he realised that the sister had divorced the husband. "I realised that she was being insolent and that she could not cater well for my children when I am away and therefore decided to eject her from my house, he explained.