Agradaa’s saga is an indictment on National Security – Bureau of Public Safety boss
The Executive Director of the Bureau of Public Safety, Nana Yaw Akwada has opined that the saga of the alleged continuous scam by the self-styled Evangelist Patricia Oduro, popularly known as Nana Agradaa is an indictment on the institution of National Security.
The former fetish priest turned evangelist was arrested by the Ghana Police Service on Sunday, October 09, 2022 after the news became rife in the media that she has allegedly scammed her church members through her usual money doubling scheme.
Some victims in a viral video took to social media to vent their frustrations and therefore called on the security forces to intervene hence her arrest.
But Nana Yaw Akwada believes this practice of scams and trickery on unsuspecting victims by fetish priests and self-acclaimed men and women of God are flourishing due to the incurious posture of the National Security.
The Executive Director of the Bureau of Public Safety who was speaking on Spotlight on MX 24 TV with Nuong Faalong noted that over time the National Security has become concerned with issues of politics only, neglecting the happenings in the socio-economic and religious spaces of the country.
He therefore indicated that the earlier the National Security becomes interested in these matters the better since they have the potential of resulting in the incidents similar to the Jonestown Massacre in 1978.
“The Agradaa issue goes beyond a matter of discussing church leadership or church regulation. It is actually an indictment on the institution of National Security. I can tell you we have seen Agradaa and her ills- many, many of her kind – in the past decade or so on TV proposing or preaching themselves as people who double money, who can raise the dead and do so many things and the National Security has sat aloof until now,” Nana Yaw Akwada observed.
He continued that, “if ever you have heard of the Jonestown Massacre in 1978, and I will urge your viewers to google it, they will see that what we are witnessing today is just a like-version of that. The earlier the National Security begins to take interest in the social and economic spaces of our country the better because as it stands now, every time we hear about National Security, then we are looking at political opponents or politics and all. They have left the social and economic realm for rogues and criminal elements to dominate and that is what we are seeing playing out today.”
Nana Yaw Akwada is of the firm conviction that just as the country has the institution of Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) to regulate consumables and drugs on the market, it is high time the authorities considered establishing a body to regulate the activities of churches and other religious bodies in order to curb the excesses.
