GOD INSTRUCTED ME TO STEAL - WINNERS CHAPEL PASTOR

"'God' Instructed Me To Steal" - Winners Chapel Pastor
25-year-old Prince Dzah, an Associate Pastor of the Winners Chapel
International, Aflao branch, was arrested by the Police for allegedly
stealing about Gh¢18,000 belonging to the church.
Also arrested were Theophilus Zealous, 24, a ...
member of the Church and
23 years old barber, George Atsu Ahiagba.
The amount was offering entrusted into the care of Pastor Dzah as the
Church's accountant.
Mr. Daniel Dzamtse, Aflao Police Crime Officer, told the GNAthat on
August 13, the suspect failed to render account of monies he was to
have lodged into the bank after a queried by Head Pastor, Samuel
Turkson.
The Police Crime Officer said Pastor Dzah admitted giving part of the
amount to Zealous to transfer through the MTN mobile money to one
Paul, formerly of the Aflao Church who had contacted him [Dzah] for
financial assistance.
Mr. Dzamtse said Pastor Dzah failed to assist the Police to get into
contact with the said Paul.
He said Pastor Dzah told the Police, upon his arrest together with
Zealous, that he sent Gh¢ 17,000 to the said Paul after "God
instructed me to assist Paul with the church's money".
Mr. Dzamtse said investigations at the MTN Beat Nine Junction and GT
Bank branches at Aflao revealed that the amount was cashed by one
George Atsu Ahiagba with his voter ID card number 1678009737.
He said Ahiagba was arrested at the MTN office on August 16 when he
called there to cash an extra Gh¢ 500.
Mr. Dzamtse said Ahiagba told the Police he cashed the moniesfor a
young man who came for a hair cut in his barbering shop at Aflao and
introduced himself as Pastor Joseph of the Lord's Church in Accra.
He said the suspect stated that Pastor Joseph, who claimed he was on
his way to a crusade in Lome, gave him a secret code with which he
cashed Gh¢ 2,000 at the MTN office for him. Ahiagba said Pastor Joseph
paid him Gh¢ 20 for cashing the money.
Ahiagba explained he had on several other occasions withdrawn a total
of Gh¢ 7,000 from a GT Bank branch for the said Pastor Joseph who
visited his shop a number of timesbetween July and August.
The three have been remanded in Police custody by an Aflao Circuit to
reappear in court on August 26.