The founder and leader of the Heaven Way Champion International Ministries, Patricia Asiedu, popularly known as Nana Agradaa, has pleaded guilty to six new charges levied against her by the state and has been remanded into custody for two weeks.
Agradaa was rushed back to court today, Friday, October 13th 2022 and hit with six new fraud charges before an Accra Circuit Court.
According to reports, she initially declined to give her plea due to the absence of her lawyers in court then later pleaded not guilty to all six charges.
Trial judge Evelyn Asamoah adjourned the case till October 24th and remanded the suspect into custody.
The fetish priestess turned evangelist was arrested on Sunday, October 9, following allegations of scam, among others, levelled against her by some members of her church and the public.
The evangelists reportedly advertised on television that she was holding an all-night service during which she would be sharing monies to attendees to the tune of 3billion cedis.
She encouraged her church members and Ghanaians at large to make time to attend the event and bring their own monies to the church which she would double tenfold.
Based on this assurance, the affected worshippers said they were convinced to give her various sums, in expectation of multiplied outcomes.
But in a series of viral videos on social media on Saturday, the church members who reposed confidence in the recently converted fetish priestess said their monies have not been doubled, but ‘Nana Agradaa’ was nowhere to be found.
Police picked her up Sunday and added in a statement that, “Anyone who is a victim of the alleged money doubling scam should report to the Accra Regional Police Command for further action and to assist in the investigation.”
Agradaa was arraigned before court for the first time on Monday, October 10th but the case was quickly adjourned to Thursday, October 13th, 2022 after she was denied bail.
On Thursday, the case was again adjourned to Monday, October 17th.
However, police rushed the suspect back to court in the early hours of Friday, October 14th, and levied fresh charges against her including five counts of defrauding by new pretences and one count of charlatanic advertisement based on new witness statements.
Source: theGhanaianVoice.Com