Shocking revelations trickling this newspaper from the backyard of the Acting president of the Association of the 7th Day Pentecostal Assemblies at the Kumasi Adeabeba, Akwasi Addai Macaiah indicates that number of church members have resigned from the Ministry.
This follows the allegations of wives snatching, consultations of shrines to seek fortune, polygamous practice, attempts to infiltrate strange doctrines into the church and among others, outright violations of the church’s constitution that was levelled against the man of God.
Hard-hitting investigations carried out by our crack investigative journalists confirmed that some of the aggrieved church members who think that they can no longer worship with the church because of the alleged suspicious conduct of their leader, Macaiah Addai have currently formed a religious movement to enable them meet and worship on every Saturdays at Kumasi Asem.
Readers can recalled that pastor Macaiah Addai was recently sued at Manhyia Palace for allegedly snatching a wife of a church member, one Kofi Adjei.
At the Asantehemaa’s Palace at Manhyia, a five panel member who sat on the case found pastor Macaiah Addai guilty and ordered to slaughter 4 sheep to pacify the gods of the land.
However through a pleading from a Kumasi chief the four sheep was reduced to two and the cost converted into local currency of Ghc 6000 which the man of God quickly made payment.
As if that was not enough, another unfolding drama as narrated by an ex member of the church, Mr Kwaku Eshung allegedly revealed how he (Eshung) and pastor Macaiah Addai were swindled of their GHC 25,000 by a jujuman in Kumasi in 2019 in a gold deal. Narrating how they came into contact with the jujuman one
Martin Nyamekye of Kumasi Dunkirk in 2019, Mr Kwaku Eshung underscored that in that year, some friends he knew at Mampong Aboantem got him informed that they have a family gold that was hidden somewhere in their residence at Aboantem which they wanted to seek for the assistance of a powerful spiritualist to help dig out for them.
Mr Kwaku Eshung said upon hearing the news he assured the friends (names withheld for security reasons) of his assistance.
I then consulted the fetish priest Martin Nyamekye with the news and he also assured me of his assistance after which the fetish priest Martin Nyamekye charged me GHC 25,000 to be used to buy spiritual items for the gold operation.
According Eshung, because he was not in the position to raise the money for the exercise, he got in touch with his pastor, Macaiah Addai for the news where he (pastor Macaiah Addai readily expressed his interest to sponsor the gold rituals.
But with the condition that after the gold operations had succeeded the parties involved would share the proceeds uequally.
Eshung indicated that the man of God allegedly sought loan for the exercise.
It was gathered that after the jujuman Martin Nyamekye had succeeded to bring out the gold, he gave warning that based on the conditions from the gods, nobody should touch the precious mineral until one month period, else any attempts by anyone to touch it before the stipulated period would compel the gods to turn the gold into stones.
The jujuman it was gathered, hid the gold in a pot in the presence of Mr Kwaku Eshung and his friends and kept it in a room at Mampong Aboantem.
Information had it that after the gold operations, Mr Kwaku Eshung relayed the message to the man of God who congratulated him (Eshung) for the fruitful exercise.
Mr Kwaku Eshung said instead of waiting for the said one month before touching the gold as instructed by the fetish priest, pastor Macaiah Addai forced him (Eshung ) to the scene and to away the gold.
Macaiah Addai’s alleged point was that since the jujuman had successfully overpowered the spirits surrounding the gold, anyone can touch it, and moreover if care is not taken the jujuman would secretly run away with the gold.
He also allegedly insisted that if the loans were not paid in time it would attract heavy interest.
Eshung alleged that without the knowledge of the jujuman he and pastor Macaiah Addai drove to where the gold was hidden at Mampong Aboantem, broken into the room and amidst fire brand prayers from the clergy, the clergy himself took over the pot of gold to Kumasi.
But luck however eluded pastor Macaiah Addai, when after opening the pot saw to his amazement that the supposed gold had turned into stones, Eshung pointed out.
In an answer to a question, Kwaku Eshung said after seeing the stones Macaiah Addai blamed him (Eshung) for misleading him (Macaiah Addai) to involve himself in rituals for money, and accordingly asked him to pay part of the loans they took for the operations.
I refused to do so because he (Macaiah Addai) refused to comply with the jujuman’s directives, Eshung told the Correspondent.
Kwaku Eshung ralated that since he could not withstand the intensive pressures from Macaiah Addai over the demand of the loan repayment, he also in turn arrested the jujuman for a refund of the money, but at the police station the fetish priest who has since taken to his heels pleaded for amicable settlement, making him to withdraw the case.
Several attempts to reach Macaiah Addai for his side version failed as his phone was out of coverage area.
But confirming the story at a Kumasi based radio station Agyenkwa Fm recently in reaction to the allegations leveled against one Kofi Adjei former church member by pastor Macaiah Addai that he Adjei once sent her wife to a shrine on a wicked agenda motive, Kofi Adjei confirmed that it was rather Macaiah Addai who involve himself with a jujuman in a gold rituals deal.
Adjei said he was at church when the man of God solicited for loan to enable him consult a jujuman for a gold deal.
Stressing that he (Adjei) partly gave GHC 15,000 to one Eshung also a church member who collaborated with pastor Macaiah Addai in gold deal to be given to Macaiah Addai, an allegation the pastor has since not reacted to.
” I wonder how people follow such a man whose activities are full of question marks Kofi Adjei of whose wife Macaiah Addai snatched told his listerners.
