The controversial pastor who flogged his church members for engaging in fornication in a video has reacted to the public outcry and given his reasons for why he did it.
He said in his defense he said that he was forced to discipline the two after God revealed to him in a vision during prophecy time in his church that the two had not only been engaging in amorous acts but also tried without success to abort a pregnancy which resulted from that.
According to the Pastor, the two teenagers are his adopted children and have been staying with him for up to eight years.
In an interview, he said that the male, Illiasu has been staying with him since he was eight after his father died while Gyasiwaa, the girl, has also been staying with him for the past four years.
He disclosed that the boy, Illiasu is still in school saying “last week, I even paid his fees of up to GHC76million so he could still be in school.”
He claimed to have only found out about their sexual encounters for the first time during church service last Wednesday.
“Due to the nature of my work and that of my wife who has also been producing a TV show, we have not been staying at home and hence are unaware of the relationship between them, all I do as a man is to just provide the necessary money for their upkeep,” he said.
“It was during church service that God opened my eyes and I saw that something like that had occurred, so I asked the lady and she said it was true. I was perplexed and queried further to know that if it is true that she is pregnant, and she said that it was true. So I called the boy and asked him, he also confirmed…if God had not revealed this to me I wouldn’t have known that something of that sort was happening,” he added.
He stated that he whipped the girl because he learned she’d tried to abort the pregnancy.
“The fact that the lady had attempted to abort the pregnancy caused me to discipline them…that is what caused me to quote Proverbs 3:24 which states that: ‘Whoever spares the rod hates their children, but the one who loves their children is careful to discipline them,’ before whipping them.”
He also expressed shock at the reception his actions have received saying that if the girl had died while aborting the pregnancy he’d be accused of using her for ritual purposes.
“I disciplined them as I would do to my own child…,” he said, adding that he would not allow the pregnant lady to commit abortion.
“As I speak the two children are still staying with me but I don’t know what to do, I don’t know whether I should sack them or not, their parents are here begging me but I still don’t know what to do because as a Pastor I won’t permit the lady to abort the pregnancy” he said.
And as a parting shot to his accusers, he said that they aren’t smarter than God and that God would not have shown him the vision publicly if he didn’t want them to be punished publicly.
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