EC Ready To Announce Qualified Parliamentary Aspirants

The Electoral Commission says it is expecting its District Electoral officers to vet and release the list of aspirants who have qualified to contest in the 2016 parliamentary elections.

This follows the Commission’s announcement of the list of aspirants qualified to contest in the upcoming presidential elections at its Head Office in Accra on Monday.
The Commission revealed that, only four (4) out of the seventeen (17) aspirants qualified to contest in the December presidential polls.

According to the Director of Communications at the Electoral Commission, Eric Dzakpasu, all District Officers must publish the list of qualified parliamentary aspirants as part of their legal mandate.

He told Citi News, “When we go to the parliamentary, every returning officer receives the nomination, vets it and makes a determination to the Commission for approval, so in due course, a comprehensive list of all persons who are standing for the parliamentary will be published.”

Mr Dzakpasu expressed the hope that the announcement will be made “in due course”.
“It is a process and it wouldn’t take too long because we want to believe as at yesterday [Monday], all the constituencies were getting ready and so we expect that in due course within this period, the regions will be submitting the names of those whose forms have been accepted to the Head Office.”

source: OpenGhana

Bishop Obinim Sued For Flogging Children, See Photo Of Writ

Bishop Daniel Obinim, Founder and General Overseer of the International God’s Way Church has been in the news in the past days for publicly flogging his amorous children.
Obinim’s act has received different reaction from the public with many talking against it.

Several people threatened to sue the man of God and true to the words three of such individuals, they have dragged him to face the law. The three have sued International God’s Way Church and Bishop Daniel Obinim.

Obinim was reported to have said that any lawyer who sues him for flogging his children has no brains.

Obinim’s comment was after the decision by renowned human rights lawyer, Francis Xavier Sosu to haul him before an Accra Human Rights Court Friday for violating the dignity of his (Obinim’s) adopted children and also dehumanizing and degrading them, an act which is in contravention of Article 15 (1) and 15 (2) respectively of the 1992 constitution.

The controversial pastor ignited public outrage after he was seen in a video flogging the pregnant girl and her boyfriend. Infuriated by the couple’s lustful actions which resulted in a pregnancy, Bishop Obinim beat the youngman on his bare back with his belt before turning to the girl flogging her mercilessly in the full glare of his congregation.

During the beating session, Obinim is heard questioning the jobless youngman why he got the girl pregnant when he has no finances for her upkeep and the upbringing of the unborn child. The girl who was unable to stand the flogging attempts to escape, but she was held by a right-hand man of the Bishop to enable the bishop to subject her to more beatings.

After that, Obinim instructed his junior pastors to remove their belts and subject the couple to more flogging.

Below is the court document\

I Back Obinim For Beating The Children – Counselor Lutterodt

Bishop Daniel Obinim, Founder and General Overseer of the International God’s Way Church has been in the news in the past days for publicly flogging his amorous children.
Obinim’s act has received different reaction from the public with many talking against it.

Several people threatened to sue the man of God and true to the words three of such individuals, they have dragged him to face the law. The three have sued International God’s Way Church and Bishop Daniel Obinim.

Obinim was reported to have said that any lawyer who sues him for flogging his children has no brains.

Obinim’s comment was after the decision by renowned human rights lawyer, Francis Xavier Sosu to haul him before an Accra Human Rights Court Friday for violating the dignity of his (Obinim’s) adopted children and also dehumanizing and degrading them, an act which is in contravention of Article 15 (1) and 15 (2) respectively of the 1992 constitution.

The controversial pastor ignited public outrage after he was seen in a video flogging the pregnant girl and her boyfriend. Infuriated by the couple’s lustful actions which resulted in a pregnancy, Bishop Obinim beat the youngman on his bare back with his belt before turning to the girl flogging her mercilessly in the full glare of his congregation.

During the beating session, Obinim is heard questioning the jobless youngman why he got the girl pregnant when he has no finances for her upkeep and the upbringing of the unborn child. The girl who was unable to stand the flogging attempts to escape, but she was held by a right-hand man of the Bishop to enable the bishop to subject her to more beatings.

After that, Obinim instructed his junior pastors to remove their belts and subject the couple to more flogging.

Below is the court document

Obinim Explains Why He Whipped Children For Having S3x

The founder and leader of the International Godsway Church (IGWC), Bishop Daniel Obinim is in the news again for abusing two youngsters of his church who were said to have engaged in fornication that resulted in a pregnancy.

A new video which is circulating online shows the “Angel of God” whipping the two youngsters with a leather belt during a church service which was televised live on his OBTV. The incident was said to have happened on Wednesday August 17, 2016.

The crime of the two said to be around 20 years and 18 were that, they engaged in sexual relations which resulted in a pregnancy and secretly terminated it using a ‘crude’ method. In the video, many of his followers in the church, including his musician wife, Florence Obinim were seen laughing as Obinim whipped the duo for their “sins”.

He claimed his “angels” exposed the amorous relationship between the two to him and that instead of concentrating on learning a trade, they were rather having sex.

Whilst whipping and abusing them verbally, he said the young man was a student and the girl in question was learning a trade and therefore would not be able to cater a child and wondered why they should be having sex.

The girl in an attempt to escape the beatings sought refuge from Florence Obinim who was sitting on the dais but Obinim’s ‘apostles’ pulled her off and whipped her the more. Obinim who at a point looked tired asked his apostles to continue with the beatings.  Explaining, a spokesperson of the church, Mr Osei Oppong Brenya said the two were adopted children of Bishop Obinim and confirmed the incident indeed did happen in church on Wednesday.

He said the youngman was known as Illiasu, a student whilst the young lady was Gyasiwaa, who was learning to become a beautician. He said during ‘prophesy time’ in church on Wednesday, Bishop Obinim called the two and said God had revealed to him that Illiasu had impregnated Gyasiwaa and they have terminated the pregnancy, an act he sees as wrong and should not be entertained.

“As a father, when your child do something wrong, what you have to do is to discipline the child, so he went ahead to discipline them to serve as a deterrent to others who want to engage in such acts,” Mr Brenya said. He said the video which was circulating online was rather being used to malign Bishop Obinim.

According to him, Bishop Obinim was the one who was catering for the upkeep of the two, including their schools fees and that even some of their external family members were also being housed and catered for by the Bishop.

He said as a man of God, he would therefore not tolerate acts such as terminating a pregnancy and therefore disagreed with assertions that what he did was unlawful. He said as a father, punishing your children could be in different forms and that Bishop Obinim chose what he deemed appropriate for him.

Source: Daily Graphic

Spain intercepts Ghana-bound assault rifles, grenade launchers

Spanish security authorities have found a store of arms bound to Ghana from the US, as per Swiss news source swissinfo.ch.

The report said the Spanish Common Watchman revealed the stash of 737 strike rifles and 72 projectile launchers, all made in Switzerland being sent to Ghana from the US.

The aggregate estimation of the reserve of arms has been put around $1.64 million.

The report demonstrates that the wellspring of the arms can be followed to Hungary, showing up in Spain a puzzle.

The revelation, the report says, was made on August 4, 2016.

Refering to Spanish powers, the report said the arms were announced "dismantled", however they were "new rifles in their unique bundling. As indicated by the going with records – which had some data missing – the weapons were to be transported to Ghana from business firearm merchants in the Unified States."

The Spanish are presently exploring the matter, the report said.

A Swiss production, Tages-Anzeiger which took a gander at the conveyance's fare record, affirmed that the weapons were for sure made in Switzerland and the exporters anticipated that the conveyance would go to Ghana, by means of a merchant in Hungary, in 2010.

It likewise put the aggregate estimation of the arms around $1.64 million, including that the purchaser, was given as the National Security Gathering of Ghana, noticing that certifications were made that the weapons would not be sold on, and would be for military use.

Spiritualist threatened to expose juju Pastors in Ghana.

To the congregants of most religious organizations in the country, their pastors or leaders are shepherding them well and providing them with the needed spiritual guidance but a Suhum-based spiritualist has a contrary view.

Torgbe Huntehunu Vigbedor alleges that most miracles performed by most Ghanaian pastors these days are not a manifestation of God’s handy work but voodoo powers from the underworld and has vowed to expose them.

The two decades practicing spiritualist who boasted of being a godfather for many notable pastors perceived as the most powerful men of God in the country, indicates that it is time to blow their cover for the country to know their true identity.

He is cautioning congregants of Churches to be wary of pastors who use items such as anointing water and oil, handkerchiefs among others; indicating that these persons are instructed to always chant certain incantations in the form of speaking tongues on the stated items which aids them in performing certain miracles.

Speaking on Koforidua-based Bryte FM, he expressed worry that, many of these pastors who seek spiritual direction from him to increase their ‘flock’ turn to pretend they are waging spiritual wars against spiritualists in the country just to cover up for their fake powers.

He threatened to blow the cover of such pastors especially those who visit him for supernatural powers.