[ 2011-11-19 ]

Gadiel Nana Nketsia Ankamah

Man defrauds Church members
GADIEL NANA Nketsia Ankamah, a self-styled
businessman has defrauded unsuspecting church
members at Ghana Nungua in the Western region of
GH¢14,200.00.

This was after the 21-year-old promised to secure
them passports and visas to Finland to work on a
fishing vessel.

The suspect whose plea was not taken is currently
in police custody after appearing before a
Takoradi Circuit Court “B” on November 8,
2011.

Early in September this year, the suspect
reportedly went to Ghana Nungua, a village near
Elubo and told Pastor James Salifu, founder of
King of Kings Church that he had just come from
abroad and that he wanted to recruit energetic
young men to Finland to work with a fishing
company.

Earlier Nana Nketsia was said to have received
some powerful prayers from Pastor Salifu in Half
Assini where they struck an acquaintance.

Subsequently, when the suspect came out of some
undisclosed trouble he visited the man of God at
his base to express his appreciation and to become
part of the congregation.

For about a month, the suspect worshipped with the
King of Kings Church and gave testimonies about
Pastor Salifu’s intercessory prayers which
delivered him being thrown into prison by his
enemies.

He told them that he had just returned from Italy.
He also claimed he would buy the church a new set
of instruments and send 35 young men from the
congregation to Finland to work so that they could
earn some foreign exchange and assist the new
church to progress.

Nana Nketsia allegedly even told Pastor Salifu
that because he prayed fervently for him while he
was in trouble some months ago at Half Assini; he
had ordered the shipment of a brand new salon car
from Korea for the pastor’s personal use.

The congregation was said to have become “highly
excited and appreciative of Nana Nketsia’s
seeming gratefulness and the entire hall was
filled with loud applause for the Italian burger
punctuated with shouts of amen and hallelujah,”
seven of the victims told DAILY GUIDE.

In no time, Nana Nketsia promised to secure
passports and visas for the 35 young men and
succeeded in collecting various sums of money
ranging from GH¢450 to GH¢950, all amounting to
GH¢14,200.00 to have the documents prepared in
Accra.

The suspect allegedly secured biometric Ghanaian
passports and showed them to the young men, but
forged some Finish visas using computer technology
to emboss them in the passports.

Before embossing the fake visas, the suspect asked
the young men to go to Accra to collect their
passports after which they would pay not less than
GH¢2,000 each for a visa.

It was at the Accra Passport Office that officials
detected that one Stephen Twen was trying to
collect a passport belonging to one Bernard
Sukah.

Stephen Twen then told the officials it was Nana
Nketsia who did everything for them and that they
were only there to collect their passports.

The police were therefore alerted and they
arrested Nana Nketsia at a store in Inchaban near
Sekondi where they retrieved a computer, printer
and accessories as well as several passport
pictures.

The suspect told police he was an expert in using
the computer to do a lot of things including
designing the visas of various countries.

He will reappear in court on November 25, 2011.

Source - Daily Guide

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