The Founder and General Overseer of the International God’s Way Church, Bishop Daniel Obinim, has said any lawyer who threatens to sue him for publicly flogging his amorous adopted son and daughter is brainless.
His comment follows 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.
For this condemnable action, Lawyer Sosu wants the eccentric pastors to answer questions in court for infringing on the human rights of the ‘couple’.
But Bishop Obinim in an exclusive interview with Kasapa News stated that he remains unfazed by the threats of a law suit, and asked lawyer Sosu to get off his back.
“Tell that lawyer that he lacks sense, does he not punish his children when they go wrong? It is because I am a star and public figure that is why when I flog my children it is news, but I’m not the first and will not be the last. Because of the pubic uproar over what I’ve done, I will even beat them more and film it again. I’m responsible for their upkeep and no one can raise them better in life than myself. Tell that lawyer that he should leave me alone otherwise I will deal with him.”
Meanwhile, the The Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection has filed a police report against the founder and General Overseer of the International God’s Way Church, Bishop Daniel Obinim, over the church flogging incident.
The sector minister announced on her Facebook wall that her ministry has filed the report at the Accra Regional Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU) Office for investigations to be conducted into the incident.
“We have been informed; that the Police have commenced investigations into the matter and a complaint has also been filed against him at the Tema Regional Police. We will keep you posted on further developments,” Nana Oye-Lithur wrote Thursday.
Also, Amnesty International Ghana has called for an immediate arrest of the Founder and General Overseer of the International God’s Way Church, Bishop Daniel Obinim.
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