Human rights Lawyer and advocate, Lawyer Mary Ohenewaa Afful has revealed that it is criminal for anybody to predict the death of another person.
According to the Lawyer, Ghana’s constitution states clearly that threats of death amounts to "psychological violence". She has therefore urged people to legal actions against so-called men of God who prophesy other people’s death.
Read her full statement below:
“For those of you who do not know the application of the law in every given situation & thinks that it is funny to play with people's lives & their minds should be very careful and ignorant of the law too is no excuse.
Why would it be someone's business to determine the death of another person. Of what purpose will that agenda serve. The law is explicit on threats of death. Telling someone that he or she will die amounts to psychological violence punishable under the laws of Ghana contrary to section 75 of the Criminal Offences Act, 1960 (ACT 29)
Threat of death is to threaten any person with the intention of putting that person into fear of death. This is a second degree felony and jail term is 10years maximum and 5 years minimum.
That means anyone affected by a threat of death or so called prophecy can report the matter to the nearest police station as provided for by the laws of Ghana and ensure that the criminal prosecution or processes begins.
The affected person or the victim can as well institute a civil action to claim huge sums of damages by way of Special and General Damages as compensation for the pain caused and the embarrassments suffered as a result of the threat of death on the person. Know also that in law, compensation must always be commensurate with the injuries/ harm/ pain sustained.
If a pastor asks you to sow a seed or takes money from and promises you that you shall get pregnant, or get a job or get married or even gives you a lotto number etc. That is a binding contract and if you don't get the results, the pastor must refund your money to you to avoid the pastor being sued or arrested for fraudulent misrepresentation or whatever. So Pastors of today must be very very careful of cheap pastoral works”.
Source: Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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well said....it is also needful to educative the ***barred word*** ones in the system to reason.this shitsystem happends always in shithole of our socalled graduate african bullshit pastors.papa national imam long live.we are all sons and daughters of abraham
My dear Lawyer, Please check the Criminal code again. You may realize that the section you quoted does not support the act referred to. For purpose of education, and for the benefit of the public, I reproduce hereunder what the section reffered to says: "Section 75—Threat of Death. Whoever threatens any other person with death, with intent to put that person in fear of death, is guilty of a second degree felony." In the case of BEHOME v. THE REPUBLIC [1979] GLR 112-128, the court in explaining threat of death stated , inter alia, as follows: (2) Where an accused was charged with threat of death under section 75 of Act 29 the particulars must disclose that he threatened to kill with an intent to put the complainant in fear of death and not that he threatened the complainant with unlawful harm. question then is, has Owusu Bempah threatened any one of those he mentioned that he will kill them? An action may be founded under a different area of law against him or some of the statements in the "prophesies", but certainly not under the section quoted by the lawyer. Respectfully submitted.
IN GHANA, THE LAWS ARE ONLY APPLIED ON THE FEW DECENT MINORITY. OWUSU BEMPAH HAS BEEN GIVEN THESE DOOM PREDICTIONS EVERY YEAR IF NOT QUARTERLY. WHO BORN DOG TO TOUCH HIM?? BECAUSE HE'S WELL CONNECTED TO ONE OF THE MAJOR POLITICAL PARTIES IN THE COUNTRY. IF IT WERE TO BE ONE OF THE FEW DECENT CITIZENS BY HE WOULD HAVE BEEN LANGUISHING IN PRISON BY NOW! WHEN THE PRESENT GOVERNING PARTY CAME TO POWER MR. BEMPAH WAS WARMLY WELCOMED TO THE SEAT OF GOVERNMENT ( THE PRESIDENCY) TO FORMALISED HIS " OCCULT ACTIVITIES IN THE NAME OF CHRISTIANITY ON NATIONAL TELEVISION. WE ALL WITNESSED IT WHEN HE PRESENTED A HORN-LIKE OBJECT THE THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC IN THE NAME OF PROTECTING THE PRESIDENT. HOW SHOULD WE STOOP LOW AS A COUNTRY BY PRACTICING OUR DEMOCRACY TO THIS LEVEL?? GOVERNANCE IS A SERIOUS BUSINESS AND THEREFORE, WE SHOULD STOP TRADING OUR DEMOCRACY AND COUNTRY THE TO THE DEVIL HIMSELF. THANK YOU FOR READING,FELLOW GHANAIANS.
Owusu Bempah MUST BE ARRESTED IMMEDIATELY bcos he can predict someone's death and passby to kill him or her so his fake prophecy will come true this is sttuuppitidity!
Even if there is no law, we will take the law into our own hands. This stup1d1ty must stop. The Owusu Bempah's, Badu Kobi's, Eagle Prophets etc should stop this nons3ns3 otherwise the Concerned Ghanaians will kill them first. What a nons3ns3. ***barred word*** uneducated !***barred word*** just talk anyhow because they are prophets. 2019 will not be good for these 1d10ts. We will pepper them to stop. They ain't see anything yet. When they stop we will also stop. ***barred word*** ***barred word*** they call themselves prophets.
honestly, this pastors and prophets should stop that n0ns3ns3. why do they have to go into the spiritual realm only to come back with news of death? who ask them to go and find out for them when they will die? why dont they tell us when they will die? seriously, this is not fun and they shd stop it. we will all die one and we dnt need anyone to tell us when we will die. we are just leaving by His grace. if anyone is interested is willing to know when he/she will die, he/she shd go and consult them. they shd stop that 31st December night n0ns3ns3. I am still not sure why God is taking so long to come.
This woman is just wasting her time as a Human Right lawyer. Is there any test case or Case Laws anywhere under Common Law whereby prophecies are deemed to be an offence violation of onces human right. Her suit wouldn't survive a half time. Let's respect Religious Liberty under our democratic dispensation and the attributes of it which gift of prophecy is part of it. As we're not under regulated religion as that of Socialist/Communist such prophecies are going to happen and it is up to us as citizenry that have to be wise enough and our pastors and ministers of religion with gifts to act responsibly.
Well said Madam. I am grateful to you for the explanation. I always asked myself why people are not taking these false pastors on at the courts and claim huge damages. Why are we so ***barred word*** and allow these cheats to ***barred word*** our blood all in the name of God. Blasphemous to prophesy somebody's death. Arrest and prosecute them to save our poor ***barred word*** people.