{"id":242380,"date":"2016-08-23T19:27:34","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T19:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=242380"},"modified":"2016-08-23T19:27:34","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T19:27:34","slug":"bishop-obinim-to-spend-the-night-in-police-cell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/08\/bishop-obinim-to-spend-the-night-in-police-cell\/","title":{"rendered":"Bishop Obinim to spend the night in police cell"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Founder of the International Godsway Church, Bishop Daniel Obinim, will spend at least one night in a police cell following his arrest on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Sources close to the situation confirmed to citifmonline.com<\/strong>, that Obinim will be kept in the cell overnight and interrogated the next day<\/p>\n [contextly_sidebar id=”9RRv2SGAhGg0IudO20jPTVD0e7dhg7tt”]A video showed the controversial preacher being led into a vehicle from the Police station in handcuffs, escorted by some police officers.<\/p>\n Obinim said repeatedly\u00a0in Twi while being led away: “Jesus Christ has won.”<\/p>\n He has since been transferred\u00a0to the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) in Accra. He is however yet to be charged with any offense.<\/p>\n One of his junior pastors was also arrested by the police.<\/p>\n Obinim, who is under investigation<\/strong><\/a><\/span> for whipping two teenagers in his church publicly, finally showed up at the police station having been invited by the Tema Regional Police for questioning last Friday.<\/p>\n Following a no-show by the preacher, the police issued a 24-hour ultimatum on Sunday for Obinim to\u00a0turn himself in.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Earlier on Tuesday, the police had stated that, they would treat the case as they would treat any other case as Obinim was ‘not above the law<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.’<\/p>\n Obinim sued<\/strong><\/p>\n The video showing Obinim whipping the two teenagers with a belt during a service for allegedly engaging in sexual relations and attempting to abort a subsequent pregnancy, went viral on social media provoking condemnation from most Ghanaians.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n The Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection, which confirmed that a complaint had been filed against Obinim at the Tema Regional Police,\u00a0filed a separate complaint<\/strong><\/a><\/span>\u00a0at the\u00a0Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU).<\/p>\n A statement from the Gender Minister, Nana Oye Lithur, said that the Ministry had \u201chas reported Pastor Obinim of the International Godsway Church to the Accra Regional DOVVSU Office for investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n A private legal practitioner, Francis-Xavier Kojo Sosu, along with two others, has also sued Obinim and his church over the incident.<\/p>\n