About a week ago, patrons of gospel songstress Piesie Esther\u2019s album launch at Alisa Hotel were surprised to have seen traditional priest Nana Agradaa in attendance.<\/p>\n
Nana Agradaa\u2019s presence at the launch, stoked controversy as regards the propriety or otherwise of a traditional priest gracing a programme of a gospel artiste.<\/p>\n
Pieise Esther had explained that she invited Nana Agradaa not because of her priesthood or money but because she had known her personally for a long time.<\/p>\n
\u201cI called her because she is a person I\u2019ve known for a very long time but not as a fetish priestess. She has been buying from my boutique at Darkuman so she has been my costumer. Even before she became fetish priestess, she was also my church member at Pastor Apae Life\u2019s Great Light Worship Centre.<\/p>\n
Even aside knowing her for years, people like her who were Christians but left the Kingdom are the ones God says He wants so I don\u2019t see anything wrong with her coming to the album launch.\u201d Piesie Esther had told KMJ on Hitz FM.<\/p>\n
However, in an another interview with award winning gospel minister OJ on Accra FM on whether he would ever invite a fetish priest to his show, the \u2018Onipa Hia Mmoa\u2019 singer answered in the negative.<\/p>\n
\u201cI will never invite a fetish priest to my programme. I won\u2019t condemn it but I won\u2019t do it. Certain draw your followers from the word and they stop following you. I can dye my hair, put on an earring and fix gold on my teeth but there are some people when they see that on you they can even decide not to patronise your music so I have to come clean and look simple so that people can identify with what I am doing,\u201d he told Nana Romeo in the interview.<\/p>\n
In a separate interview with citifmonline.com<\/strong>, the celebrated song writer noted that his statement was not a response to Piesie\u2019s story because he was asked a general question by the host and he responded accordingly.<\/p>\n \u201cI did not even know of the story in question until after the interview. But he asked a general question and I gave him a general answer. If he had asked the question with specific reference to Piesie Esther, I would have approached it accordingly,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Born Michael Oware Sakyi, Minister OJ has produced songs like \u2018Etisen,\u2019 \u2018Adom ne Odo,\u2019 \u2018Obi Nya Wo Aye,\u2019 \u2018Ma Ye Se Wo Pen,\u2019 \u2018Onipa Hia Mmoa,\u2019 among others.<\/p>\n \u2013<\/p>\n By: Kwame Dadzie\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" About a week ago, patrons of gospel songstress Piesie Esther\u2019s album launch at Alisa Hotel were surprised to have seen traditional priest Nana Agradaa in attendance. Nana Agradaa\u2019s presence at the launch, stoked controversy as regards the propriety or otherwise of a traditional priest gracing a programme of a gospel artiste. Pieise Esther had explained […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":308809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[137],"tags":[3,3683,5965],"yoast_head":"\n