Bishop Daniel Obinim has been charged with assault and taken to the police headquarters in Accra after honouring an invitation by the law enforcement agency.
The controversial founder of the International God’s Way Church was reported to the Domestic Violence and Victims’ Support Unit of the Ghana Police Service after a video went viral on social media showing him flogging two teen lovers in church with a belt for fornicating.
ClassFMonline.com has learnt that Bishop Obinim has been charged with causing physical assault on the teen lovers. Some of the people he works with have also been arrested and charged with abetment of crime.
In the said video, Bishop Obinim was captured whipping the two lovers – his adopted children – for having sex with each other and attempting to abort a pregnancy. Not even the intervention of his wife could stop him from meting out the corporal punishment to the teenagers.
He was widely condemned on social media as well as by human rights activists. The Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection reported him to DOVVSU over the matter. A human rights lawyers, Mr Francis Xavier-Sosu, also sued Bishop Obinim over the issue.
Source: Ghana/AccraFM.com
