A Circuit Court in Accra on Tuesday warned the wife of Nana Kofi Yirenkyi also known as "Jesus One Touch," that she would be disqualified as a witness in the case if she was seen in and around the court.
"If I find you here you would be disqualified as witness," the court said and asked one of its clerks to escort the defence witness out of sight and hearing of the matter pending before it.
The warning stemmed from a protest launched by Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Sarah Kwafo who contended that the accused person's wife was standing behind the window close to where the accused was seated.
According to ASP Kwafo if indeed she was to testify, then she should not be seen in and around the court hearing the case.
The wife of the accused was invited into the court room and when she was asked if she was going to testify, she replied in the positive.
She was therefore escorted out of the court.
Led in evidence by ASP Kwafo, Mr Andrews Wiredu Kwanor, a witness, said he was surprised to hear that Nana Kofi Yirenkyi had defiled his 10 year old daughter.
Mr Kwanor, uncle to the victim mother's mother said he also believed the victim's story.
Mr Kwanor was testifying in the case in which "Jesus One Touch" Founder and General Overseer of Jesus Blood Ministry, at Oblogo Manchester is being accused of allegedly defiling his 10-year-old daughter.
He has pleaded not guilty to incest and defilement and he has been remanded in Police custody.
Mr Kwanor, the fifth prosecution witness, admitted knowing the accused, victim and the complainant, Ms Bernice Owiredua, who happened to be his younger sister.
He said between February and March, this year, he was in his house at Dawu in the Eastern Region, when the victim's mother told him that the accused had asked her to come to Accra.
The witness said on the complainant's return, she brought the victim from Accra to Dawu.
Witness said because the victim was brought to Dawu, accused came there on three occasions.
On the third occasion, witness said the accused gave him 10 Ghana cedis saying: "if they were not going to give his daughter to him, then they
should keep her." Interestingly, the GH¢ 10 which was given to him was tendered in evidence
by the prosecution.
Witness said thereafter, the accused informed him that his other children had informed him (the accused) that one Efo, whom he lived with, had defiled the victim.
Mr Kwanor said when he asked the accused what he did when he heard the victim's story, accused told him that he got angry, slapped the said Efo and sacked him.
Later the witness said the victim told him that she would like to tell him "something."
The victim however informed Georgina Larbi, her aunty, that it was not Efo who defiled her but rather it was her father.
Answering questions under cross-examination by Mr K.N. Adomako, the defence counsel, witness admitted that he did not accompany the victim's mother to the hospital.
He denied ever confronting her sister (the Complainant) over the victim's story.
The next person to mount the witness box was Mr Christopher C. Gariba, a Teacher and Headmaster of the Radiant Way School at Sakaman in Accra.
Mr Gariba admitted that victim was a pupil in the school and that she was enrolled on January 11, 2006.
According to him, the victim, whom he described as an "average pupil" did not attend school regularly.
Witness said the victim's absence drew the school's attention to contact her parents to discuss the way forward.
Mr Gariba said the school management therefore sent letters inviting victim parents on three occasions but no one turned up.
The Class Register for the year 2009 was therefore tendered and admitted in evidence.
When asked whether he knew the accused, he told the court that he saw him only once on a week day at about 10.30 pm on the school premises when the
father had to pick the child himself because no one had picked her from school.
Answering questions under cross examination, he denied that he did not like the accused and that was why he had come to testify against him.
The prosecution's case was that the victim, who was born out of wedlock, lived with the complainant; Madam Bernice Owiredua Asamaa until 2005 when she left to live with the accused at McCarthy Hills in Accra to attend school.
Prosecution said between 2008 and 2009, accused started defiling the victim before every church service.
In November 2009, the accused granted an opportunity to the victim's mother to talk to her because she was putting up a bad behaviour.
It was during the interaction that the victim revealed her ordeal to the complainant.
The victim was initially examined by a medical doctor and later transferred to the Police Hospital for further treatment.
Hearing continues on April 21.