An example of how Christians should NOT treat journalists
Some Christians are mad as March hares:
Three pastors, including the self-styled and controversial Reverend Bishop Daniel Obinim, were on August 9, 2011, granted bail by an Accra Circuit court after they allegedly assaulted three journalists and a panelist on an Accra-based radio station, Hot FM on the night of August 8.
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Obinim, the 33-year old founder of the International God’s Way Church, and two of his pastors, Kofi Akweitey and Kingsley Baah, are facing three counts of conspiracy to commit a crime, causing harm, and causing damage to private property.
The pastors had angrily stormed the studios of Hot FM to protest their exclusion from the programme, which discussed an alleged sex scandal involving Obinim and another pastor’s wife. The station played a tape recording purported to have implicated the founder in the scandal.
“They attacked the host and other staff members with a pinch bar and other weapons inflicting injuries on their bodies,” the prosecutor said.
And because of their actions, the original allegation of indiscretion goes global, as well as their subsequent appalling behavior.
Tags: Media
August 16th, 2011 at 2:12 pm
Is Kingsley Baah related to Joshua Humbug?
August 16th, 2011 at 2:43 pm
Ha!
August 16th, 2011 at 7:41 pm
Stretching it a bit canvassing sympathy for journalists when same in the U.K. have been inciting the lynch mob to target welfare recipients, evict innocent 8 year olds from their homes and cut/end subsistence welfare.
Social cleansing of the (sub) working class by forced evictions and subsistence welfare terminations have been on the political classes agenda for decades and placed into law most notable in the welfare refom act 2009.
Social cleansing by the manipulation of housing benefit, pressured evictions and the denial of subsistence welfare with the tool of conditionality were pre-riot realities. The political classes and the media have used the cover of the riots to opportunistically sell the social and economic division of the U.K. to the British people.
Not so much anarchy in the U.K. but “Arbeit macht frei” in the U.K.