A video has surfaced on social media of an inmate jailed for ten years over a bag of cement amid the brouhaha surrounding the reduced sentence of evangelist Patricia Asiedua, popularly known as Agradaa.
According to the inmate in the viral video, who has been identified as Ahmed he attempted to steal a bag of cement from his master who is a mason to sell and he got caught.
Speaking on Crime Check TV, when asked what he was doing in Prison Ahmed stated, “ I stole my master’s cement, and I ended up in jail”.
I have been working with him, and I was going to steal it in the evening when someone caught me. It was one bag, and I was going to sell it for either 70 cedis or 80 cedis”.
The inmate further accused his former master of not paying him well when they used to work together. He was a mason, and I was a labourer.
The video has surfaced at a time, some Ghanaian legal practitioners are mounting pressure on the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Dr Dominic Ayine, to appeal evangelist Patricia Asiedua, popularly known as Agradaa reduced jail term by the Amasaman High Court.
The Amasaman High Court’s decision on February 5, 2026, described Agradaa’s original punishment as harsh and excessive under the circumstances of the case.
The Amasaman High Court, in its decision, affirmed her conviction but exercised its discretion to vary the sentence, reducing the 15 years of hard labour earlier imposed by the trial court.
Agradaa’s revised sentence takes effect from July 3, 2025, the date of her conviction, which means she will serve a total of 12 months in prison.
The court decision will now see Agradaa being freed from prison by July 2026.
The Amasaman High Court added that although the offences for which Agradaa was convicted warranted punishment, the severity of the initial sentence was disproportionate under the circumstances, justifying a downward adjustment.
Following the Amasaman High Court decision, Samson Lardy Anyenini, a legal practitioner and broadcast journalist, has told the Attorney General to act and appeal the reduced sentence handed to evangelist Patricia Asiedua, commonly known as Agradaa.
According to Anyenini, Agradaa was convicted of misdemeanour and second-degree felony.
He stressed that under the old legal regime, the maximum custodial sentence should not exceed 10 years.
Samson Lardy Anyenini urged the Attorney General to take up the matter in the Court of Appeal to reverse the sentence.
Anyenini further urged the AG to overturn the sledgehammer ruling and restore the teeth to our criminal justice system, warning that failure would amount to an abdication of the state’s duty to protect the public.
Speaking on JoyNews’ NewsFile on Saturday, February 7, 2026, Anyenini stated, “This is not where you sit back and say, ‘Oh, I did my case, got 15 years, and the court has reduced it to one year, so my job is done. No, the state, which has hired you to work, requires you to take this case up to the Court of Appeal and get this sentence reversed,” he stated.
Samson Lardy Anyenini stressed that Ghana’s Justice thresholds were not set for nothing.
“If the state does not appeal this reduction, it signals an abdication of its duty to protect the public from such spiritual predators,” he indicated.
“I mean, the repentant, unquote, get a pass, while the poor rot in jail for stealing a goat. AG, it is time to act. Overturn this sledgehammer ruling and restore the teeth to our criminal justice system,” he said.
Watch the video below:
10 years because of 70 Cedis, and Agradaa is just 1 year, chale the laws for Ghana here them for explain give some of us well 😌😌 pic.twitter.com/9fxIBJExrw
— NEBASARK🇬🇭 (@NEBASARK) February 8, 2026