The pastor, Apostle Daniel Junior Yaw Adjei, who was arrested over alleged derogatory remarks about Prophet Mohammed, is now demanding a public apology and compensation from the Ghana Police Service.
According to the Pastor, he was humiliated and mistreated at the Police Headquarters.
He demanded that the police publicly apologise for the treatment he received and compensate him for losses he claims to have suffered.
Speaking in a recent interview with Blakk Rasta, he stated, “For what they did to me, when I went there, I want an apology and compensation. These two things are what I’m requesting from the police. A public apology from the police for what they did by inviting these people and even threatening me that they will take me to their community to beat me up”.
“If we don’t deal with this matter and we sweep it under the carpet, in the future we don’t know what will happen,” he warned.
“They humiliated me; even the person who said he would cut somebody’s head, his image is not in the police account. I’m the only person whose image is there. So it’s like a form of humiliation to me…it was just to humiliate me and tarnish my name,” he stated.
He added, “This thing that has happened has cost me a lot of things. I’ve lost a lot of things, even my phones and everything. So, we want the police to apologise publicly and then compensate the ministry [church] that we are doing and make a public statement that they are wrong by doing what they did, and I think the apology and everything will solve the problem”.
“I just want to make a case for the people to know that this must stop. It shouldn’t happen again. So that people will learn from this that even if you are powerful, we are all under the law. Nobody should take the law into his hands, try to hurt his brother,” he said.
He further recounted how a CID officer challenged his account, claiming he wasn’t assaulted.
The Pastor added, “It was a slap, and the CID even challenged me on that I’m lying and nobody slapped me.
“So it’s a humiliation, and their followers were enjoying it on the media that I have received a slap. So, they wanted to humiliate me, and that’s why they did what they did. So even though they say it’s not hard or whatever, I felt the slap”.
“I never spoke to him. When I went to the police station, they invited them, and he started questioning me, that have I seen any Muslim insulting Jesus before? And I said, yes, countless Sheikhs have insulted Jesus,” he explained.
He concluded, “And they said, ‘Okay, so that is why you were replying to the same insult’ and I said, ‘ That is not the case. He didn’t allow me to continue, so I just stopped. From there, I never made any comment again. They did whatever they want to do, put a microphone on my chest, recorded everything.”
The development comes on the heels of three men at the centre of a recent religious controversy being brought together by the National Chief Imam.
During an engagement with religious leaders at the National Police Headquarters on Friday, August 14, the three men at the centre of the controversy were spotted in a viral video sharing hugs.
The engagement brought together the pastor who was allegedly slapped, the Muslim man accused of assaulting him, and the imam who was captured in a video promoting violence against people who insult Prophet Mohammed.
In the viral video, the pastor, dressed in brown and in the middle, hugged the Muslim man who had allegedly slapped him at the police headquarters.
The pastor then embraced the imam whose earlier video had sparked controversy over comments allegedly calling for violence against people who speak ill of the Prophet. Mohammed
Elvis Afriyie Ankrah, the Presidential Envoy on Interfaith and Ecumenical Relations, also joined them and hugged the three men.
Watch the video below:
“I’m requesting a public apology and compensation from the Ghana Police Service for being humiliated at the Police Headquarters. This matter cannot be swept under the carpet.”
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