The Good Book says “Touch not my anointed; and do my prophets no harm”. Owing to the foregoing injunction, many people have either tried to shy away from a raging feud between two of the country’s Men of God, who have lately been trading insults, invectives and plain vituperation at each other.
Would you believe that because of the seeming estrangement between these two men of God? They are not on talking terms? The beleaguered pastor/prophets are Rev. Ebenezer Adarkwa Yiadom a.k.a Prophet One or Kumasi Moses of the Ebenezer Miracle Worship Centre, Ahenema Kokoben, Kumasi and Bishop Daniel Obinim, General Overseer of the International Godsway Church, also based in Kumasi.
Ebenezer is aged just a little over 40, while Obinim is 32. Bishop Obinim as if delivering a benediction, has said that he has heard of plots to kill him by Ebenezer Adarkwah Yiadom and prayed that no one should arrest Adarkwa Yiadom, after, he Obinim has been shot dead. This is because he, Obinim, knows he would go to Heaven adding “as for Rev. Ebenezer Adarkwa Yiadom, I don’t know where his soul would go to”.
Hot FM, an Accra-based radio station also has a recording of Rev. Ebenezer Adarkwa Yiadom and his pastors cursing Obinim. On the tape, Ebenezer himself, is heard asking whether Bishop Obinim has got what it takes to challenge him spiritually. He does that in a din-dong exchange with Obinim who also stands his ground saying, he’s not afraid of Ebenezer and believes that what Ebenezer Adarkwa Yiadom does is not of God. Those exchanges believable took place on New Mercury FM, which Rev. Adarkwa Yiadom owns.
In a fit of exasperation, one of Adarkwa Yiadom’s pastors retorts by saying, ‘Wo Ni Twa ase seven hundred” – a vulgar Asante expression which means “the ashes of your mother’s vagina sticks seven hundred times”. As the exchanges between the two most celebrated pastors from Kumasi as of now rages, many people have been wondering what must be eating the two prophets up? as each appears to stand their grounds. What Rev. Ebenezer Adarkwa Yiadom holds against Bishop Obinim is that Obinim had claimed that God has let him take dominion over the souls of the people of the Tema area. Obinim said this when he set camp in Tema recently.
Currently, Ebenezer also has set camp at the Spintex Road at Flower pot near the Lister hospital in Accra. The two are miracle pastors. Both of them have preaching slots on Metro TV on Saturdays. One thing they have in common is that in recent times, each one of them has been able to raise a man from the dead. Adarkwa goes further to claim that at the time when a fetish priest, Kweku Bonsam, rose against pastors in the country, he was the only man of God who called the bluff of Nana Kwaku Bonsah.
One Naana, a resident of Kumasi, who claimed to have befriended the two pastors at the same time was said to be the cause of the fight between the two pastors, but close allies of the men of God including their junior pastors have repudiated that. The Christian Council of Ghana (CCG) was said to be utterly shocked at the exchanges between the two prophets, with Dr. Fred Deegbe describing it as a shame to the name of God. Dr Fred Deegbe is the General Secretary of the CCG.
