Nana Agradaa also known as Evangelist Patricia Asiedua, has reacted to allegations of fraud and denied defrauding or swindling her church members.
She explained in a video that she actually invited church members for service last Friday and gave out money to help them with their various businesses.
According to her, on Friday, October 7th, 2022, she extended an invitation to anyone who was interested in receiving help to come to church and convert to Christianity, becoming a member of the church community.
She said that, as usual for a church, there was also fundraising through offertory last Friday.
So if new members, who were attending church for the first time and wrote their names, offered money to support the church and did not receive anything in return from her, they should count that as new members, their opportune time will surely come and therefore should not attribute that to fraud.
She questioned the allegation that the GH¢1000, GH¢800, GH¢700, and coins offertory by members who attended the church service and willingly donated, should be interpreted as fraud.
The police on Sunday arrested Nana Agradaa, the Founder of the Heaven Way Church at Weija in Accra, over an alleged money doubling scam charge levelled against her by some church members.
That followed viral social media reports showing members of the church, both new and old, who had thronged the church premises to demand their money.
In a statement issued on October 9, 2022, the police said the suspect was assisting the police in investigations into the matter.
The police have, therefore, urged victims of the alleged money-doubling scam to report to the Accra Regional Police Command for further investigations.
A viral video last Saturday showed aggrieved members of the church alleging that their leader, a one-time traditional priestess, had swindled them.
According to them, Nana Agradaa, also known as Mama Pat, had promised to double their money through her special spiritual purifications.
Consequently, the church members said, they gave her various sums of money, only to find out that the promise was a hoax.