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KWAKU BONSAM
: I give Pastors Kofio Kofi:
The dreadeded
fetish Priest Nana Kwaku Bonsam has claimed that
he has given over 1,000 Men of God in Ghana the
power to perform miracles.
Furthermore, the fetish priest maintained that
he has accepted a challenge from one of his
critics who had dared him in a battle of
supernatural powers.
Nana Kwaku Bonsam told DAILY GUIDE last Monday
at his shrine at Sa-Peiman, a village on the
outskirts of Nsawam in the Eastern Region, that
his god is called ‘Kofi-Kofi’, from whom he
sources powers for the pastors who come to him
and are ready to pay for his services.
The fetish priest said for the past six years he
has kept a low profile and not blown the cover
of the pastors, but is ready to expose them now
because the very pastors who had come to him for
powers have started condemning him in public,
with some even daring to challenge him.
When DAILY GUIDE got to Kwaku Bonsam’s shrine,
hundreds of people had gathered there to secure
his services. Judging by their appearance and
the type of ‘posh’ cars they had parked at the
premises, some were obviously in lucrative
businesses.
Others appeared to be middle-class market women
and young men who are eager to make it in life.
The rule is that one could only enter the shrine
barefooted and without a phone or a wrist watch.
The fetish priest is by no means a poor man, as
anyone who enters his shrine for consultation
pays an amount of GH¢10 aside the cost of the
rituals.
As part of his rituals, the priest hangs a cat
alive and slaughters several fowls, a white
dove, pigeons and goats and then spills the
blood on his god.
The inner shrine is parked with several other
gods and also has many cartons of talcum powder,
Holy Bibles, razor-sharp machetes hung around
the room, a riffle, golden rings, money,
padlocks, calabashes and many other items which
were veiled.
DAILY GUIDE (DG): Who is Nana Kwaku Bonsam?
KWAKU BONSAM (KB): That is my name and as you
can see, I am an Ashanti fetish priest; a
powerful one of course, and I use my powers to
heal the sick, help people who want to travel
abroad, help traders get better sales, protect
people from fraudsters, dis-empower witches and
wizards or help people who have one problem or
the other.
And I am well-known for the wonders I perform in
this country so I receive people from all parts
of the country and even people from other
countries.
DG: What type of ailments do you cure?
KB: Oh, I have cured and continue to cure
sicknesses like lunacy, barrenness, stroke,
epilepsy and any other disease you can think of,
except leprosy. I have not done that before.
DG: That sounds good, but why the name “Bonsam”;
it connotes something evil.
KB: I got that name due to the wonders I
perform. I once took my gods, ‘Kofi-Kofi’ and ‘Chacha’
to the palace of the chief of Techiman and I was
able to conjure money, a gold watch,
handkerchief and other things there and that was
so wonderful that the chief of Techiman, Nana
Ekumfi Ameyaw IV said since I was called Kwaku
and every Kwaku has ‘Bonsam’ as his nickname I
must be a real Kwaku Bonsam to have performed
the kind of things I did and that was it - the
name just stuck.
At the palace, I was able to plant cocoa seeds
and they germinated on that same day; I planted
a mango seed and it germinated the same day and
I killed a house-fly, resurrected it and made it
fly round for all to see.
I also conjured a ‘Kente’ and a pair of royal
sandals. So it is not that I kill people or I
destroy things; rather I stand for good things.
DG: For how long have you been doing this?
KB: I am in my fifth year, nearing my sixth
year, and I did not learn my skills or beg for
it from anybody.
DG: How did you come by it?
KB: I was working at a gas station and there was
this time someone was sick and I had to send him
to the hospital though I did not know him.
After he was treated the man gave me his address
and asked me to visit him later. I followed the
address and it took me to the North, way after
Navrongo.
I finally got to him at a village and after a
brief stay, he gave me something and said what
he was giving me would send my name very far and
no one can bring me to shame in my entire
lifetime and that my children would inherit the
blessings of what he was giving me.
At that time I did not know what it was and I
was a little disappointed because I thought he
was going to give me some money for the help I
gave him; rather he gave me a deity.
The next day I threw it away but it came back to
me and that made me a little scared. I then
threw it in a manhole but the manhole exploded
and it came back to me again.
Then there was this time I went to witness a
fetish dance and I got possessed and started to
perform wonders for the first time.
DG: What exactly were the wonders?
KB: Anything I touched turned into money and I
even stood on a fresh egg, which did not break.
After that incident a lot of other deities
appeared in my room on their own. So it was not
as if I went to buy my powers and idols. They
came on their own.
DG: Is it true some pastors come to you for
powers?
KB: Yes it is true. I give powers to perform
miracles to a lot of pastors. Currently I have
over one thousand seven hundred and something
pastors; I might need to look into my register
for the figure.
DG: How do you give the powers to them?
KB: When they come to me I give golden rings to
some of them after taking them through a ritual
bath. I give them the ring and a Bible and the
power I want them to get is what I put in the
ring.
I give some the power to heal, others to see
into the future and or the past, or do anything
I want them to do. It helps their churches get
more members who always want to see signs and
wonders.
DG: Some Pastors have taken you on and dared you
to mention the names of which pastors come to
you. Rev. Ebenezer Adarkwa-Yiadom had even dared
you to an open challenge of supernatural powers
on the 15th of this month.
KB: I want to tell that Pastor in plain language
that I Nana Kwaku Bonsam has not challenged any
Man of God.
I am only against those false pastors who have
come to me for powers and yet are not keeping
their mouth shut but rather making provocative
statements against me.
I am also against those who have gone for powers
from other shrines yet preach against us and do
not abide by our rules.
I heard Rev. Yiadom in the media saying I have
gone to buy a god from somewhere and I have no
powers and I should name those who come to me
and all that.
This whole problem started when Pastor Collins
Agyei Yeboah, that pastor from Vision
Charismatic Chapel at Kato (near Berekum in the
Brong Ahafo region) came for miracle powers from
me and was misbehaving to an extent that my gods
asked me to go and collect the power else I
would pay with my life.
This was what annoyed the pastors in town and
they started attacking me. Well, at least that
is one clear example of a Man of God who has
come to me for powers.
If my gods had not asked me to go and take back
my powers I would not have spoken out because it
was supposed to have been a secret.
DG: And what about the challenge?
KB: I think he is the one calling for the
challenge to see what I have got. I am the
defender of the title so I would determine the
venue.
I want the whole world to hear me loud and clear
that I proudly accept to challenge Rev. Yiadom
or any other pastor but I want to do that at the
forecourt of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation
(GBC) on the Ringway in Accra. I can kill a
house-fly and bring it back to life.
I can conjure money from nowhere. I can plant a
palm tree and make it grow that same day. I can
pull the edge of a sharpened cutlass on my
throat without it cutting me. And I can heal a
lot of sicknesses.
I hear he can open the eyes of the blind so I
have gone to see the authorities of the School
for the Blind at Akropong in the Eastern region
that I need two busloads of blind people.
I am also arranging for two busloads of the deaf
and dumb plus a busload of cripples.
I want to meet that pastor and his group at the
GBC forecourt for us to see who is who. Anytime
he is ready I would face him live and colored,
else he is not the pastor he claims to be. He
threw the challenge and I have accepted it.
When we meet and I fail to do my wonders, then I
should be called a liar. I would also laugh at
him if he fails to do his part.
DG: Are you challenging God?
KB: No. It is not God I am challenging but this
is a pastor challenging a fetish priest and I
want to show him the other side of the world. I
have not attacked these pastors but they are
always insulting me on radio instead of
preaching the word of God.
Put me on record that I am ready to face that
pastor and some other pastors they call Computer
man and Kum-Cha-Cha.
They should open the eyes of the blind on that
day or shut up. My god ‘Kofi oooo Kofi’ says he
is ready to face them before the television
cameras. I would not allow them to bring anybody
from somewhere to come and play some tricks on
Ghanaians.
They should combine to pray for fire to drop
from heaven to consume me; but if they are not
able to stop me from doing the wonders I have
always done, then they should burn their Bibles
because they cannot use the powers in it.
DG: Are you daring all pastors?
KB: There are some few good pastors in town; Dr.
Mensah Otabil is one and he has never insulted
me. Madam Modicia Adomako, a pastor in Kumasi,
Bishop Agyin Asare and Archbishop Duncan
Williams are all good pastors.
The orthodox pastors are not insulting me but it
is these ‘two-by-four’ pastors who are creating
the problems. The anointed pastors are rather
not talking or challenging me.
It is these false pastors who want publicity
that are attacking me in the media and I am now
ready to face them once and for all.
DG: What does a fetish priest know about false
pastors?
KB: Why do they come to me all the time? Listen
to how they preach in their churches and mention
the names of their church members who have AIDS
as if it is not an embarrassing disease and
should be kept confidential. Such pastors preach
with much arrogance and are not humble.
Why are they riding in a lot of cars when their
church members are hungry? The Bible itself says
we should all bring our belongings, sell and
share with the poor and needy.
The necklace on the necks of some of them is
longer than that on a burger who just returned
from Holland. You might be too young to know
what a ‘Burger Kuperlee’ is.
Some of them are using the church for fashion
parade and sell their anointing oils at very
high prices - some as high as five hundred
thousand cedis.
Was that not why Jesus beat up the gamblers in
the temple? Some pastors today are virtually
being worshipped by their church members, when
Jesus himself was a humble person; yet they turn
round to insult Kwaku Bonsam.
Let them preach the gospel and leave me alone.
DG: I am surprised you are computer literate and
you have two laptop computers.
KB: Why? Look here, I have four Laptops and not
two; I use them to store data. I have been to
school a little and I am still learning.
DG: What do you do with the Bibles in your
shrine?
KB: I was not born a fetish priest. I was
attending church when I got possessed and if I
wanted to do what the others are doing I would
have attached my fetish to my Bible and called
myself Reverend Stephen Osei Mensah.
When I was in school my name was Stephen Osei
Mensah. You cannot cheat me with the Bible; I
study it a lot. If we had time we would have
gone into some biblical doctrines.
Source: Daily Guide, Ghana.
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