A former church elder has spoken out about how a well-intentioned gesture caused a period of his life that continues to haunt him.
The 63-year-old man related a story about how he had assisted a woman, but she chose to cruelly repay him for his generosity.
The elderly man revealed in an interview with Angel TV that he was an elder in a parish known as the Church of Christ, but that a Christian act of kindness caused him to serve 15 years in prison.
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He described the awful series of events that followed his selfless assistance to a young woman.
He said “I was heading home from Accra late at night when I spotted a woman walking home. I thought she was a church member, but upon our journey after boarding my private car, I noticed she wasn’t the one I thought she was. I then stopped the car for her to stop, but she insisted she take the journey with me because she’d been standing for long.”
The man then obliged the lady’s wish and took her to her destination and returned home to retire for the day, or so he had thought.
He continued, “Two hours later, I heard a knock at my door and decided to open it. A small boy notified me that a woman was looking for me.”
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“I then realised that it was the same woman I picked, and she asked for help. She humbly requests that I give her a place to sleep so she wakes and continues her journey.
“I did it out of a good heart and gave her a place to sleep. Early in the morning, she knocked at my door and everything; I decided to drop her where she’d get a car.” He said.
Not too long after offering help to the lady, he was summoned for questioning by the authorities. He thought the police needed his service at the station as a fridge repairman.
He said that instead, the woman had claimed he had forced himself on her, and charges had been opened at the station.
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He said, “I thought it was one of these jokes, but before I could realise it, I was sent from Ajumaku to Cape Coast.”
“I spent one-and-a-half years at remand before I was jailed for 15 years where Ataayi was. I made an arrangement for appeal, but the lawyer I hired spent my money. I spent three and a half years at Nsawam, but upon noticing things were hard there, I opted to go back to Cape Coast prison. That’s where I spent the rest of my jail term.”
