A 45-year-old self-styled prophetess has been jailed five years by the Asante Akropong Circuit Court in the Atwima Nwabiagya North District for stealing personal belongings and cash valued at GHC 27,270 at Asante Abuakwa.
Ama Salifu, who is also a trader, pleaded guilty to the charge of stealing and was convicted on her own plea, by the court presided by Mrs Gloria Mensah Bonsu.
Police Chief Inspector Evans Ayimbisa, presenting the facts of the case to the court, described the convict as a confident trickster.
He said on April 17, this year, the convict met one Josephina Owusuaa the first complainant, on her way to a laundry at the Abuakwa SDA junction.
The convict stopped her and introduced herself as a prophetess with a message from God to her.
She then told the complainant to leave her bag containing GHc 1,200.00 cash and iphone XR, valued at GHC 3,000.00 with a certain trader at the junction and go to a certain woman for a spiritual message at the Abuakwa shell filling station.
Prosecution said, the complainant obeyed but could not find the said woman and returned only to meet the absence of the convict.
She went to the trader for her bag, but she was informed that the convict portrayed herself as her mother and collected the bag.
The case was therefore, reported to the Abuakwa police.
According to the Prosecution, in early August, 2025, the convict again, introduced herself as a prophetess to a 16-year- old girl at Abuakwa market and told her that, her mother, Priscilla Owusu Achiaa, the second complainant, was under a serious spiritual attack and needed deliverance.
Prosecution explained that the girl led the convict home and she collected 29 pieces of new material garments, two Kente garments, two ladies’ slippers, four pieces of wax prints all valued at GHC 20,000, belonging to the second complainant and her sister.
She also collected one iphone 6s valued at GHC 900 and GHC 170 cash to use all as points of intercessory prayer for the deliverance.
Chief Inspector Ayimbisa said, the convict after collecting the items, went into hiding till October 13, 2025, when she was spotted and arrested at Abuakwa-Manhyia.
In her caution statement, she admitted stealing and told the police that she sold the items to someone at Kumasi-Krofrom but couldn’t lead the police to trace that dishonest receiver.
After further investigations she was charged and brought before the court.
GNA
