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Conviction Christian institutions & contexts Evangelical, Pentecostal, and independent Weija, Accra, Ghana · 2025

Ghana: evangelist sentenced for defrauding congregants with a claimed spiritual money-doubling ritual

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

founder and leader, Heaven Way Champion International Ministry

Organization

Heaven Way Champion International Ministry

Spiritual nexus

Agradaa, a former traditional priestess turned church founder, invoked claimed spiritual power over money itself to induce her own congregants at an all-night service to hand over cash for 'doubling' — a ritual authority claim made from the pulpit of her own ministry to the people gathered under it, not a general advertisement to strangers.

  • Prosperity, divination, or curse-removal claim

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 2025-07-18 · trial and sentencing

    Circuit Court, Accra, Ghana. Patricia Asiedua Asiamah, known as Nana Agradaa, founder of Heaven Way Champion International Ministry, was convicted on three counts of defrauding by false pretence and sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment with hard labour.

  2. 2026-01-01 · sentence appeal

    Amasaman High Court, Ghana. The High Court reduced the 15-year sentence to 12 months; the underlying convictions were not disturbed.

Appellate history

  1. The Amasaman High Court reduced the 15-year sentence to 12 months on appeal in 2026; the underlying conviction on three counts of defrauding by false pretences was not overturned.

Documented coercion mechanisms

  • claimed spiritual power to double money offered in an all-night church service
  • prior standing as a traditional priestess turned evangelist, invoked to lend credibility to the ritual claim

Primary record

Sources

national press sentencing report Citi Newsroom, 'Agradaa jailed 15 years for money doubling scam' (18 July 2025).

Reports that an Accra circuit court sentenced Patricia Asiedua Asiamah, known as Nana Agradaa, to 15 years' imprisonment with hard labour on three counts of defrauding by false pretence, arising from a 2022 televised broadcast in which she claimed spiritual power to double money offered at an all-night service at her church, Heaven Way Champion International Ministry, Weija, Accra, then failed to return the funds.

national press appellate report GBC Ghana Online, 'Ghanaians divided after High Court slashes Agradaa's 15-year prison term to 12 months' (2026).

Confirms the Amasaman High Court reduced Nana Agradaa's sentence from 15 years to 12 months on appeal, while the underlying fraud convictions stood.

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