Renowned filmmaker Leila Djansi has waded into the imprisonment of popular televangelist, Mama Pat also known as Agradaa.
Sharing on her Facebook page, the director is of the opinion that many of her victims were well aware of what she does for a living and yet, spent all their savings to make her rich and powerful.
She wrote;
#Ghana
A Ghanaian pastor in a church I visited in Los Angeles once said,
“This handkerchief is $700. If you go for an interview or need something from someone, put it on the table or hold it to the phone.”
The same pastor claimed someone brought him three million dollars to pray over.
I visited another Ghanaian church recently. The pastor and I had an interesting conversation. He said, “We’re from Africa. And where we’re from, we have to pray.” He was right. Because the kind of things people willingly dabble in over there, it is frightening!
Listen, please…Agradaa is NOT the problem. The problem is WHAT she was able to capitalize on, and HOW and WHY.
You took your gold, your last savings, and handed it to Agradaa, who positioned herself as a voodoo priest, promising to double it. That doesn’t speak to her character. It speaks to yours!
YOU KNEW she was a voodoo satanic messenger, what did you go there for? You, despicable, desperate, willing to do anything for money. You would even have killed. Cast spells on people. Indeed, we have to pray!
She didn’t create the system. She thrived because the system was already in place. A culture of unchecked greed. A poverty soaked in superstition. A transactional theology system that allowed her to thrive. She’s not the sickness, she’s a symptom.
Then she rebranded. Became “Vangelist Mama Pat.”
Back when we were nursing my sister, my mother would say her name when she comes on TV, and my sister would laugh. The only time we knew she was still in there.
The woman was a comedian. A fraud. A performer who knew how to weaponize the Ghanaian against himself. Our greed,
laziness, desperation, wickedness and selfishness.
“In the temple courts he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves, and others sitting at tables exchanging money. So he made a whip out of cords and drove all from the temple courts…”John 2:14–16
Yet, you brought your money to church. To the Vangelist. To double for you. Christian… you? Liar. You want free money you didn’t work for. 419.
So if we’re jailing Agradaa, let’s jail every pastor on television asking people to sow seed for healing, for visas, for babies.
Let’s jail every prophet who sells breakthrough oil, every bishop marketing anointed tallits (prayer shawl) are you Hebrew???? every preacher peddling access to God.
Now, its Greek and Jewish names. Koinonia, kapish or kaposh everywhere in Ghana. How does using the hebrew word for grace make it more “anointed?” Why then was the bible translated? Imagine the holloww logic! Using hebrew words for spiritual weight. Kaposh. 🙄🙄🙄🙄
What they’re offering is not faith. It’s salesmanship. It’s a charlatanic advertisement. Using deception to sell fake miracles, empty prayers, or false hope. When someone leverages your ignorance or desperation for their personal gain.
Stop calling Ghana a Christian nation. It is not. I’m sorry.
What is practiced across pulpits and airwaves is not the gospel. It is transaction masked as worship. A belief system built on exchange: if I go to church, God will do something for me. That’s why you follow any man who calls himself pastor. It’s called hustling.
Politicians give T-shirts, rice, and oil. So you vote.
Pastors give slogans, stickers, and water. So you believe and pay.
Our hearts are already corrupted, and Agradaa simply offered the avenue. Don’t use Agradaa to feel better about who you are. Change, so when another Agrdaa comes, it won’t find a market.
Mercy!!
The former traditional priestess turned evangelist, Patricia Asiedua Asiamah, widely known as Nana Agradaa, was sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment with hard labour by an Accra Circuit Court for her involvement in fraudulent religious activities.
