‘President’ Returns Visa Cash

The presidential candidate of New Vision Party, a comatose political party, Prophet Yaw Daniel Nkansah, who claimed that he was a victim of his political opponents, the New Patriotic Party, has deposited GH¢2,000 to the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) headquarters in Accra where he is facing a visa fraud charge.

Nkansah has been hauled to the CID headquarters for allegedly defrauding a number of people of various sums of money including a businesswoman, Comfort Opoku of $4,000, under the guise of securing her a US visa.

The prophet, who is the leader and founder of the New Vision Party, was said to have demanded the money from Ms. Opoku as part payment of GH¢10,000, being the cost of securing a five-year US visa for her.

The victim had already paid an initial registration fee of GH¢500. He has been declared wanted in Kumasi by a circuit court over similar allegations.

According to a source close to the victim, they (members of the church) were supposed to travel as members of the New Vision Party through protocol arrangements from the Foreign Affairs Ministry.

However, after several weeks of what seemed to be a sort of deception on the part of the prophet, the victim decided to withdraw from the supposed party tour.

“An agreement was documented that the amount would be refunded should she decide otherwise,” the source said.

Nevertheless, when she suggested her withdrawal from the said party tour and demanded her money, Prophet Nkansah kept urging her to exercise patience as everything was in the right direction.

The source indicated that on May 19, 2010, Prophet Nkansah took his victim, in the company of his wife and child, to the US Embassy for the said visa. However, unknown to the victim, her name had been presented as the party’s co-ordinator.

She was interviewed in that respect but was denied the visa since she could not convince the consular as to what business the party had to do in the US.

After this episode, the businesswoman was more convinced that the prophet was a fraudster and intensified her demand for her money.

Her persistent request for her refund provoked the politician clergy man that he showered insults on her anytime she reminded him of the refund.

When matters got worst, she then reported the case at the CID headquarters where an investigation was started into the matter.

Prophet Nkansah has since paid GH¢2,000 out of the $4,000 and was expected to pay the rest yesterday.

However, DAILY GUIDE checks revealed he did not show up at the CID headquarters as earlier arranged.

According to the source, several others who registered for the tour and paid unspecified amounts of money to the prophet are suffering in silence, with no hope of getting their money back.

The man at the centre of the storm said it was the NPP that was orchestrating the allegation.

According to him, the NPP was threatened by his party’s decision to contest the Atiwa by-election in the Eastern Region, and so had resorted to a smear campaign against him.

“In 2008, the NPP brought me 2billion cedis to join the party but I refused the money.

And in 2010, I went to Ashanti Region and did free health insurance for some people and stayed there for three months. During that time, NPP executives came to me and told me to join the party but I told them I am not going to join any party in Ghana,” he claimed.

Prophet Nkansah had told his victims who are all over the country that he had received invitations from France, Canada and the US to launch branches of the party in those countries.

The travelling agent, he claimed, charged each of the about 20 interested party members GH¢5000 for the trip but six of them demanded a refund which Mr. Nkansah said was impossible.

“Six of them said they were withdrawing from the trip and that they wanted their money. So I told them that the agent had used the money to prepare the documents and everything so the money could not be refunded but they told me that I am the founder of the party so I have to pay.

They disagreed with me and started going to radio stations to disgrace me. So I quickly filed a writ of summons against them about this people (sic). High court sent people from Accra to Kumasi and served them to appear before the court but they failed to come.

They didn’t even file any defence but this morning I hear that I am wanted by a Kumasi circuit court and there is no court that has invited me, so how can they use a bench warrant against Prophet Nkansah?” he told Citi FM in Accra yesterday

Source: D-Guide