NOGOKPO SAGA: PAUL ADOM-OTCHERE CRITICIZES AGYINASARE FOR VIOLATING THE CONTITUTION

“Article 21 of the Republic Constitution (General Fundamental Freedoms) states that all persons shall have the right to freely practice any religion and manifest such practice. In the 1960 population census, religion was classified into three categories: African Traditional Religion, Christianity and Islam… and that is how all population censuses have been conducted since then.

“The symbol of Christian worship is the church; the symbol of Islamic worship is the mosque and the symbol of African Traditional Religion is the shrine. Therefore, a religious leader should not be able to say that the representation of a shrine is demonic, under the 1992 constitution you can’t say that.

“Because you see, we Christians use the word demonic, Muslims use the word demonic and so does the African Traditional Religion,” he said.

The broadcaster added that the archbishop saying that a tyre of the vehicle of his associate pastor was removed on the Nogokpo road because of demons is wrong because Christians are to attribute anything that happens to them to God.

Also, Adom-Otchere said that the 14-day ultimatum issued by the chiefs of Nogokpo for Agyinasare to appear before them is illegal.