Jesus One Touch Contemplated Committing Suicide

Prophet Nana Kofi Yirenkyi, aka Jesus Onetouch, who was convicted last January for incest says he thought of killing himself in the first week of his incarceration at the Nsawam Medium Security Prison.

Speaking exclusively to the Times newspaper at the Prison, Nana Yirenkyi, Founder and General Overseer of Jesus Blood Prophetic Ministry, said he contemplated committing suicide because he dreaded life in prison.

Prophet Yirenkyi, 47, whose trial became the focus of media attention and public interest is serving a 10-year jail term for defiling his 10-year old daughter.

Narrating his experience in Prison, Prophet Yirenkyi said he was so much apprehensive about the new life ahead of him that he embarked on a hungry strike. “However, the prison authorities engaged me in a series of counseling to overcome my initial challenges,” he told the paper.

He said, though as a man of God, he should not have thought of suicide, circumstances leading to his incarceration had weakened him. “I am now adjusting to prison life after many counseling sessions, and visits by my family members and my congregation,” he said.
The Prophet maintains his position that he was framed up, but said: “I take solace in the fact that Christ went through many temptations and tribulations but eventually came out victorious.”

He said he still stood by the curse he evoked on himself immediately after the conviction that if he was responsible for the crime, God should visit His wrath on him, but added: “I am looking forward to His miracle for the truth to come out eventually”.

He said he would appeal against his conviction. Prophet Yirenkyi was arrested in March 2010 on the charges of having sex with his 10-year-old daughter born out of wedlock. According to the prosecution, the victim who had been living with her mother at Mamfe Akuapem in the Eastern Region until 2005, was sent to Prophet Yirenkyi at McCarthy Hill in Accra to attend school.

Between 2008 and 2009, Prophet Yirenkyi started having intercourse with her daughter before church services, but in November 2009, he invited her mother “to come and talk to her for putting up a bad character”. This gave the child the opportunity to reveal her ordeal to her mother who reported the matter to the police.