Pastor Stephen Addy Powell
Pastor Stephen Addy Powell, the pastor of Crown Power Ministries International who has been dragged to an Accra Circuit Court for allegedly licking a hairdresser’s vagina, under the pretext of praying for her, used a white handkerchief to wipe his mouth after he licked her.
The pastor, who was charged with indecent assault, also told her that if she knew the evil spirit he exorcised from her, she would have been grateful to God.
This was disclosed by the complainant Nana Ama Asabea, a resident of Omanjor near Sowutuom in Accra, in a court presided over by Mrs. Georgina Mensah-Datsa during her examination in-chief led by ASP Sarah Ekua Acquah.
The hairdresser told the court that on April 15, 2011, at about 1.00pm, she received a call from the accused person introducing himself as a pastor and said her number was given to him by one of her friends called Twumasi.
She said the pastor, who said he was with Twumasi, gave the phone to her friend who spoke to her, after which the pastor said he had a vision concerning her marriage and would like to see her.
According to her, the pastor came to her house and said he had something to tell her so she took him to her room while her sister was in the kitchen, adding that all this while, Twumasi and others who accompanied the pastor were waiting for him outside the house.
She said the accused person told her that she had a problem with her marriage because she had been spiritually married to a spirit and suggested that they should pray. In the course of the prayer, he asked her to hold him tight because the spirit behind her woes was in the room.
The complainant noted that the self-styled Pastor Addy Powell later told her to lie in a supine position for him to remove something spiritual from her stomach, and when she obliged, the pastor used a handkerchief to wipe her face and she became dazed.
The hairdresser said the accused person took advantage of the situation and shifted her panty aside and started licking her, but in the process, she regained consciousness and started struggling with him and eventually set herself free.
In addition, the hairdresser said she asked him why he acted the way he did since he did not know her and the accused person knelt down and apologized to her, after which she told him to get up.
The complainant noted that when the pastor stood up, he spat into the white handkerchief which he had earlier used to wipe her face with and told her if she knew the evil spirit he had just taken away from her by his action, she would thank him.
According to the complainant, the pastor again begged for his action and said he did not want her friend Twumasi or anybody else to know what had transpired between them and called her friend in before asking him to pray and then they left.
She said she later informed Twumasi about the incident who said it was not the first time someone had accused the pastor of licking.
But J.K. Yeboah, counsel for the accused person, objected to that allegation so the trial judge asked her to stick to the issue.
The hairdresser said she later called him back into her room and recorded their conversation on her mobile phone, during which she asked him why he licked her, to which he said his wife could not satisfy him sexually and so he had resolved to lick any lady whenever he had the opportunity, but said he did not usually sleep with them.
Under cross-examination by counsel for the accused person, the hairdresser said she did not know the pastor and had never seen him till he came to visit her at home that day.
She denied that the act was consensual but explained that she hugged the pastor when he said she could do so.
The complainant denied that she demanded GH¢2,000 from the pastor with the aim of blackmailing him, but said a lawyer of the accused person suggested that amount when the pastor offered a compensation of GH¢200, adding that she had never asked him for anything.
The case has been adjourned to October 17, 2011.
 By Fidelia Achama