A self-acclaimed pastor Matthew Osika has been arrested by the Berekum Police in the Bono Region after stealing musical instruments of the Methodist church in other to establish his own church.
The instruments belonged to Amankokwaa Methodist Church in the Berekum West District but some criminals broke into the church and made away with the instruments.
Though the matter had been reported to the police who confirmed they were investigating the theft, it turned out that the musical instruments were packed in the home of the suspect who claimed he also bought them from someone he refused to name to start his own church.
According to a senior member of the church one Paul Asante Bonah, they had been tipped the items were in the home of the suspect so they in turn informed the police and subsequently went to the suspect’s house where he was arrested upon seeing the instruments in his room.
