VIDEO: Husband of Nana Agradaa speaks after 15-year sentence

Mr. Eric Oduro Assiamah, husband of embattled former fetish priestess turned evangelist Patricia Asiedua, popularly known as Nana Agradaa, has fiercely criticised the 15-year jail term handed to his wife, describing it as unjust and a misinterpretation of religious practice.

Speaking publicly after the ruling by an Accra Circuit Court on Thursday, July 3, 2025, Mr. Assiamah defended his wife’s conduct, insisting that the money collected from congregants was given voluntarily as part of routine church offerings—not under duress or deception.

“Don’t church members pay tithe and offering?” he asked. “There is no church that doesn’t accept money. These are some of the cons of doing God’s work. Physically, it’s difficult, but we look up to God.”

Nana Agradaa was convicted on multiple counts of defrauding by false pretence and charlatanic advertisement after promising financial miracles in exchange for monetary contributions. However, Mr. Assiamah maintains that her intentions were misrepresented in court and that no coercion was involved.

He stressed that his wife merely exercised her role as a spiritual leader and that her followers willingly contributed to her ministry. According to him, the ruling failed to appreciate the spiritual context of such contributions and instead treated them as fraudulent acts.

As Agradaa begins her 15-year prison sentence, her husband’s comments add to growing debate over the intersection of faith, financial giving, and legal accountability in Ghana’s religious landscape.