Former Black Stars chief drummer, Joseph Langabel, has reacted to the 15-year jail sentence handed to controversial former fetish priestess turned evangelist, Patricia Asiedua Asiamah, popularly known as Nana Agradaa.
Speaking in an exclusive interview with Ghana Weekend on Thursday, July 17, 2025, Langabel expressed his reservations about the severity of the sentence, describing it as politically motivated.
“I don’t want to be in contempt, but madam, let me say this, when someone tells you they have GHS20 million and ask you to bring GHS5 million or GHS5 to collect the GHS20 million, and you actually go and bring it, then you fooled yourself,” he said.
“You put yourself into trouble. The woman said it, but if you don’t go there, can she come to your house to collect the money? No. These are the kind of things that have led to her imprisonment, and to me, it looks like political styling. A 15year sentence for a woman over ‘sika gari’? That’s too harsh.”
Langabel further recounted his personal experience of almost falling for a similar scam. According to him, he once watched a money-doubling advertisement on television and decided to try it, only to discover it was fraudulent.
On Thursday, July 3, 2025, an Accra Circuit Court sentenced Nana Agradaa to 15 years in prison with hard labour after finding her guilty of multiple counts of charlatanic advertisement and defrauding by false pretence.
Her case has since sparked widespread public debate, with many divided over whether her victims were simply gullible or genuinely deceived.
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