Ghanaian gospel musician, Jacklin Sarfo Gyamfua also known as Ohemaa Jacky, has been remanded by an Accra Circuit court for allegedly defrauding a trader of 150,000 Ghana Cedis under the pretext of securing the trader with an Italian passport and resident identity cards.
According to state prosecutors, the ‘Hakuna Matata’ singer who doubles as a blogger, also forged two Italian passports for the trader and her infant daughter.
Ohemaa Jacky was hit with two counts of defrauding by false pretense and forgery when she appeared before the court presided over by Ms. Evelyn Asamoah.
She has, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges and has since been remanded to police custody to re-appear on September 16 this year.
Prosecutor’s Facts
The facts as presented by the prosecutor, Inspector Frederick Sarpong, were that, in February this year, the complainant and a witness in the case spotted the musician running adverts on social media platforms purporting to be securing traveling passports and resident identity cards of every country within the European Union (E.U) at a fee.
The prosecutor said the trader, who is the complainant was interested in traveling to Italy and contacted Ohemaa Jacky through her Facebook advertisement.
He said Ohemaa Jacky promised to secure two Italian passports and two Italian resident identity cards for the complainant and her infant daughter at a fee of 24,000 Euros.
The accused, according to the Insp. Sarpong, further gave her Bank account number bearing the name of one Afuah Serwaa Dwamena and another Bank account bearing the name of Lord Men’s Enterprise.
He said Ohemaa Jacky then requested the complainant to pay the demanded fee of 24,000 Euros into any of the above-mentioned accounts.
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The complainant accordingly deposited various sums amounting to 21,000 Euros into the accounts provided by the accused.
Insp. Sarpong further told the court that the musician later provided two forged Italian Passports and two forged Italian Resident Identity Cards for the complainant and her infant daughter.
On March 30, 2021, the prosecutor said the complainant presented the Italian passports at the Kotoka International Airport to travel outside the country and was apprehended on the basis that the passports presented were fake.
The Prosecutor said a complaint was lodged to the Police leading to the gospel musician’s arrest on September 8.
Insp Sarpong said a search conducted in the house of Ohemaa Jacky revealed the two forged Italian passports and the forged Italian resident identity cards.
He added that investigations were ongoing to ascertain the authenticity of the passports and the resident identity cards.
However, the accused and her husband have issued stern verbal warnings to both the complainant and the principal witness in the case to stay off the case else they risk being dealt with.
Well, this is not the first time Jacky has been in the news over controversial issues. It can be recalled that back in 2019, a lady identified as Afia Linking, accused Ohemaa Jacky of sleeping with numerous men in Turkey.
According to Afia, when she’s going to meet Satan and she meets gospel musician Ohemaa Jacky on the way, she will return because she’s the “devil herself”.
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