Gospel musician Jemima Annor Yeboah, popularly known as Jayana, is blaming the Christ Apostolic Church for the death of her father, Apostle Dr Augustine Annor Yeboah.
The late apostle, who served as General Secretary and later Chairman of the Christ Apostolic Church for many years, was controversially voted out in an election that led to his departure from the church.
Speaking in an emotional interview with MzGee on ‘Just Being Us’, Jayana revealed that her father’s health began to deteriorate following what she described as a painful and humiliating exit from the church.
Although Apostle Annor Yeboah later founded the Christian Praise International Centre (CPIC), Jayana said he never recovered from the betrayal and treatment he received from the church he had served faithfully.
“I would say that I was very bitter. A secretary of a church that had nothing, becoming a chairman, and then all of a sudden, it’s like you’ve been stripped of everything. He was crying, his eyes were swollen. They took him away from us,” she recounted, breaking into tears.
Jayana also revealed that the loss of her father deeply affected her personal life. Her marriage, she said, collapsed just a year after his passing.
Apostle Dr Augustine Annor Yeboah, a renowned preacher and one of Ghana’s most recognisable Christian figures on television, passed away on June 26, 2014, at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital. He was laid to rest on August 23, 2014.
Ten years on, his daughter, once a contestant on Stars of the Future and now an established gospel artist, shares her family’s struggles in a heartfelt interview.
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