Family of a young woman is in shock because
their 19-year-old daughter, who disappeared
for a week in January this year, returned and
began vomiting money, broken bottles, nails,
an egg and pins.
19-year-old Rebecca Ankobea, who is
currently living on the premises of the
Building Faith Ministry International (BFMI),
has so far vomited close to GH¢50 in GH$5
and GH¢5 denominations, as well as coins in
50Gp and 20Gp denominations.
Although Rebecca had been living on the
church premises at Lapaz in Accra for more
than a month, it was not until last Friday that
she allegedly began vomiting the items.
When the Daily Graphic visited the church
yesterday, Rebecca, who was wearing a
brown long-sleeved dress, and spotting a
scruffy hair, was lying on a mattress in the
church auditorium.
To prove that the story was not a fabrication,
the church made available a number of
videos showing her vomiting some of the
items.
In one video, she vomited nails; in another
she threw up broken bottles, while in yet
another there was a folded GH¢ note.
In several of the videos, she could be seen
wincing in pain and agony, crawling on the
floor, suffering a coughing fit before
vomiting some of the items.
Family member speaks
Her family members pointed accusing fingers
at unknown kidnappers or 'sakawa' ritualists
who, they believed, had kidnapped her at
Kasoa in the Central Region and attempted to
use her for rituals but failed.
Speaking to the Daily Graphic, Ms Tina
Ankobea, Rebecca's aunt, said, "The things
she is vomiting are quite scary. I have never
seen anything like that before. We went to
several places to look for her. We thank God
that she is alive.''
The ordeal
Narrating what she claimed to be her ordeal
to the Daily Graphic, Rebecca said on the day
of her kidnap, she had been sent to the
Kasoa Market by her aunt to buy a mortar
and a pestle.
"I picked a trotro by the roadside when I was
returning home. On the way, I told the driver
I would alight at Just Love Bus Stop.
Immediately a lady sitting beside me used
her elbow to hit me in the face, before using
a handkerchief to coyer my face. I didn't
know when I lost consciousness.
"When I regained consciousness, I was in the
bush, with my hands and legs bound
together. A man came and ordered that they
should untie me and kill me. They stabbed
me a number of times but nothing
happened," she said.
She said when the man realised that nothing
was happening, he ordered his colleagues to
send her away.
"They hit me in the face on countless
occasions and gave me something to drink
before dumping me somewhere. When I
regained consciousness again, my thighs were
swollen and I was in pain," she said.
Interestingly, there was no major marks on
her, except for a small scar on her thigh.
She, however, produced a tattered blouse
and a pair of trousers that were severely torn
on the chest and thighs.
She said she later managed to crawl to the
roadside where a Good Samaritan who found
her in a wretched state asked about what had
happened to her.
"The man gave me his overcoat, GH¢2 and
then put me in a taxi heading to Kasoa. The
taxi driver took me home when he saw the
state in which I was. When I got home, I
couldn't talk. My parents then brought me to
the church," she added.
She said anytime she wanted to vomit, she
could feel aches in her stomach, with
something pinching her in the stomach.
"I still have nightmares of what happened
when I sleep. I see them chasing me," she
added, with a serious look on her face.
Pastor speaks
The Head Pastor of the BFMI, Pastor Simon
Narh, said when Rebecca's aunt brought her
to the church, she could not talk.
He said it was during one of the church's
deliverance services that he had a revelation
there were many things deposited in her.
"Last Wednesday I had a revelation that I
should give her anointing oil to drink. So I
bought one, prayed over it and gave it to her
to drink. Two days later, she began vomiting
these items," he said.
The pastor claimed that since Rebecca could
not be killed, the intentions of her assailants
were to give her something that would either
kill her or make her mad.
She advised the public to be extremely
careful about the kind of vehicles they
boarded, since "there are evildoers who are
after blood for their rituals and other evil
deeds".
