Terminator 1
The Resurrection of the PNDC Terminator
There is a ghost on the Accra-Takoradi road that the Republic has tried to bury. His name was Pastor Akwasi Amoako.
He was the firebrand founder of Resurrection Power Ministry. In an era of the Culture of Silence, he spoke. He critiqued the PNDC. He was fearless. He carried a Spiritual Fire that threatened the hyenas of the day.
In the PNDC’s Ghana, speaking was a terminal illness. It was an abomination against the regime. Back then, only Silence could guarantee you to see another day
On a stretch of the Takoradi highway, an army vehicle “encountered” Amoako’s car. The Tagoe Sisters were in that vehicle. They survived by the grace of God. Pastor Amoako did not.
The street called it an accident. The PNDC called it a “resolution.” Elimination by hit and run. It was a state-sponsored murder.
In 2003, at the National Reconciliation Commission, the truth broke cover. Eric Gyimah – a contractor, a brother, a witness – sat under oath. He did not offer a rumour. He delivered a confession that froze the marrow of the moral chapter of our Republic.
He testified that Dr. Lawrence Tetteh and another pastor had admitted the unthinkable. They were the PNDC’s functional assets. Their mission? The elimination of Prophet Akwasi Amoako.
The Commission recorded it. The ink dried. The state has since stayed silent. And the “Evangelist” kept preaching. Pontificating.
The Moral Masquerade
Fast forward to the present. Watch the transformation.
The man named in the NRC records as a PNDC “Terminator” is now the nation’s “Moral Compass.” Fully in cassock.
He stood before the cameras, cloaked in the heavy embroidery of righteousness, demanding the President sign the Anti-LGBTQ+ Bill. He continues to make noise, even under the ban on “Drumming and Noise Making” in Accra, about “morality.” He threatened divine fire on Akufo-Addo.
He was bold enough to organise a press against Akufo-Addo’s non-assent to the Anti-LGBTQ+ Bill. He pointed a finger at the Jubilee House with the same hand that was allegedly stained by the blood of a fellow clergyman.
But Christians cheer him. The politicians bow. The media provides him platform.
Why?
Because the Republic has collective amnesia. A Vulture Republic.
Because nobody asks him why he never sued for defamation when his name was mentioned in the murder account at the NRC.
Because nobody asks him to reconcile the Hired Killer of 1990 with the Holy Man of 2026.
He did not clear his name. You cannot scrub a forensic record with a Sunday sermon.
The Rebranded Terror
Get this into your head. The PNDC did not vanish into history. It simply changed its wardrobe to NDC.
It took its foot soldiers, gave them collars, and sat them in the front pews. Today, the NDC courts him. The Jubilee House fears him. The same machinery that allegedly deployed him to kill a pastor now uses him to bark at our Republic.
They did not just kill Akwasi Amoako. They stole his pulpit and gave it to his alleged assassin. What a moral tragedy in a Republic of Stories.
This Republic is still sleeping. But the NRC records are wide awake. The collar is a costume. Lawrence Tetteh’s history is a horror story.
Remember the name. Remember the road. Remember it happened in the culture of silence.
Remember Pastor Akwasi Amoako did not die in a motor traffic accident. He was terminated by the PNDC’s agent.
Still remember: Rev. Dr. Lawrence Tetteh was never a man of God until after Pastor Akwasi Amoako died.
J. A. Sarbah
