A number of men claiming to have their funds locked up in businesses allegedly owned by Pastor Kelvin Kwesi Kobiri, founder and leader of the Zoe Outreach Embassy, on Monday heckled him violently at Tarkwa in the Western region.

Pastor Kobiri had arrived at the premises of the Tarkwa Circuit Court to respond to a suit against him for allegedly issuing three dud cheques.

The court could not sit because the judge was reported to be on vacation. However, word had quickly spread around that Pastor Kobiri was in town.

He was accosted immediately he drove his white Range Rover into the courtyard, with the young men initially lunging vengeful hands towards him and demanding he pays them their money or he was going nowhere.

Matters came to a head however, when he parked the car. Before he could step out of the car, a young man angrily shoved him, and was soon joined by others who would not listen to any of his comments nor the pleas of others who asked that no one assaults him.

They shoved him about violently, while a lady companion was also pushed off when she tried to intervene. Another man with him who was using his phone to record proceedings had the phone hit from his hands onto the ground.

It took the intervention of armed policemen from the Tarkwa Divisional Police Command to whisk him away and to place him in custody for his own safety.

In June this year, some members of the Zoe Outreach Embassy stormed the church premises to momentarily disrupt ongoing service, claiming that their funds had been locked up in two businesses Pastor Kobiri encouraged them to invest in, alleging also that he owned those businesses – EL Real Estates and Tikowrie Capital.

Source: Graphic.com.gh