In a recently resurfaced old video, the Founder and General Overseer of Alive Chapel International, Elisha Salifu Amoako, shared his thoughts on crime and punishment.

According to him, a perpetrator of a crime must be dealt with by the law through imprisonment.

“Every day the system sentences people. If someone kills my son with a gun, it is not me; the system must deal with the person. It is the law; the person has to go to prison,” he said.

He further explained that prison should not be seen as a place of condemnation but rather as a place of reform, adding that every person, regardless of their current status, is a potential prisoner.

“Prison shouldn’t be a place of condemnation; it should be a place of reform. All of us are potential prisoners. Every human being on this earth is a potential prisoner; you can go there. The law hasn’t caught up with you, so you think you are free. Joseph went to prison; many great people went to prison. But God didn’t send them to prison as punishment, to reduce and to destroy them.

“Many people have become pastors after they served their jail term; they went to change. He or she was very disobedient when they had not tasted prison. But God sent them to prison to reform them and bring them back to society,” Salifu Amoako added.

Background:

The resurfacing of the video stems from an accident involving the son of Salifu Amoako that claimed the lives of two young girls.

The incident occurred when 16-year-old Elrad Salifu Amoako, son of Bishop Salifu Amoako, lost control of a Jaguar SUV (GN 7801-20) and collided with a 4×4 Acura vehicle (GR 2542-23).

The collision caused both vehicles to catch fire, resulting in two girls, Justine Agbenu and Maame Dwomoh, who were in the Acura, being burned beyond recognition.

Elrad Salifu Amoako went into coma and was hospitalised.

Watch the resurfaced video below:

OLD VIDEO:
What Bishop Salifu Amoako said about Ghana prisons pic.twitter.com/MUkACtaQXs

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