Lawyer for Rev. Anthony Kwadwo Boakye, Alexander K. K. Abban, has given detailed account of the life of the founder of the Resurrection Power New Generation Church, for the past one and half years leading to his death.
The lawyer, in a letter copied to Newstitbits.com, formally announced to the pastors, church leaders and the entire membership about the demise of their leader.
The letter confirmed that Rev. Anthony Kwadwo Boakye died on Tuesday at 2:00am at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital.
“It is with a heavy heart and deep sorrow but in the abiding hope of the resurrection that I formally announce to you the sudden demise of Rev. Dr. Anthony Kwadwo Boakye, the founder and general overseer of the Resurrection Power New Generation Church.
“Our head pastor joined the heavenly choirs at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra at about 2:00 am on Tuesday the 21st day of February 2023.”
The counsel in the letter recalled that the popular pastor was “struck down by stroke in the early hours of Saturday 23, October 2021”.
He was initially rushed to a private medical facility at Dansoman to see his personal doctor.
He was subsequently taken on admission to the Healthlink Medical Centre at East Legon for further medical attention.
Lawyer Abban noted that the pastor’s conditions improved tremendously and after about three months, he was discharged and directed to undergo gradual physiotherapy.
“He applied himself dutifully to that exercise and saw marked improvement in his general wellbeing and, more importantly, in the movement of left hand which was most greatly affected by the disease,” his counsel recalled.
Following this impressive improvement in his health conditions, he said, Rev. Boakye resumed his pastoral activities by giving virtual homilies from his base at an undisclosed location on Sundays until he physically appeared in church on New Year’s Eve to lead in the church service himself.
Thereafter, he continued with his physiotherapeutic exercise and had regular audiences with some selected leaders of the church, family members and his legal counsel.
However, on 31st January 2023, his family was compelled to take him back to the hospital when he complained of sharp pains in his left leg.
“It was detected that blood circulation to his left leg was not the best and that there was the need to fly him out of the country to seek further medical care and, if necessary, undergo a surgical operation.
“Preparations were underway to make that journey when he was suddenly taken ill and was rushed to the Cardiothoracic Centre at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital.
“Unfortunately, he gave up the ghost around 2:00 am on Tuesday, 21st February 2023,” the statement by the lawyer recounted.
“We entreat all members of the church and the general public to keep him in your prayers for God to grant him peaceful repose in the bosom of Abraham, our father in faith. Funeral arrangements will be communicated to the public in due course,” lawyer Alexander K. K. Abban said.
Rev. Anthony Kwadwo Boakye has thousands of church members and noted for providing free bus services for members from various parts of Accra and nearby regions for church activities.
Recently, he had serious issues with the wife, coupled with some disagreements with the church leadership, the wife who used to be the second in command broke away to form her own church after .
Some consider Rev. Kwadwo Boakye as a controversial man for the curses he sometimes rain on people who oppose his views.