Investigative Journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas has produced another documentary showing inmates of an orphanage forced to live under inhumane conditions.
Filming undercover, Anas and his Tiger Eye P.I team document horrendous cases of abuse, in one instance showing a man of God forcing a child in an orphanage to eat his own excreta. But this, according to the journalist, is only a tip of the cruelty Rev. Lawrence Lamina, Director of Echoing Hills Village, subjects children to at his care home.
Echoing Hills Village is a non-governmental organisation located at Madina in the Greater Accra Region. It has been receiving tremendous help from the public both local and foreign, in order to continue to care for the children who are without parents and have found themselves in the home.
However, the inmates of the orphanage, the documentary reveals, have never known peace as they allegedly suffer hell and torment daily, in the hands of the man of God. “I see them as my own children,” he was captured saying in the documentary. But Rev. Lamina is seen supervising the torture of a young boy.
“Do you want to kill me? I’ll kill you first,” the pastor fumed while the child is subdued, pressed to the ground so that he cannot protest while being subjected to degrading treatment by his caregiver cum minister of the Gospel.
The harrowing experiences of children in this orphanage where sex and sodomy are pervasive have been documented in Anas’ latest undercover work which will be premiered this Friday, June 28 on a number of television networks.
Anas in a Facebook post on Monday said: “When a man of God pulls a dagger and threatens to kill a child in his orphanage for committing a ‘crime’, he naturally courts society’s wrath and outright condemnation.”
“It is shocking to watch the video, yet it is gratifying that a place meant for the protection of children in difficult circumstances but turned into a special prison for their torture has finally been exposed,” he added.
Source: JFM/Ghana
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I hope that the video is not "outrageous" for the wrong reasons, and that it is not a misrepresentation of reality. If it turns out that this whole project is a case of malicious representation and shoddy investigative work, Anas and his team must be publicly denounced swiftly and thoroughly. I once read somewhere that Anas claims that the wider public is his key source of accountability. Now that the video is out online--and will later be broadcasted on Ghanaian tv stations later today, I call upon the public to subject the claims of the investigators in the preliminary reports released online, and the actual content of the video, to a careful and dispassionate critical examination to see whether the video actually supports the outlandish claims being made about the director of Echoing Hills Village, Ghana , and the broader claims about the way his ministries are run. (One way to go about this is that, journalists should contact the director and any other credible external sources who are connected to and aware of the ministry of Echoing Hills Village Ghana (EHVG) to provide their side of the story). So long as the claims in the video have not been confirmed to be factually and representationally correct and irreproachable, it is one's duty to hold it with polite reservation.
THIS IS TERRIBLE....ANOTHER OSU CHILDREN'S HOME, BUT THIS TIME IN MADINA....LORD HAVE MERCY.
I ALWAYS SAY THAT AFRICANS AND GHANAIANS IN PARTICULAR ARE NOT CHRISTIANS BUT HAVE USED CHRISTIANITY TO BRAIN*WASH THEIR FELLOW GHANAIANS. DR. BUSIA ONCE SAID THAT CHRISTIANITY IN AFRICA IS LIKE THIN VINEER. THE BORDER LINE BETWEEN CHRISTIANS AND ANTI-CHRISTS IS SO THIN THAT YOU CANNOT MAKE THE DIFFERENCE OUT. OUR BEHAVIOUR IS LIKE A CHAMELLION, CHANGING EVERY MOMENT. THIS CAMOUFLAGED PASTOR MUST BE HANGED FOR BADLY TREATING ORPHANS (CHILDREN WITHOUT PARENTS) THAT WAY. HE DOES NOT DESERVE TO LIVE. HE IS WORSE THAN A KIDNAPPER.
hmmmm God have mercy
Hmmm, how can a man of God do this? Anas, thank you. Continue to expose the ills of society no matter the persecution and hypocrisy of this current gov't. May Allah guide and protect you.