The Amasaman High Court has reduced the 15-year prison sentence of incarcerated former priestess turned evangelist Patricia Asiedua, popularly known as Nana Agradaa, to 12 months following a successful appeal against the original term imposed on her in 2025.
In a ruling delivered on February 5, 2026, the High Court said that the 15-year sentence handed down by the Accra Circuit Court in July 2025 was harsh, excessive, and disproportionate to the offences for which Agradaa was convicted.
The court accordingly reduced the sentence to one year.
The revised 12-month custodial sentence takes effect from July 3, 2025, the date of her initial conviction and sentencing.
Nana Agradaa has already served a significant portion of the term and is expected to serve approximately five more months.
Nana Agradaa was originally convicted by the Accra Circuit Court on one count of charlatanic advertisement and two counts of defrauding by false pretence.
The convictions arose from a televised money-doubling scheme aired in 2022, during which she solicited money from church members under the pretext of multiplying their funds through spiritual means.
The trial court, presided over by Justice Evelyn Asamoah, had sentenced her to 15 years’ imprisonment with hard labour, with all sentences ordered to run concurrently.
Following the ruling, Nana Agradaa’s legal team, led by lawyer Richard Asare Baffour, filed an appeal challenging the sentence. The defence argued that while the court was entitled to punish the offences, the punishment imposed was excessive and not supported by the circumstances of the case.
They further contended that the trial judge exhibited bias in sentencing and failed to apply proportionality in determining the length of the prison term.
In its decision, the Amasaman High Court upheld the convictions but agreed with the defence that the 15-year sentence was disproportionate to the offences of charlatanic advertisement and defrauding by false pretence.
The court therefore exercised its appellate powers to revise the sentence downward to 12 months.
However, despite the significant reduction in her custodial sentence, Nana Agradaa still faces outstanding legal sanctions arising from a separate case.
These include a GH₵12,000 fine and a GH₵50,000 compensation order linked to the broadcast of inappropriate images of Prophet Emmanuel Appiah Fomum, popularly known as Osofo Biblical, on her television station, Thunder TV, and across social media platforms in 2021.
