The quarrel between gospel musician Bishop Michael Osei Bonsu and songwriter Pastor Love Hammond which resulted in a death threat, has turned ugly with the accordion musician, who is seriously sick, accusing the latter as the cause of his ailment.

Bishop Osei Bonsu claimed that Pastor Love had earlier on threatened to make him bleed to death and even went further to give him a specific date to be plagued with a sickness following the Bishop’s failure to pay an agreed sum of money to the Pastor concerning a music business the two transacted.

According to Bishop Osei Bonsu, he was attacked by that sickness at the exact date given to him by the Pastor with blood oozing from his nose.

When Graphic Showbiz visited the Bishop at his Sakumono residence, he looked so sick that he could not walk without the assistance of others and he could not talk well when being interviewed.

He said he had been to the hospital but the sickness is yet to be diagnosed. He had been asked to report back this week.
“Many Pastors have advised Pastor Love to come and visit me but he has declined. The words of his own mouth has caused this present state of mine and he does not care.”

It would be recalled that in the September 28-October 4 edition of the Graphic Showbiz, a story was carried about Bishop Osei Bonsu of Back to God Mission International who said, in June this year, that Pastor Love, Overseer of Life Power Miracle Church, for the pastor to write seven songs for him for an agreed sum of ¢70 million cedis to be paid by August 31.

Unfortunately for the Bishop, things did not go the way he had anticipated. He explained that he did not get a producer to undertake the recordings of the songs into an album titled Ma No Mmra Mu until sometime in August.

Again the Producer could pay Bishop Bonsu only ¢120 million instead of the original ¢300 million the Bishop had expected.

Bishop Osei Bonsu said he gave Pastor Love ¢40 million out of the ¢120 million, a new arrangement the Pastor did not take kindly to since the amount agreed on initially was ¢70 million .

However, Bishop Osei Bonsu said as the performer, he was also not prepared to take ¢50 million and give ¢70million to the writer of the music.

According to the Bishop, days after the discussion, Pastor Love sent him a text message on his phone saying “U have refused to pick my calls and I think U want to see the bad side of me, so get ready for it. Its either you pay me the money or I will show U my bad side”.

According to the Bishop, Pastor Love later came to his office and threatened him saying: “What is today’s date? Mark my words and record it for your children.

I will kill you if you don’t kill me. You will not sing again because I will make sure to kill you if you don’t give me my money.”

The Bishop said he suspects Pastor Love to be the cause of his sickness because of those threats, since the Bible has said that what comes out of one’s mouth shall surely come to pass.

“Though I believe this sickness is spiritual as many prophets have confirmed, I don’t think Love has taken me to a juju man and even if he has, that juju power can never have any effect on my life since I serve an all-powerful God.” said the Bishop.

Narrating his side of the story to Showbiz, Pastor Love Hammond said that the Bishop informed him in July he was developing a boil in his head and thinks he would die.

The Pastor said he advised him not to think that way but should go to the hospital for treatment. According to him, the Bishop took his advice for granted and is now reaping the consequences.

“I don’t know anything about his sickness and I have neither taken him to any spiritualist nor prayed against him for a single day.

I am a man of God and I have no evil motive to do such a thing.” he said. Pastor Love said that he was surprised that a devout man of God like Bishop Osei Bonsu would entertain the fear of being affected by a curse or the power of juju when he should have exercised faith in God.

“The Bible says that a curse can never hurt a person unless he deserves it and if the Bishop says he is suffering because of a curse or juju rituals done by me aginst him then I doubt his credibility as a servant of the most high God.”

Meanwhile, there was a man of God with Bishop Osei Bonsu called Prophet Saviour Dewonu. Overseer of the Living House Charismatic Chapel at Koforidua who said he had evidence to prove that Pastor Love Hammond has taken Bishop Michael Osei Bonsu to a “juju man” to kill him.

“ I had a vision that there were two men with a woman and one of the men was standing in the middle holding a lot of cowries and had LOVE written on his forehead while the rest also held whisks and were chanting”. He said.

“God reveals to redeem, Bishop is alive now because of our fasting and prayers and I am going to stay with him till he gets well”. he added.

In reaction to the Prophet’s vision, Pastor Love said the Prophet was a liar because there is no where in the Bible from Genesis to Revelation that a person’s name was written on his forehead. “He is a false Prophet, an agent of the devil and does not know God”.