Empress Gifty Sues Agradaa For ¢200bn

Celebrated gospel musician and television host, Empress Gifty Oppong Adorye, also known as Empress Gifty, has filed a GH¢20 million (200bn old cedis) law suit against controversial evangelist and social media personality, Patricia Aseidua, popularly known as Agradaa (Thunder) and Evangelist Mama Pat.

The suit, filed at the High Court in Accra on Tuesday, May 20, 2025 at approximately 2:54 p.m. by Empress Gifty’s legal representative, Sam Kyere Esq. of Ossei Aiddoh Akpokavie Kyere & Co, seeks four main reliefs.

Chief among them is a claim for GH¢20 million in damages for defamatory statements allegedly made by Agradaa, during a series of live broadcasts on social media platforms including Facebook, TikTok and YouTube.

According to court documents, Empress Gifty is also requesting a perpetual injunction to restrain the defendant and her associates from making further defamatory remarks.

She additionally seeks an order directing Agradaa to take down all existing videos and audio recordings containing the offending statements and a reimbursement for legal costs, including Attorney fees.

Empress Gifty, who is the host of UTV’s widely watched United Showbiz and U-Cook Show, asserts in her suit that she is an internationally acclaimed gospel musician, most recently winning Best Traditional Gospel Song at the 2025 Telecel Ghana Music Awards.

She is also a brand ambassador for several companies, including Dede Classic, Dede Homes and Kejeron Fabrics. Married to politician Mr. Hopeson Adorye, she is also a mother of four.

The defendant, Patricia Aseidua, is a former fetish priestess-turned evangelist and head of the Heavens Way Church at Weija, Accra. Agradaa is a well-known media figure with a substantial social media following.

Empress Gifty alleges that the defamatory remarks stemmed from a long-standing tension involving Agradaa and her husband.

On May 13, 2025 Agradaa reportedly launched a scathing verbal attack during a livestream, targeting Mr. Hopeson Adorye and subsequently making slanderous and demeaning remarks about the Plaintiff in Twi, which, when translated to English, allegedly impugned her character and reputation.

The Plaintiff states that some of slanderous remarks in the suit has affected her hard won reputation, stating “…the widespread effect of the Defendant’s words on the Plaintiff is that she has become the subject of discussion on media outlets locally and internationally, and has affected her children who are taunted and ridiculed by their mates in school.”

Some of comments allegedly run about the Plaintiff by the defendant in Twi, a local language, are “wo tuutuuni yere no mpo wo bu no,wo yere ?dwamanfo?no mpo wo bu no,nkraman newo yere da tafri wo yere twe mu di sika bre wo.”

English translation

“You even respect your promiscuous wife, you respect even that wife of yours who is a prostitute, your wife flirts with dogs, dogs lick your wife’s vagina, which is how she makes money to cater for you. You left your cheap prostitute wife that has sexual intercourse with pastors to attack me. I’m not a toy like your wife, I have not repositioned my nose like your wife, do not extend the foolish things you do to her to me. Your wife’s vagina has become a common eating bowl for some pastors.”

 

Thus, the Plaintiff is a zoophile, who flirts with dogs to earn her money to cater for her husband.

Empress Gifty is in dire need of the court’s intervention because the words were calculated to disparage Plaintiff’s standing in the music and the showbiz industries in particular and in the public view at large.

 

The plaintiff contends that the words used were “unprintable,” intended to degrade and tarnish her image in the eyes of the Ghanaian public and her fans.

 

Agradaa has eight days to respond either personally or through legal counsel. Failure to do so could result in a default judgment in favour of Empress Gifty.

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