An accountant of Tabernacle Believers Worship Centre (TBWC), Armstrong has reportedly committed suicide in Gyara Zongo in Medie a town near Nsawam.
According to a source, the accountant has been with the church for the past eight 8 years until he was found hanging from a tree in the late hours of Sunday at the back of his house. The of the deceased was found hanging by one Enoch Agana who is also a member of the church. Enoch, according to the source’s narratives, had gone to the house to deliver the youth’s weekly finance to the deceased church accountant so he could add to his Sunday-account reports, on the state of the church’s financial affairs.
Enoch upon arriving at the Accountant’s house, shouted the name of the deceased but there was no response. Enoch waited for six minutes and still did not get any response so he decided to go to the backyard of the house to ease himself. That was when he saw the hanging body of the 51-year old Church Accountant.
Enoch called for help and together with others was able to take the almost lifeless body of Mr Armstrong to the Medie Hospital for emergency care. He was confirmed dead at the Medie hospital after he was admitted to the emergency theatre of the hospital.
Although a postmortem hasn’t been conducted yet, Enoch and and some church members have confirmed that the man’s death was because of a missing 12,000cedis which he couldn’t account for in his end-year financial review.
They said Mr Armstrong during his end of year financial review on 27 June this year, could not account for a missing 12,000 cedis which was nowhere to be found after he read his financial report to the church.
After a church audit report was conducted on the church’s bank accounts, it was revealed that the 12,000cedis was missing because it was never deposited into the church’s bank account.
The auditors further stated that the accountant Mr Armstrong, may have either deducted the actual monies that were supposed to go into the church’s bank account or had misplaced it.
This called for his resignation from some of the church members while others blamed it on his old age.
The church leaders were yet to reach a conclusion on what to do when the news of Mr Armstrong’s death was announced last night.
He left behind a wife and two children.
