The plaintiff, Josephine Ganyoame, 24-year-old woman, has filed a suit in court accusing Rev Fr Yves-Lucien Evaga Njana, a Cameroonian Catholic priest and diplomat based in Ghana, of neglecting responsibility towards a six month-old child he allegedly fathered.
In the suit filed on April 7, the plaintiff is seeking a declaration that the respondent’s irresponsibility breaches the rights of the child to a name, basic necessities of life, welfare and social protection.
She is further praying the court to direct the Reverend Father to subject himself to a paternity test to determine the father of the baby, among other reliefs.
The Weekend Finder newspaper reports Friday that when it contacted the Rev Father Yves-Lucien Evaga Njana, he admitted having had sexual relationship with the lady but denied being the father of the child.
He claimed that he used a condom each time they had sex and could therefore not have impregnated the lady.
He indicated that all efforts to get the girl to go for a paternity test have proven futile.
Joshepine Ganyoname says she rejected the test because she wanted it ordered by a court so the result cannot be altered.
Josephine has revealed she met Rev Father Njana one night in October 2014 when she was nearly knocked down by a car driven by the reverend minister.
The priest, who is also the Country’s Director of the Ghana branch of the Biblical Centre for Africa and Madagascar (BICAM), said the lady in question, Josephine Gannyoame, was just maligning and blackmailing him.
He said Josephine and a man she claimed was her uncle had already collected an amount of GHC 20,000 from him as a result of the supposed pregnancy.
Josephine Ganyoame claimed she had sexual affairs with the Catholic Priest at his residence on three occasions.
After the sexual encounters resulted in pregnancy, she said the priest told her to “flush it out”.
“I said what? I’m not ready to kill,” she told Joy Fm.
She claimed that Father Yves-Lucien to her to the Obaatampa Women Hospital at East Legon for an abortion but she refused to terminate the pregnancy.
According to her, Father Yves-Lucien thereafter gave her an amount of GHC 20, 000 for her upkeep, disclosing that she used GHC 9, 600 to rent a single room self-contained apartment at East Legon at GHC 200 per month for three years, with the rest of the money going into her upkeep and an amount of GHC6, 000 going into the acquisition of a plot land at Afienya.
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