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General Overseer of the Glorious Word Power Ministries, Reverend Dr Isaac Owusu Bempah, has expressed his unhappiness about media reports seeking to portray him as a dubious character. Last week, one of the pro-government tabloids, which former Attorney-General Martin Amidu prefers to call �criminally-minded and rented press�, put out a publication in which it alleged that the man of God had sold a Range Rover Sport which had not been cleared with the Customs authorities to Akwasi Addai of Odike Ventures fame. In a statement denying the publication, he noted, �I wish to say that if the said Range Rover Sport vehicle with registration No. GW 7070 Y was completely sold to the said Akwasi Addai alias Odike in 2009, as alleged, then it defies common logic and sound reasoning for Odike to have held unto the car for the past 4 to 5 years without demanding title documents to the car from me or taking an action to recover same�� Out of the amount of $50,000 that the vehicle was offered for sale, Rev. Owusu Bempah said, Odike, flagbearer of the United Front Party (UFP) and a Kumasi-based shoe seller, only paid $44,000, leaving an outstanding balance of $6,000 which Rev Owusu-Bempah claimed he had still not paid. On the vehicle not having Customs clearance, he noted, �I personally furnished Odike with the originals of documents covering the vehicle including clearance from Customs for his own search and he himself reported back to me that the three national institutions charged with vehicle registration in Ghana have confirmed that there were no lapses whatsoever with the documents on the vehicle.� The General Overseer of the Glorious Word Power Ministries said, �The suggestion that the vehicle was bought without a check from these three national institutions looks like the game plan of a clown because Odike was furnished with the originals of these documents to enable him to conduct a search before the transaction was concluded and he came back very satisfied and subsequently made various installment payments for the vehicle to the tune of $44,000.� He expressed surprise at the alleged seizure of the vehicle in question since he engaged the services of a Customs and Police officers to do the registration for him, indicating that �the involvement of these two security officers, of which one has travelled outside the country on national assignment, explains the seeming delay by the police headquarters in concluding investigations into the matter�. �Odike describing me as a 419 operative in the publication should only point to the depth of the critical mindedness of a man who has offered himself to serve as the President of the Republic of Ghana,� he added. He thus asked the general public to disregard the accusations against him and treat them with the contempt they deserved.