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The Ashanti Regional Police have withdrawn with immediate effect police escort for the founder of the Ebenezer Miracle Worship Centre. Rev. Ebenezer Adaakwa Yiadom, preacher and owner of Kumasi-based Radio Mercury has for some time now been enjoying the luxury of police escort because he claimed his life was under threat by a rival pastor. A former Ashanti Regional Police Commander agreed to offer the pastor an escort after he reported that a pastor friend had issued threats on his live. But Ashanti Regional Police Commander, DCOP Patrick Timbilla, says Rev. Yiadom does not deserve a police escort. DCOP Timbilla told Joy News his intelligence after assuming his new position in the Ashanti Region has established that Rev. Yiadom does not deserve a police escort. �My general issue in Kumasi is to fight general crime, especially violent ones, and I need men on the ground to do that for everybody.� DCOP Timbilla said. The police boss said Rev Yiadom may only have to �tread cautiously� and call the police in the event of a difficulty. DCOP Timbilla also hinted that he is yet to be �convinced� that Rev. Yiadom indeed needs a police escort over what the police boss says are alleged �personality clash� between the preacher and his colleague.