By Patrick Ofoe Nudzi
Accra, Nov.11, GNA – Rt Rev Dr Abraham Opare Kwakye, Moderator of the General Assembly, Presbyterian Church of Ghana, has urged politicians, particularly those in government to fight corruption holistically and not pick and choose for convenience.
He said a ruling government’s focus on fighting the canker should not only be on the opposition party but government appointees and officials.
“There’s corruption in the country but we are only worried if the people who are corrupt are of the opposite party. When we become the ruling government, we see no wrong with the corrupt practices of our brothers and sisters,” he said.
The Moderator said this in a sermon at the investiture of Rev Prof Philip Tetteh Laryea as the third Rector for the Akrofi-Christaller Institute (ACI) of Theology, Mission and Culture.
His sermon which was taken from Hebrews 6: 1-3 and dwelt on calling Ghanaians to ‘mature’ and live by the tenets of Jesus Christ urged the Christian population to eschew indiscipline and ‘elementary stages’ of life and not to be baby Christians and infants in the Lord.
Rt Rev Dr Opare Kwakye said leaving the elementary things and going on to maturity meant selfless actions in nation building, having a sense of humanness, national interest and the greater good of all the people.
He said unfortunately, that had not been the case, adding that “when we are in opposition, we see the corruption in the ruling government but when we become the ruling government we don’t see anything wrong with the various scandals of corruption.”
“What beats my imagination even more is how people, ordinary Ghanaians who do not benefit from the corruption involving people in high places, will march to the police station to rescue people who are corrupt and arrested by the police,” he said.
The Moderator said: “We go there to defend them mostly when we do not benefit and I sometimes wonder what’s going on. There must be something, absolutely something wrong with us.”
He said Ghana could not compare herself to countries like America, Germany and others if the citizens were not allowing the systems work and build the country
Rev Prof Philip Tetteh Laryea, newly appointed Rector, Akrofi-Christaller Institute of Theology, Mission and Culture, in an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA), called on the political leaders to conduct themselves well to protect the stability of the country.
“We have come a very long way since 1992 and we cannot afford to go back. We want to plead with them to hold and guard the peace we have. We prayer for political stability because without it nothing goes on,” he said.
Rev Dr Tetteh Laryea urged the masses to protect the peace and be able to judge in-between the lines when politicians came telling all sorts of stories and giving juicy offers now, during and after the December 7 polls.
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