By P. K. Yankey, GNA
Miegyena (W/R), October 16, GNA – Nana Blay Miezah, the 2024 Parliamentary Candidate for the Convention People’s Party (CPP) in the Jomoro constituency, has been initiated as the traditional priest of Miegyena, a farming community near Beyin in the Jomoro Municipality of the Western Region.
The initiation ceremony, which took place at his ancestral and traditional home at Miegyena, brought together, traditional chief priests and priestesses from far and near, traditional rulers and members of the inky fraternity to witness the occasion.
Komenle Adjobah, a Chief traditional priestess from Tikobo No.1 who performed the initiation rites, charged Nana Blay Miezah to be steadfast in the continuation of the spiritual and traditional healing exercise bequeathed to him by his ancestors, to save lives and glorify God.
In an interview with the media, Nana Blay Miezah who is also a Seer and a Spiritualist, said he had the inspiration to perpetuate the ancestral works of divination and herbal treatment, which had saved many lives in time past.
He eulogised the works of his ancestors from Nana Armah Kofi to Nana Adiah, Nana Adwumavule and others who played the pioneering role of divination by the spirit powers through the supreme being, to bring physical and spiritual healing to sick and traumatised people in the area.
He said an inscription embossed in the center of the compound where he operated, “Everything by The Gods” by his ancestors in 1960, spoke volumes of the efficacy and potency of traditional spiritual powers.
The spiritual seer reminded Ghanaians that “every nation had her own God that it worships” adding that “Ghana’s own way of worshipping God was rooted in ancient tradition and culture.”
“Even Great Britain worshipped their god, Britannia who led them to nearly rule the entire world.”
Nana Blay Miezah stated that before the white man brought the Bible through the Christian missionaries, they came to meet people in Africa who knew the supreme being and had a way of worshiping him.
He admitted that God intervened in the affairs of people in Africa, saying “There were no doctors but our traditional priests, priestesses, herbalists, diviners who according to the Bible, were created by the supreme being, performed healing.”
He said traditionalists believed in the Omnipotent and immanent God as the source of all power, but the question remained as to how the power bequeathed to any pastor, priest, traditionalist would be used to do good or evil, to save mankind or perpetrate evil.
Nana Blay Miezah was not happy that some Ministers of the gospel condemned African traditional healers and demonise their healing prowess.
He reminded Ghanaians that if Africans worshipped the supreme being through nature, the ancestors, divinities and spirit powers whom God Almighty created, it was not demonic and not ancestral worship, but rather veneration because the deities served as intermediaries between man and the supreme being.
GNA
Edited by Justina Paaga/ Christabel Addo