Bishop Charles Agyinasare has bemoaned the plundering of state funds by Ghanaian politicians whose standards of living shoot through the roof overnight.
“Politicians, stop stealing the people’s money for yourselves,” he told his congregation on Sunday, 24 September, explaining that: “And this one I didn’t say it. Unfortunately for us in Ghana, the politicians are telling us that they are thieves. Every change of government, the politicians tell us the other politicians [their predecessors] were stealing so in our minds, the politicians are telling us they are thieves.”
“Now if it is so, Mr Politician, don’t steal our money, keep our money. So, if we desire righteousness, we must have clean hands,” Bishop Agyinasare admonished.
He wondered how “a politician from a village” who may have been “a pupil teacher or a trained teacher, suddenly becomes an MP and the next time he is going to the village, he is in a four-wheel drive and in the next four years he has built three houses”.
“Where did you get the money from? The money you are being paid in Parliament is not enough to get three, four houses in that place,” he added.
He said there was the need for Christians who go into politics to change the narrative. “And we are saying many Christians should go into politics and as you go into politics, you want to make the difference,” he stated.
Bishop Agyinasare, however, acknowledged that certain cultural practices entrench corruption in Ghana.
“And you know, some of the greatest challenges we have, why we can’t come out of corruption – but we will come out – is that our system is such that you can’t even sanction anybody. Somebody does something wrong and then its exposed and you want to do something, the next day you’ll see the presiding bishop – and normally we do it early in the morning, 6 O’clock – yes, he has done it but temper justice with mercy. And the tempering justice with mercy we are saying that we should corner the thing, we shouldn’t deal with the thing and if the priest doesn’t come, the bishop doesn’t come, then the chief will come.
“In fact, I just learnt that in some of our paramountcies there is what we call Gyantuahene, where you offend and you go to see him to go and pacify [on your behalf], so they go and ask for mercy for you and so we are not sanctioning anybody, we don’t judge sin, we don’t punish wrongdoers and so as long as wrongdoers see that there is no punishment for wrong, wrongdoing will continue. May God help us as a people,” he complained.
Source: classfmonline.com
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Why did Kufour son got the money to own regent hotel (hotel waawaa)? What has happened to the BOST MD....5 million litres of intentional contamination of fuel and sold very cheap? Ofori Atta's inside trading i the issuance of the 2.5 million bond to his business partner.....do you know how much millions will be made on the 19% interest rate? so many more coruption activities within 5 months? npp are ***barred word***....
ASK YOUR FRIENDS THE NDC POLITICIANS THAT QUESTION. AND IF POSSIBLE MENTION NAMES.HOW CAN NOBODY(S)WITHOUT EVEN WORKING EXPERIENCE COULD IN A MATTER OF EIGHT YEARS BUILT MANSIONS, OWNED NUMBER OF FILLING STATIONS AND COULD PUT SEVERAL MILLIONS OF CEDIS IN THEIR VEHICLES(V8 0F COURSE) FOR ***barred word*** TO STEAL THEM.
BISHOP YOU ARE NOW TALKING? WHEN YOU WERE GIVEN V8 BY THIS SAME POLITICIANS,YOU SAID THEY HAVE DONE WELL SO YOU GAVE MAHAMA 70% NOW THAT YOU HAVE SEEN THE LIGHT AFTER CHANGE OF GOVERNMENT.YOU WERE DEFENDING MAHAMA GOVERNMENT WHEN WE SAID THEY ARE CORRUPT.
NPP suspicion that corruption was rampant under the NDC administration has been found to be true. Evidence we have so far indicates that what we thought was the level of corruption at the time was too small. We have now seen colossal evidence of corruption that will blow your mind. People stole state money with impunity. Proceeds of corruption in the country exceed GH4 billion annually, whilst free SHS’ cost for three years is about GH3 billion. If the corruption canker is stopped, Ghana can surely get enough money to sponsor the free Senior High School (SHS) policy.Everything must be done to uproot the deadly menace from the society to help revive the economy. Through new pragmatic policies by the President Akufo-Addo administration corruption would be defeated once-and-for-all.
I'm very surprised this Holy Man of God, could not advise his best friend John Mahama to stop stealing our money for himself and his family. Change is indeed good. It is not too late. Please Reverend, kindly ask Mahama and his family to return the money they have stolen from poor Ghanaians.
Pastor what about the meat marketing board turn into a big church. You are a beneficially right. Since when oohhh
But they come for prayers from you man. and you bless them to steal.
The pastors are worse and it is because they are worse that is the so call politician still to come and take positions in their churches.
Where have you been all this while, Mr. Pastor? This is hypocrisy at its best. We know of some of your colleague pastors who comes over to Europe and brags about the fact that he knows no fuel shortage in Ghana cause he’s allocated special consignment when fuel was hard to come by. We know all the NDC pastors in the country so do not pretend to be holier than though
Truthfully Most Christian are WORSE! They hide under the theme we are BLESSED & steal beyond IMAGINATION. At the appointed time God will EXPOSE all those HYPOCRITE Christians.& the others in other churches.