Ghana, Nigeria and many countries in Africa would be empty if the United States of America decides to give free visas for just a week, Pastor Mensa Otabil has said.
The International Central Gospel Church (ICGC) founder told his congregation on Sunday, 4 March during the church’s 34th anniversary service that the number of Africans who risk their lives traversing deserts and the Mediterranean to Europe, is ample evidence that virtually all Africans would run out of the continent for greener pasture if they had the chance.
“Look at the number of our people who try to cross the Sahara Desert to go to Europe.
“And believe you me, if that way were open, Africa would be empty. It would be empty,” Dr Otabil said, adding that: “If the American Embassy today decides: this week is free visa for everybody, Ghana would be empty, Nigeria would be empty”.
“Why are we travelling? It’s not because we have a sense of adventure, because if we had a sense of adventure, we would have travelled to Mole, we would’ve gone to Kintampo, we have no sense of adventure, it’s a sense of hopelessness. It’s not adventure, it’s hopelessness. It’s a sense where you feel nothing good will come from here”.
According to Magnum, the largest flow of modern African migration funnels through Libya.
Magnum said coming from the south, migrants flee the vestiges of wars that have left entire nations in ruin. From the east, they escape a life of indefinite military servitude and violent conflict. From the west, they evade destitution and governments that arbitrarily jail whomever they please.
It said some arrive by choice, others by force. But Libya is the purgatory where most migrants prepare to face the deadliest stretch of the Mediterranean Sea.
Libya's 1,100-mile coastline, according to Magnum, has effectively become an open border without government forces to monitor who comes and who goes. Smugglers have filled the void, willing to tightly pack hundreds of migrants at a time into flimsy vessels and shuttle them to Italy.
Migrant crossings through the central Mediterranean jumped by more than four-fold after 2013. The International Organization for Migration estimates that nearly 182,000 migrants from Libya have landed in Italy since the start of last year, exacerbating a massive refugee crisis already spilling out of Syria and other parts of the Middle East.
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Poverty dirty Ghanaians with little minds and their INSULTS. Your president just came from USA on his begging trip and look at his face and stomach. Lucky to have avoided TRUMP. A ***barred word*** country Ghana which cannot produce even toothpick is now dead.
Pastor l perfectly agree with you. Listen to those ***barred word*** comments from equally ***barred word*** Ghanaians.Ghana rule by family members of Akufo Addoo is a failed state. I pray that the paid media will present Nana Addoo as Christ so that more people will be poorer.
And what is Pastor Otabil doing to make Ghana a better place. You establish a church, school and other businesses so you can take money from people. Why is your church not doing anything about the high poverty rate in Ghana? Why don't you let you members stop paying tithes from the little money they make? Lets stop been quick to judge the country and try to see if we can help. It is not true that Ghana will be empty. Some people will definitely not go. Stop polluting Ghana's environment with discouraging words. Speak hope pastor.
we will not even give you even a day.
i really cannot understand why, for the past few weeks, this man of god has been saying negative things about ghana and putting the country down. it sounds to me he is beginning to look down on ghanaians. he should spend more time to uplift the nation and make it better and not insult ghanaians every opportunity he gets.
Sorry Mr. Otabil. If you dash me a free Visa to the USA I will not leave Ghana. I am happy here and cant go and live like a slave in the white mans land for anything. I eat free, drink free, sleep free and do everything free here in Ghana so far as am working.
How can we create this impression that it only Africans who are escaping poverty in the world that is bullshit go to INDIA,PAKISTAN,Philippines,SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA,THAILAND,INDONESIA,IRAQ,ETE EVEN CHINESE PEOPLE IN CHINA PAY BIG MONEY TO GET US AND EUROPEAN VISA THERE ALL RUNNING FROM POVERTY.
Not everyone will go pastor
This manipulator CROOK Pastor Mensah-Otabil like JJ Rawlings think they have all the brains to tell Ghanaians about life ; Pastor Otabil should understand that historically MIGRATION started from Africa some millions of years ago ; our anscestors migrated for a whole range of reasons ; Mensah -Otabil should also read his Bible and stop this cheap philosophical opnions about todays migrations because the Bible will tell him that Israelites migrated all over the middle east before they were assisted by the US and Britain to annex Palestine to create present day Israel ;the Jews are spread all the world because of Migration ; Africans are NO difirent besides the circumtances are no different today for people in Africa ; people like him and politicians and some media men still monies and go purchase properties in the US ; he has swindled his church monies to purchase a full ranch in the US and educated his children in the US ; this ia man who diverts church funds to invest in Banks and loses the money but then does not understand that it is thiffs like him who use the Bible to manipulate people who are nation wreckers; why does not Mensah -Otabil use the monies he makes to employ some of these young men to clean the Abosy -Okai area where his church stands -LOOK HOW DIRTY THE AREA IS ; today he does not understand why these young men choose to leave Ghana ; why does this charlatan use his creative thinking to employ these young men but rather prefers to lecture them because he thinks he can interpretate the Bible more than any Ghanaian .
i agree hahahaha