After Mahama’s Promise To Fix Dumsor – Murmuring Among Clergy? …As 2007 ‘Players Session For Rain’ At Akosombo is Revisited
The promise of President John Dramani Mahama to fix, instead of just manage, the current energy crisis that all Ghanaians are painfully brooding over, is generating an interesting debate among the clergy.
The debate is about how the clergy would by any necessary means help the President to fix the nagging problem.
Interestingly, some of the clergymen have already called on Ghanaians to hit the streets over the current national energy crisis, as well as other problems confronting the nation.
But, in 2006, when Ghana came face to face with the energy crisis, a section the clergy travelled as far as to Akosombo in the Eastern Region to pray for rains to fill the depleted Akosombo Dam.
The nation then was relying heavily on the Akosombo Dan for power generation, and the massive drop in the water level at the time had plunged the whole nation into a serious energy crisis.
The men of God at the time did not call on the citizenry to hit the streets and demonstrate against the then Kufour administration that was steering the ship of state.
Last Thursday, after President Mahama had addressed the nation on how things are going on in the state, a sharp division emerged among some top clergymen with huge congregation and following in the country.
One faction had called for street protests against the President’s handling of the present crisis, but the other group said such a call was misplaced and totally unfair to the President.
The latter group was of the position that if anything at all, helping the President with players and urging the citizenry to be patient and law-abiding would be a better option.
The partisan position of some men of God in recent times is raiding serious doubts in the minds of some Ghanaians, regarding how they wade in national discourse on issues about the nation’s forward movement.
There have been lots of prophecies of doom from some men of God, some of which created serious fear and panic among Ghanaians.
The behavior of some of these men of God has often sparked off a serious debate among the public, as to who is really the true man of God, because of the various prophecies of doom coming out of the ‘sanctimonious months of some of them.
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