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Security Analyst and Peace Ambassador, Irbad Ibrahim has called for calm in the country, urging the citizenry to treat the prophecy of Prophet TB Joshua, the leader of Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN) with the disdain it deserves.

According to him, there is no empirical evidence in the pronouncement by Prophet TB Joshua as he is not the CIA boss.

Popular Nigerian Prophet, JB Joshua, over the weekend, asked members of his Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN) to pray against planned ‘foreign attacks’ on Ghana and Nigeria.

A 2:56s video culled from a live sermon on Sunday April 10 that aired on the Emmanuel TV channel shows the prophet urging thousands of his SCOAN congregants to begin sporadic prayers for the two countries in order to scuttle the ‘evil plans’ of the unnamed attackers.

“I am seeing Thursday, Friday, and Saturday –if I may say Thursday – because these evil people they are very funny. Anything can just happen. You will be very shocked to see what will happen, because when the prayer is going in this direction they [attackers] change to [another] direction.

But commenting on the prophecy, Irbad Ibrahim on Okay Fm’s Ade Akye Abia Morning Show indicated that security is only about intelligence gathering and it has nothing to do about the church or the Mosque.

“Let’s treat this with the disdain it deserves...Today, we are prophesying about everything; we are taking the pulpit into all other arenas. If Ghana is going to play a football match, someone will prophesy the score line to favour Ghana but in the end we lose the match,” he underscored.

“Now, the prophecies have moved from football, politics and now to the security matters in the country. I don’t think we should tolerate this; I believe security is a pragmatic area which is based upon technical gathering of intelligence, rather than someone sitting somewhere to predict,” he added.

He however urged the country to take the needed precautions and also strengthen the effectiveness of the nation’s security system in order to prevent the incident from happening.

He reiterated that what happened in Burkina, Mali and Ivory Coast shows that the attacks can happen anywhere.

He therefore called on the security agencies to check the borders which people can enter without due diligence, and the proliferation of arms in the country as these are the areas the country has difficulties and not that someone will stay in Nigeria to prophesy terrorism in Ghana.

He believed the unguarded statement from Prophet TB Joshua will affect productivity in the country because the people will live in fear for the knowledge that they can be attacked within 3 days of the 7 working days.

“With God’s grace, the prophecy will not materialise. Our studies have shown that any Africa country that help France to fight these terrorist groups, receive attacks from them but as it stands, Ghana has not taken any part in fighting these groups. As long as our foreign policy posture is not in line with the French to help them in attacking Al-Qaeda groupings, I don’t think any attack can come to Ghana,” he assured.