Reverend
Justice Boffah Poku Mensah a lecturer at the Christian Service University
College has called for church and spiritual leaders to be part of national
discourse that will ensure that there is peace in the country. According to
Reverend Boffah, partisan politics have divided the nation to the point that it
is very difficult for church leaders to openly express their opinion on national
issues without some section of the general public aligning them to a political
party if is not in their favour. This practice he says is not in the interest
of the nation as even in the ancient Israel, there was political power as well
as prophets who from time to time give directions and participate in national
discourse but Ghanaians have relegated this to the background and have resulted
to propaganda giving way to intemperate language that sort to cause violence
and chaos in the country. He therefore
advised political leaders to educate their supporters on the how they should
tolerate varied views and opinion even if they of different opinion. ‘What is
retarding the progress in peace building in this country is the fact that we do
not make objective analysis, we have politicize all issues including national
issues’’ he lamented. He however admitted that it is not too late for us to
start getting spiritual leaders into the decision making body of the state
since it will strengthen the state both physically and spiritually.
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