Senior Presidential Advisor Yaw Osafo- Maafo, says the the fight against illegal mining menace has gone beyond deployment of army but rather requires moral resetting of the country.
The fight against illegal mining in Ghana has largely failed as the menace still festering in many parts of the country inspire of intermittent deployment of military.
Yaw Osafo-Maafo believes the church has crucial role to play in imbibing good morals in Ghanaians to desist from such acts to sustain the fight against Galamsey and protect the environment.
“Look at what galamsey is doing to the land should we allow money a few people want to make to even destroy the places of water we need to drink.There are areas that we can’t even purify the water, and where you can ,we are spending about three times what we used to spend to purify the water. How do we go that way and is this not happening in the direct eyes of our chiefs , don’t they give these lands for the galamsey , are they not connected , are we doing the galamsey outside or inside Ghana , if it is inside Ghana are people not seeing it going on ” Yaw Osafo-Maafo said.
He continued “People see it ,people condone because the beneficiaries are many and varied.The President who once said that he is putting his presidency on the line so what is happening .It is not something that you need the army to solve it is a moral problem and therefore christianity comes in what morals are we teaching” Yaw Osafo Maafo said
He said this when addressing the 23rd General Meeting of Presbyterian church of Ghana at Kwahu Abetifi in Eastern Region on Saturday August 19,2023
Yaw Osafo -Maafo questioned why 70% of Ghanaians profess to be christians yet corruption continue to increase.
“If there is that much decay in our body politics the christian community has a role to play. 70% of the population is christianity so what kind of message do we continuously give to that population of the country, what kind of moral lesson are we able to put through this huge percentage. If we are not able to do anything to make certain changes then christianity itself has a problem in terms of making our words work”
Yaw Osafo-Maafo said the seriousness of the graft menace require stakeholders particularly the church and government to go back to the drawing board.
” I think we need to go back and visit the drawing board to see what we should do as a Christian group to influence the behavior of the system, is it that your preachings your moral lessons are now not effective, we should ask few questions , if indeed 70% of us are christians and corruption begins to go from bad to worse what is really happening we need to do some retrospection and as a country together with the government take certain actions to redeem the nation from corruption”
Source:Mybrytfmonline.com/Obed Ansah
