Senior Presidential Advisor Yaw Osafo Maafo lamented that corruption in the nation is getting worse rather than better, which necessitates reflection on the part of the church and the government in order to identify workable measures to lessen the scourge.
Yaw Osafo-Maafo questioned if the Church has a positive moral influence on the 70% of Ghanaians who identify as Christians.
On Saturday, August 19, 2023, he made this statement while addressing the 23rd General Meeting of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana at Kwahu Abetifi, Eastern Region.
“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 requires 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 preaching’s 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/Joseph Asare
