Leadership tasked to tackle galamsey menace

Rt. Rev. Professor Emmanuel Martey said Ghana had been invaded and was being raped of its resources but what was sad was that nobody, including the national leadership, chiefs, among others, seemed to care about what was going on.

“Are there no Members of Parliament (MPs), chiefs and district assemblies where the environment is being destroyed?” he asked.

“What is our government doing when foreigners and their Ghanaian counterparts are destroying the environment? Religious leaders are you sleeping if the political and traditional leaders are sleeping? Ghana is being raped,” he asked, with visible emotion.

Rt Rev Prof Martey was speaking at the ordination of 10 priests of the church in Wa Sunday.

The new priests were drawn from the Brong Ahafo, Northern, Upper East and Upper West presbyteries of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana.

He asked of the whereabouts of the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) when “our land is being invaded” and asked why they were paid.

He pointed out that Ghana was at war and that the GAF must stand up and supports the police to fight nation wreckers, just as the US Marines did in times of the invasion of the US.

Rt Rev Prof Martey said the exploitation of nature, if not checked, would ruin the entire earth, for which reason there was the need to preserve nature and the environment.

He said all chiefs who had sold their lands for galamsey activities, without taking the future of their people into consideration, had sold the future of their people.

The moderator was of the view that leaders of today had taken advantage of the helpless and vulnerable in all kinds of activities.

“The Lord will judge every ruler who takes advantage of his people,” he added.

He advised the new priests to give hope to the hopeless and never allow themselves to be worshipped as if they were kings, since Jesus Christ refused to be made a king by his people.

The Deputy Upper West Regional Minister, Mr Caesar Kale, congratulated the new priests on answering their divine call and appealed to them to be true servants of God and mankind.

On this year’s general election, he appealed to all stakeholders, particularly the Electoral Commission, the media and the security agencies, to play their professional roles well to forestall any mayhem.

For his part, a representative of the ordinands, Rev Edward Nana Addy, said as agents of the church, they had accepted the charge to be the mouthpiece of the church in their various localities.

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