The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has described the Founder of the
International Central gospel Church (ICCG), Mensah Otabil, as a threat
to national security and a secret supporter of the opposition New
Patriotic Party (NPP).
The Communications Director of the NDC, Solomon Nkansah,said on Thursday
that Pastor Otabil was openly biased against the ruling party and was
inciting the public against the government.
His comments come after Pastor Otabil called on Ghanaians to demand better of government.
“We can’t just be happy because a road has been tarred. We can’t just be
happy that we didn’t have electricity now we have electricity. We can’t
be happy with minimals”, he said, adding: “…citizens must have an
appetite for better,” Pastor Otabil said.
The Pastor’s comments have drawn condemnation from members of the NDC,
with Mr Nkansah accusing him of misleading the public “under the guise
of the Bible”.
“If we condemn him some of you in the media think we’ve said something
abominable, but what this man has said is very frightening. It amounts
to inciting the public against the government. Under the guise of the
Bible, he says all sorts of things against those he is not in support
of. But you know what; God is bigger than him and so whenever he says
such things people don’t listen to him. I am ashamed and scandalized as a
Christian that a man of God can speak like Pastor Mensah Otabil has
done,” he told Accra-based Kasapa FM.
Mr Nkansah added: “If he doesn’t know, he should check the constitution
and he’ll realize that minority rules the country but they are voted
into power by the majority of Ghanaians. We cannot all be President and
MPs that is why we vote for one person to rule and enact laws
respectively
“These are the men who are a threat to national security and
co-existence. Because you don’t support the NDC government, you are
inciting the public against the government. During the NPP regime he
didn’t preach this way, he rather preached with the Ghana flag, why is
he preaching this way now. The last time it was generational thinkers,
today it’s about revolt against minority rule. We can continue to
countenance such worrying conducts of this Pastor."
Pastor Otabil, who spoke at a book launch, had also called on the State
to stop “monopolising” and “hijacking” business opportunities from
citizens and rather be an “enabler” for private organisations and
individuals to do business and also run the country.
He said: “I think one of the biggest problems nations like ours face is
that the state, which should be an enabler, most of the time, becomes an
agent of suffocation.
“There’s too much impact of the state in the lives of the people…we have
to get to the point where it’s not the state running the country, it’s
the people running the country, its entrepreneurs running the country,
its businessmen [running the country].
“The state should get out of hospitals, the state should get out of the
schools, the state should get out because they mess up everything they
get involved in and get individuals to run the place.”
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to national security and a secret supporter of the opposition New
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