Apostle Kofi Nkansah-Sarkodie says he is against pelting politicians with objects like sachet water or plastic bottles, but fully endorses hooting at non-performing politicians, ministers and Members of Parliament (MPs) as a form of expressing anger or dissatisfaction with their performance.
He said even though in advanced democracies such as the United Kingdom and the USA, people throw rotten eggs at politicians as a way of expressing their frustrations, same should not be encouraged in our country.
Commenting on the recent throwing of sachet water at the Majority Leader and MP for Suame Constituency, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, at Suame Magazine in Kumasi, Saint Sark, as he is popularly called, said even though he advised against the Majority Leader’s parliamentary bid in the 2020 parliamentary elections, he would never endorse pelting politicians with objects in a country where harmful objects like stones and sticks were found everywhere.
Saint Sark, who is the Founder of the Open Arms Ministries, made these observations when he addressed journalists on recent happenings in the country at a press conference last Tuesday in Kumasi.
He condemned people advocating for coups d’état in the country, asking them to desist from such utterances, emphasing that there would not be any such uprisings again in Ghana, and that anybody who attempted that would regret it.
Touching on the Ghana Card and the SIM card registration exercises, the Man of God cautioned officials of the National Identification Authority (NIA) and the Telcos to be wary of the implications of their actions, stressing that the days of “order from above” were over, and that those in official positions must know that they would be called upon one day to account for their actions or omissions.
He lamented that upon all their exposure to the way things were done in other jurisdictions, our politicians still act like novices in their official duties, and advised the NIA and the Telcos to extend the deadline for the registration exercises to the end of December 2022 to enable people who were yet to register to so.
Government officials, according to him, should refrain from blaming the country’s recent economic woes and resorting to the IMF on Covid-19 and the Russian/Ukraine war, and explained that the country was still importing common vegetables like tomatoes and onions from our next door neighbour, Burkina Faso, even at the peak of the pandemic and the Russian/Ukraine war.
He also congratulated the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for a successful National Congress, but lamented that the vote-buying phenomenon in our politics was abominable, and suggested that the only way out was to increase the number of delegates in all the elections in political parties to about 20,000 to make the practice unattractive.
From Thomas Agbenyegah Adzey, Kumasi
