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The Chairman of the Ho Presbytery of the Global Evangelical Church Rev. Emmanuel Barrigah has expressed concern over the politicisation of the current energy crisis facing the country, describing it as sad and unfortunate.
“It is sad to note that a matter of serious national concern such as the current energy crisis has also fallen into the bowl of politicisation”, he lamented.
He has, therefore, appealed to both government and the opposition parties to put aside partisan considerations and look at the current crisis as very serious and a threat to all the economic gains that have been made so far by the nation.
Rev. Barrigah was delivering an address to open the 2007 Conference of the Presbytery Representative Committee of the Ho Presbytery of the
The conference which is on the theme “Striving for Excellence” would address matters affecting the church and other issues that border on the overall development agenda of the nation.
He observed that a multi-party approach would be needed in the quest to finding lasting solutions to the energy crisis saying, “let us all pool our resources and all that we can contribute together to find a lasting solution to this problem”.
The presbytery also commended government for the introduction of the National Youth Employment Programme and suggested that government takes steps to address the perception that the “laudable project is also taking on a partisan garb” that only ruling party members are being considered for the job opportunities available.
One other issue that he expressed worry about was what he described as “the dangerous phenomenon of Mob Justice or is it “Mob Injustice” creeping into the society” which should be nipped in the bud.
While commending the Police and other security agencies for their efforts in curbing the rate of crime in the society, he expressed the hope that they would step up their efforts and build the confidence of the public in them so that the practice of mob justice would be stopped.
He, however, appealed to the citizenry to exercise restraint whenever they lay hands on a suspected criminal and hand them over to the police for appropriate action instead of meting out instant justice to such suspects adding that “instant justice is injustice”.
The National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) he observed, still continues to face problems in its implementation and urged government and all stakeholders to work towards removing the bottlenecks in the implementation of the programme.
Rev. Barrigah said that the church had taken note of the recent introduction of reforms in the educational sector and expressed the hope that the reforms introduced would improve the delivery of quality education to the citizenry so as to ensure effective national development.
Dr. Nathaniel Sodzi who was the guest of honour at the ceremony admonished the church not to depend on government but to make itself self-reliant in order to complement the efforts of government at bringing betterment to the citizenry.
He exhorted the church to do well to bring up their children in the fear of God so that they could grow up to become meaningful citizens committed to the cause of national growth and development.
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