From Sebastian R. Freiku, Kumasi The National Peace Council, per its regional branch in the Ashanti Region, and the Ashanti Regional Election Early Warning and Response Group (REEWARG), has cautioned pastors, traditional rulers and professionals like teachers who use their various platforms to engage in open and serious partisan politics. The two bodies explained that the practice has […]
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From Sebastian R. Freiku, Kumasi
The National Peace Council, per its regional branch in the Ashanti Region, and the Ashanti Regional Election Early Warning and Response Group (REEWARG), has cautioned pastors, traditional rulers and professionals like teachers who use their various platforms to engage in open and serious partisan politics.
The two bodies explained that the practice has a harmful potential and the tendency to create tension among the people and must be discouraged hence the admonition premised on complaints about the activities of these groups of persons.
A statement issued in Kumasi last Monday and signed by Rev. Fr. George Gyasi Adjei of the Council’s Regional Secretariat noted that some religious leaders, traditional leaders and teachers engage in partisan politics.
It said it had taken notice of some pastors who use their pulpits to preach politics to brainwash and create dissension among church members along party lines, while others go to the extent of predicting winners of the impending elections in so-called prophetic revelations from God, with some teachers using study sessions to brainwash their students.
The National Peace Council and REEWARG noted that traditional leaders and the clergy wield a lot of influence and reverence, since tradition and culture see them as symbols of unity and peace, more so when the 1992 Constitution bars them from such active partisan politics.
The Council urged nananom and the clergy to see themselves as role models and paragons of virtue, and not stoop so low as to defy the laws of the land, or indulge in things that would attract public criticism and slights.
Chiefs and ministers of the Gospel were called upon to demonstrate exemplary leadership qualities, which gives them the moral right to be able to rein-in others who breach the peace of the country.
They were reminded of the fact that they preside over many people with diverse political alliances and persuasions, and that any open endorsement of one presidential candidate might erase and diminish the trust and confidence accorded them, and even affect their regimes or tenure of office.
Teachers were also reminded of their roles as mentors to adhere to their professional duties, and not stir needless controversies among students.
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