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Captain Smart is surprised the leader of the Church of Pentecost was part of a delegation that visited a galamsey site in the Eastern Region to pray for galamsey activities to stop.

For Apostle Eric Nyamekye, Chairman of the Church of Pentecost, to lead the construction of a prison facility for the state and yet pray for persons perpetrating in crime to change, according to Captain Smart, is a useless venture.

The broadcaster says things that require knowledge and commonsense to avert does not need prayers, moreso when the act involved is a crime.

Be has questioned the essence of the prison the church constructed if he knew he was going to pray for those breaching the laws to change.

He asserts prayers are meant for things that are sinful but not illegal such as galamsey.

“Why should you build a prison for a nation and pray for people doing illegal things to change? There are things that require wisdom, knowledge, commonsense to stop. It is not prayer,” he said Monday, October 17, 2022, on Maakye.

The Chairman for the Church of Pentecost, Apostle Eric Nyamekye, had called for a political will and multifaceted solution to end illegal mining which is having a devastating effect on arable lands, farms and river bodies.

He spoke to the media after a tour of some minning sites in the Eastern Region by the Christian Ecumenical Bodies in the Country.

The tour by the Clergy was to observe and have first hand information on the level of devastation of lands and water bodies as a result of illegal mining activities.

The men of God sang patriotic songs and prayed at one of the mining sites to ask for God’s forgiveness on behalf of perpatrators destroying the land and river bodies through galamsey.

Notable among the clergy who visited the sites were the immediate past Chairman of the Christian Council of Ghana, Most Rev. Dr. Paul Kwabena Kwabena Boafo; Chairman of the Church of Pentecost, Apostle Eric Nyamekye and General Superintendent of the Assemblies of God ,Rev Dr. Paul Frimpong Manso.

Chairman for the Church of Pentecost, Apostle Nyamekye, pointed out that, “leadership failure results in people taking the law into their own hands. If leaders are not doing what they are supposed to do, then people would take the law into their own hands. So I am calling on our leaders to lead.”
He added, “somebody must control these young men in the galamsey industry. Somebody would have to educate them and they would stop. But when there is no leadership, then things go wayward.”

He also suggested some solutions to help curb the menace.
“Some people are not willing, those people have to be sought for, sit them down and cause them to be willing. But human beings there is nothing we can’t destroy or build,” he said.

By Felix Anim-Appau|Onuaonline.com