Politicians have been encouraged to desist from the temptation of casting aspersions at their opponents on any platform, including electioneering for the 2016 polls, which is more than two years away.
According to the Managing Director of the Reform Health Centre, Dr Nana Kwaku Gyamfi, though it is not time for campaigning, politicians have started casting aspersions at their opponents.
Speaking at the second graduation at the Bethesda Centre of Evangelism and Bible Training School in Accra, he said elections were not wars but rather opportunities to showcase manifestoes, agenda and policies.
In his view, the dark days of insulting, assaulting and murdering political opponents must be a thing of the past and should not be entertained.
Nana Gyamfi, who was the guest speaker at the ceremony, called on politicians to inject decency into the political discourse of the country, saying “let Ghanaians respect democracy and abide by the rules”.
He also reminded pastors of their right to criticise but stressed that the criticisms must be constructive.
Nana Gyamfi advised the clergy against openly aligning themselves with any political party and said they should rather endeavour to offer advice to all parties.
Message to graduands
Taking his message from John 15:16, Nana Gyamfi advised the graduands to be mindful of three key words - ‘choose’, ’bear’ and ‘ask’ - which he said meant that God had chosen them to bear fruit and urged them to ask anything they wanted from Him.
“You must first put on the armour of God to be able to defeat Satan,” he said.
Director
The Director of the Bethesda Centre of Evangelism and Bible Training School, Mrs Sharna Welty, in her address, told the graduands to note with pride that since they had completed their courses, they were new persons filled with the power of the Holy Spirit.
She charged them to trust God in all their endeavours by being disciples of Jesus Christ, as she quoted Acts 1:8.
Mrs Welty gave the assurance that the construction of a clinic costing GH¢150,000 would begin this year.
The President of the Ghana National Association of Farmers and Fishermen, Nai Kwao Otuo V, prayed that the Word of God that had been sown at Anomawobi would bear good fruits and spread across the country.
Nai Otuo, who is also the 1994 2nd Best National Farmer, advised the new graduands not to spread any doctrine contrary to what they had been taught at the Centre.
On behalf of the graduands, Andrew Bondzie noted that apart from going through intensive study of the Bible and its application, they were trained in beekeeping, health care, organic farming and mushroom production.
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