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  • Let’s minimize criticism, pressure on EC and State institutions – Presby Clerk

    Let’s minimize criticism, pressure on EC and State institutions – Presby Clerk

    Clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana (PCG), Rev. Dr. Godwin Nii Noi Odonkor, has called on both politicians and the general public to avoid placing undue pressure on the Electoral Commission and other state bodies as Ghana approaches its December 7, 2024, elections.

    Rev. Dr. Odonkor cautioned that excessive and unconstructive criticism could destabilize Ghana’s democracy and lead to heightened political tension, fear, and anxiety.

    He also highlighted that such criticisms could negatively affect the individuals working within these institutions.

    In an interview with Graphic Online’s Emmanuel Ebo Hawkson, Rev. Dr. Odonkor expressed concern over the undue strain being placed on these institutions and their staff.

    “I think we are putting unnecessary burden and pressure on some of the institutions. Not just the institutions, but the persons who run those institutions. We should allow them to do their work.”

    He criticized the ongoing unjust accusations against the Electoral Commission and other state institutions, arguing that these actions hinder the country’s democratic progress. Despite Ghana’s history of democratic success, he emphasized the importance of reducing pressure on these institutions.

    Rev. Dr. Odonkor also commended the Electoral Commission’s decision to maintain the results in Accra and encouraged Ghanaians to be vigilant during the upcoming elections.

    “I like it when the EC said that it can never change the results in Accra and that everybody should be so vigilant at the polling stations. We should drive this seriously into all the political parties and the public”.

  • We have no intention to relocate Bawku NMTC – Moderator

    The Presbyterian Church of Ghana (PCG) says it has no intention to relocate the Presbyterian Nurses and Midwifery Training College (NMTC) in Bawku in the Upper East Region.

    “Temporarily, when the fighting was at its peak, we had to relocate students quickly for lectures in Bolgatanga, but lectures are still going on in Bawku,” the Right Reverend Professor Joseph Obiri Yeboah Mante, Moderator of the General Assembly, PCG,  said on Tuesday.

    “We don’t intend at this point to move it from Bawku, but then, if they don’t stop the fighting and push us, we wouldn’t want to waste resources.”

    “I really want to beg them, I don’t know the ins and outs of the causes of the fight, but whatever it is, it is costing us too much.”

    Prof J.O.Y. Mante said this in an interview with journalists on the sidelines of the commissioning of a Psychiatry Hospital in Bolgatanga.

    He said the PCG,  over the decades, had invested in various sectors of the economy, especially in the health sector, citing the Presbyterian Hospital in Bawku, which served residents of the area and beyond even in the midst of the conflict.

    “I have been thinking as to whether we should continue to invest resources and money in the Bawku Hospital because if we do and people just go and shoot and destroy it, that will be waste of time and money,” he said.

    “The whole of the Bawku area, not just the tribes will stand to lose. So I want to really beg, for whatever reason it is, they should sit and talk, otherwise, the development will slow down in the whole area.”

    The Moderator said during the peak of the conflict, Out-Patients attendance in the Presbyterian Hospital reduced from above 400 a day to about 40 patients.

    He reiterated calls for the people to cease fire and find an amicable solution to the conflict.

    “There are people who think that they are fighting for their rights. Sometimes, you will have to negotiate your rights for a peaceful co-existence,” he said.

    Source: GNA