Tema Traditional Council postpones ban on noise making.

Tema, April 23 GNA - The Tema Traditional Council has postponed the effective date of the annual ban on drumming and noise making prior to Homowo for one week.

Nii Adjei Kraku II, Tema Mantse, announced this when he addressed the Bethel Prayer Ministry International Easter Convention at Tema. The Council imposes a ban on noise making prior to the celebration of the annual thanksgiving festival of the Ga people.

He said, "realising the importance and benefits of the Good Friday and Easter to Christians, the Tema Traditional Council (TTC) has postponed the effective date of the ban from last Friday to next week Friday April 28".

This is in pursuance of the policy of accommodation and peaceful co-existence, Nii Kraku said, and urged religious leaders to adopt strategies to weed out charlatans from their ranks to save their image and that of the churches.

They could do this by forming an association to fraternise with each other so that they would detect the fake ones and expose them. He noted that it was unchristian for some Pastors and religious leaders to go about defrauding people as is often reported in the media.

Christians, who attend conventions, should return home changed and ready to lead lives worthy of their faith else the several days spent praying would have been wasted.

Preaching the sermon, Pastor Dan Opoku Gyeni, of the London branch of the church called on parents to give equal love and affection to their children to avoid hatred and mistrust, which brings disunity in the home.

He noted that children, who feel neglected by their parents, leave home and fall into bad company and eventually become liabilities not only to their family but the society and the nation as a whole.

The Right Reverend Paul Owusu Tabiri, Leader and Founder of the church prayed for continued peace in the country. Ten Pastors were ordained.