Ghana Is Sinking – Moderator

The moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, Rt. Rev Prof Emmanuel Martey says the country is fast sinking in poverty and gradually losing its impressive past glory.

Rev Martey said the citizenry were living in a state of hopelessness and called for God’s intervention. He emphasized that apart from the country’s economy, other facets of the society including moral uprightness, had been affected.

Though the moderator did not attribute the development to the Mills administration, he wondered why GH¢1, which was equivalent to one dollar, had depreciated so fast. Stating that one dollar was almost equivalent to GH¢2 currently, Rev. Martey wondered why the cedi depreciated by about 300 percent in 1999 and almost 50 percent under the current regime headed by the renowned tax law professor.

He expressed utter shock at the fast depreciation of the cedi against the dollar, adding, “I don’t think that even in Nigeria where corruption presumably is rampant, a dollar would be equivalent to two naira,” the leader of the Presbyterian Church in Ghana noted at a church service in Kumasi, the Ashanti Regional capital on Sunday.

He was delivering a sermon entitled, “The time is fulfilled so repent and believe” to mark the elevation of the Tek branch of the Church from a sub-district to a full district at a service held at the auditorium of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). Rt. Rev Martey emphasized that prayers by the faithful in the country were doing the magic in exposing gargantuan crimes committed by people.

The moderator revealed that more gargantuan crimes committed by persons against the state would be exposed in the coming days and that such people would never go unpunished.

How could not fathom why the state could pay huge sums of monies to persons and institutions as judgment debts when millions of people go to bed hungry whereas others pass the night in the open.