Chairman of the Kumasi Presbytery of the Global Evangelical Church, Reverend Dr Smith Francis Tettey has called on Ghanaians to vote men and women with integrity into power in the December general elections.
This, according to him, would help change the status quo of the country’s economy, which he describes as “Fraught with glorified corruption which seems invisible to the laws of the land.”
In his address at the 2024 Kumasi Presbytery Representative Conference held in Ayigya, Oforikrom Municipality, Reverend Dr. Tettey emphasized the urgent need for a shift in the country’s political landscape.
He highlighted the incidences of corruption, describing it as a widespread danger that has escaped effective legal scrutiny, leading to harmful effects on the nation’s economy.
According to him, the law must take its proper cause of bringing to order whoever falls prey to corruption practices irrespective of thier personality during the upcoming December 7 polls.
“It is a pity that we will say that what is wrong should be allowed to go and that it is normal, that is what has brought us where we are and I think we need to turn around,” he said.
Reverend Tetteh also added that giving money out to people in brown envelopes during elections should never be allowed.
“We have given various names to wrong things, the brown envelope syndrome that seems to be accepted all over Ghana is something that we must not allow to continue, it is wrong, you are paid to do your job as an electoral commission”, he reiterated.
Source: Comfort Sweety Hayford/ATLFMNEWS
