The Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of
Ghana (PCG), Rt. Rev. Prof. Emmanuel Martey, has said the leadership of
the nation has failed Ghanaians and that they should rather put their
hope and trust in God.
According to the moderator, “We are living in a corrupt society, and
that Ghanaians should not look up to today’s leadership because they are
not giving us any good examples.”
Rather, he advised Ghanaians to look up to Jesus “who is the author and
perfecter of our faith and the one who can provide the needs of the
entire nation.
The moderator made the remarks in a thanksgiving service sermon on the
theme: “Obedience to God’s word” to climax the 87th Speech and
Prize-giving day of the Krobo Girls Presbyterian Senior High School at
Odumase–Krobo in the Lower Manya Krobo Municipality.
Prof. Martey said we needed leaders such as the Moses,’ the Daniels,’
and the Josephs’ who would lead the country to the expected end.
He said Ghana as a country needed leaders who would bring good policies
in parliament to govern the Ghanaian society in order to satisfy the
needs of the citizens.
He, therefore, stressed the need for the government to complete all
ongoing projects, including that of GETFund projects, before adding new
ones.
He was full of doubt about where the President, and for that matter the
government, would get the funds from to build the proposed senior high
schools and the free secondary education he talked about recently.
“Where will you get the money for all these projects? He asked.
The PCG moderator advised that if there should be any money somewhere
that the government was aiming at for those projects, it should rather
be used to improve teaching and learning conditions in the existing
schools.
He said Ghanaians paid huge taxes to the government but were not seeing
the benefits, and described the present situation as overburdening the
citizenry.
“Government is not paying teachers and doctors who produce our human
resources and take care of our health needs respectively well, and they
are always aggrieved, and so pay them well for them to be happy and
provide the needed materials to improve teaching and learning conditions
in the existing educational institutions before you think of expanding
senior high schools,” he advised. Prof. Martey was full of praise for
the headmistress and the staff for instilling Presbyterian discipline in
the girls, which has produced many disciplined and responsible women
leaders for the country since the school started.
He pledged the PCG’s support for places of convenience and boreholes to ease the school’s challenges.
Earlier, the guest speaker, the Principal of Aburi Presbyterian Women’s
College of Education (PWCE), Dr. Mrs. Harriet Naki Amui, who is an old
student, said overall quality of instruction in both basic and second
cycle schools would be improved when there was a very cordial
relationship among the students, teachers, administrators, parents and
the school’s community as a whole.
The headmistress of the school, Ms. Cecilia Obenewa Appiah, said due to
the school’s large enrolment, water and places of convenience were the
major challenges facing the students, and appealed to the Presbyterian
Church of Ghana to come to their aid.
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