Poor and vulnerable continue to suffer injustices in society – PCG Moderator
The Right Reverend Professor Emmanuel Martey, Moderator of the General Assembly of Presbyterian Church of Ghana (PCG) on Wednesday expressed concern about acts of injustice in the society.
“We live in a world where equal access to education, justice and wealth is still a mirage for many. Just by virtue of one’s parents, one could be condemned to abject poverty, street life or…hopelessness,” he added.
Rt Rev Martey expressed the concern in his Christmas Goodwill Message to the Church and State at a press conference in Accra.
He called on the leadership of the Church, Clergy, the Executive, Legislature, Judiciary and other stakeholders to initiate interventions that would bring joy and hope to the people.
Rt Rev Martey noted that people in abject poverty, easily became vulnerable and easy prey to hardened criminals who recruit and train them for armed robbery, drug peddling and other social vices.
“When they are caught, it is these vulnerable ones who are killed either through exchange of gun fire with the police or mob justice… When it comes to imprisonment, it is still these poor and vulnerable ones who suffer.
“The arm of the law is usually too short to reach the big people in society who recruit them therefore, no matter how many are killed or imprisoned, crime continue because more vulnerable people are available to be recruited always.”
On health, Rt Rev Martey said people still died of preventable causes of death; some had no money to seek better health care, while others were involved in all sorts of superstitious beliefs that prevented them from seeking the needed assistance.
The Moderator of the General Assembly of PCG, therefore, called on the public, especially the church to support government’s efforts to curb societal injustice and unnecessary deaths from preventable diseases by sustaining social interventions through donations and scholarships.
He called on the Government and traditional leaders to conscientise the youth to be useful citizens to prevent crime through education because it was everyone’s responsibility to bring sanity into the society.
Rt Rev Martey said Christians had a role to play because they constituted about 60 per cent of Ghana’s population.
He said the Church need to educate their members on economic and financial management, discipline and corruption.
Touching on Ghana’s oil find, he said, the discovery was a blessing and an answered prayer from God and called on the citizenry to learn from the experiences of gross mismanagement of Gabon and Nigeria oil resources, which had brought curses on the two countries rather than blessing.
Source: GNA