Managing Editor of “Insight”
newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jnr., wants State Prosecutors to arraign
religious leaders before court when innocent Ghanaians die as a result
of their divine instructions backfiring.
He noted with much
seriousness the impunity of some religious leaders who take refuge by
quoting the scripture verse “Touch not my anointed and do my Prophet no
harm”. He therefore wants the ‘so-called’ men of God to be prosecuted
for murder anytime they issue directives to patients who on the
sick-bed.
Contributing to a panel discussion on “Alhaji and
Alhaji” on Radio Gold, the Senior Journalist recounted the ordeal of a
mother of three who followed blindly the directives of a man of God.
He
narrated that the woman had been taken ill and was rushed to the SSNIT
hospital for treatment. Her doctor prescribed some medications to cure
her sickness but according to Mr. Pratt, the woman discontinued the
usage of her medicines after receiving a divine word from her Pastor who
claimed God wants her to quit using the drugs because He had already
cured her.
Her refusal to take her drugs eventually claimed her
life but the Pastor was not ensnared by the laws, though his falsity
landed the mother of three children in her grave, Mr. Pratt said.
“Now,
if a Pastor behaves this way. If a so-called man of God conducts
himself in this manner. That man of God is no different from somebody
who had administered fake drugs to a patient and killed that patient,”
he emphasized.
He therefore insisted that Pastors who contravene
the constitution should not be left off the hook but be made to face the
full rigors of the law since to him, they are not superior beings.
“I
want to insist that Pastors who break the law in this manner leading to
the death of innocent citizens and so on should be dealt with according
to the law. They should be prosecuted for murder.”
This, he held strongly, will ensure that “that crime is punished” in the nation. |
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