[ 2011-05-25 ]

Mills is a Christian and so am I!
The language and agenda of the NDC, call it
campaign message, as we draw closer to the 2012
general elections, concerning marketing President
Mills, as a brand, is a shame. But it will seem
obvious however, to serious watchers of our
country’s politics, and the reason is simple:
Mills has been a total failure.

Is it not pathetic, that, in spite of the
opportunity to be president, seeking re-election,
the only message the NDC is taking back to the
Ghanaian people is still that: Mills is a
Christian and he is humble, so vote for him again.


The NDC is just trying to pull a fast one on us
again, but we should not allow them this time
round. Ghana is a highly religious country and
that is not in doubt. The Ghanaian people believe
strongly in the existence of the Supreme Being:
God or Allah. The statistics say, about 63% of
Ghanaians are Christians, 16% Muslims and 21% have
indigenous beliefs.

I am a Presbyterian, and an avid believer in God.
I believe God loves me, he has the best plans for
me and by His Grace, what He has said about me
will come to pass. But I also know that all these
won’t just happen. I know I have to do what is
expected of me: work hard and have faith, and
whilst at that, continue to read my Bible and pray
every day.

The Bible tells us in Proverbs, about the end in
store for the lazy: A lazy person becomes a
servant (or debtor): “Diligent hands will rule,
but laziness ends in slave labor” (12:24); his
future is bleak: “A sluggard does not plow in
season; so at harvest time he looks but finds
nothing” (20:4); he may come to poverty: “The
soul of the lazy man desires and has nothing; but
the soul of the diligent shall be made rich”
(13:4 KJV).

The apostle Paul wrote in a letter to Christians:
“Brothers and Sisters, keep away from Christians
who are lazy. Such people do not live in the way
that we taught you. We tell you to do this by the
authority that the Lord Jesus Christ gives to us.
You yourselves know very well that you should live
as we did. We were not lazy when we were with you.
We did not depend on any of you for our food
without paying for it. No, we worked hard night
and day. We earned what we needed. So we did not
have to charge you anything at all. We did this,
not because we do not have the right to expect
such help. But we did it so as to be an example of
how you should live. Because when we were with
you, we gave you this rule: Whoever refuses to
work should not eat.

We say this because we hear that some among you
are lazy. They talk about other people but do not
work themselves. By the authority that we have in
the Lord Jesus Christ, we urge them to work
quietly. They must earn the money to buy their own
food. But you, brothers and sisters, must never
tire of doing good things.” 2 Thessalonians
3:6-13

Has Mills worked hard as a Christian? What use is
it, if a president is God fearing and not poverty
fearing as well? President Mills was voted to
power to take the development and growth of our
country a step further and not to keep reminding
us that he is a Christian and he is humble. It is
good to have a Christian as a leader but the
people will not forgive a lazy Christian who sits
back to watch them suffer under his watch, and so
must Mills not be forgiven.

Three days ago a GNA report revealed that about
80% of children under age two in the Central
Region are severely malnourished, a situation that
is affecting their growth as well as intellectual
development.

People living in the north are crying for the NDC
to fulfill their promise to inject an initial
amount of 200 million Ghana Cedis into a SADA fund
at its start and subsequently, to put in 100
million cedis annually for 20 years. In addition,
they said they were going to organize a donor
conference on SADA to raise an additional 200
million Ghana cedis for the fund. To this day,
they have only injected 25million Ghana cedis.

According to latest Gallup poll on Ghana,
12.7million (53%) of the population can’t afford
the cost of food. Those living comfortably have
dropped from 20% in 2007 to 4% in 2010. 34% of the
population can’t cope at all with the suffering,
a drastic rise from 11% in 2007. The World Bank
says Ghanaians have gotten poorer since 2009. The
NDC Government admits that LEAP benefit has not
increased since they came to power.

The people are crying for jobs, businesses are
complaining of cost and lack of sales.
Hopelessness has gripped young graduates and
corruption is on the rise. The better Ghana
promised us has become a mirage and yet all the
NDC continue to tell us is that Mills is a
Christian so vote him back to power. That is
simply not good enough.

But for President Mills and his aides, I had never
heard anybody say about themselves that “I am a
humble man.” If a president is humble, but not
hardworking, the result is the poverty and
deprivation, the suffering and pain that Ghanaians
live in today. The NDC should stop wasting our
time and ears with the Christianity and humility
card. Everybody has a belief, and we hope to find
our ultimate salvation in that faith, but we still
go to the polls to elect leaders to help run the
country and make our lives better and comfortable
and your responsibility as president ends there.
It is not your place as president, or director of
communications at the presidency or whoever you
are, to try and show us what to do with our
spiritual lives. That is why we have Pastors and
Imams and fetish priests to help us with building
and growing our spiritual lives. As for you, as
president, your primary responsibility is to make
sure that our country makes progress and the
people feel the progress.

The people need you to institute programmes that
will address the little things that matter to us
in our communities, like safe neighbourhoods,
clean gutters, hygienic food, streets with names,
flowing tap water, reducing road traffic, and
making sure that rules and regulations are obeyed.


Programmes that address the fundamental issues of
our time, the urgent need to tackle widespread
youth unemployment, good skills, good jobs and
good pay, industrialised economy, modernised
agriculture, a modern, integrated public transport
system that links every corner of our nation and
our country to our neighbours. Programmes that
will enhance the quality of life, like universal
access to quality education and quality
healthcare.

What the people need are programmes that will
establish a public sector that serves them with
efficiency, respect and at value for money and not
a constant reminder of how religious and humble
their president is.

What good is it, if a man claims to have faith but
has no deeds? Can such faith save him? Suppose a
brother or sister is without clothes and daily
food and one of you says to him, “go, I wish you
well; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing
about his physical needs, what good is it? Faith
by itself, if not accompanied by action, is
dead.” James 2:14-17 (NIV).
hkrapa@gmail.com

Source - By Herbert Krapa

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