In the wake of the upsurge of COVID-19 cases in the country, some persons have sought to win cheap undeserving popularity by uttering weak remarks.
They would rather attract infamy than popularity which they seek, having already failed with their political prophecies about the winner of the December 7 elections.
We do not get it when such persons use their positions as clergymen to attack politicians and proceeding to chastise them for the upsurge in COVID-19 cases.
That is not only unfair, it is unscientific considering how the upsurge was noticed after the Christmas festivities and not the December 7 polls.
We do not intend to be specific about such persons. Let them wear it who the cap fits. Suffice it however to point out that it is important that we let honesty and integrity constitute the principal ingredients in our public discourses and endeavours.
Although there are no immediate data at our disposal to establish whether or not it was the campaign activities of the political parties which have accounted for the upsurge, we can nonetheless test this premise by looking at the incubation period of two weeks for the virus in its host. The elections took place on December 7 and there was no upsurge until mid-January. This presupposes that it was rather activities related to the Yuletide from December 25 and the assortment of birthday parties during the period under review which rather spread the virus.
Science should drive our public discourses and not political emotions as some Ghanaians do. They abuse their privileges on the pulpits and lose public respect.
We have had enough of the bashing of politicians by such persons, especially in the past few days following the upsurge of COVID-19.
Why won’t such persons voluntarily ask their flock to suspend congregational faith activities until such time that there is a downward spiral in COVID-19 cases?
Ghanaians have enough of the crap from persons who think and wrongfully so, that they are the repository of knowledge. Sadly their recent contest to show which of them is able to prophesize correctly which party was going to win, exposed them beyond any iota of doubt.
The political architecture of the country will not be complete without the relevant actors. We all have our individual roles to play in any given country.
While there are bad politicians so are there bad clergymen and other professionals in varying human endeavours. The good ones will continue to shine the path for mankind applying the word.
Elections cannot be ignored because they constitute integral parts of democracy. It could have only been imagined the constitutional crisis into which the country would have been plunged had the December 7 polls been suspended as some preferred. The ilk of the clergymen and their counterparts in active politics would have exploited the situation to the disadvantage of the country and indeed democracy.
Even the voter registration exercise was bastardised by the ilk of those attacking politicians because, according to them, it was going to aggravate the pandemic. It did not; as well as the recent campaign activities—most of which were held in the open with no noticeable rise in COVID-19 cases.