An 80 year old woman, Madam Edith Duku, has admonished the youth to critically examine prophecies which tell them that their mothers are witches.

She said it was disheartening that many mothers, mothers in-law and grandmothers had suddenly become the cause of the woes of their children and grandchildren under this generation.

Speaking in an interview with The Spectator last Friday, Madam Duku said she was not against prophecies but those which sought to create division in families were of concern to her hence her decision to talk about it.

She said everyone needed to be worried that many mothers and mother figures who had healthy relationship with their children and in-laws currently had become “enemies” due to someone’s false prophecy.

She was of the opinion that if the intention of such messages were really for the good of their supposed victims, the carriers would have used wisdom to address the situation because families were meant to live together in peace and unity not in pieces.

She said it would not be wrong to say some children had been manipulated whether physically or spiritually to believe that their parents who went through difficulties to raise them were those trying to destroy them.

“Now if a couple cannot have children,  it is a certain old woman’s fault, if they have a sick child it is the same excuse, if a person is jobless it is a mother’s fault and even if children are performing poorly academically mothers are to be blamed. ” she said.

Madam Duku said the impression being created was that if a woman crossed a certain age, she became a threat to her own family and this was robbing the youth of the rich experience and wisdom of old people.

“Have our children ever thought about the fact that if as mothers we wanted to destroy them as they are meant to believe, we would have destroyed them in their infancy not in their adulthood”, she said.

She said for daughters and daughters in-law, it was important for them to remember that they would also become mothers, mothers in-law and grandmothers in future.

“In your old age, would you be happy to be accused of being a witch and the cause of whatever challenges your family is going through,”? She asked.

From Dzifa Tetteh Tay, Tema.