● Rev Charles Adom Darkwa

The North Kaneshie District Minister of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, Rev Charles Adom Darkwa has said that it would be very unfair for people to justify wrong doing by using the current economic hard­ship as a yardstick.

He said, “a bad attitude is like a flat tyre, you can’t get far until you change it.”

In his opinion the current economic challenges should not compel the citizens to engage in acts which are det­rimental to the society and the country as a whole.

The District Minister who spoke to The Spectator on Wednesday explained that negative activities such as galamsey wreaked havoc on society and that there was the need to collectively fight against it, because countries blessed with water bodies like Ghana guarded their resourc­es and made judicious use of them but it is a pity that “we are destroying our beautiful natural reserves due to eco­nomic hardship”.

“We must rather find prag­matic ways of making good use of our forest reserves to our benefits not destroy them.”

Rev Adom Darkwa said, although Ghanaians were in hard times, like prophet Jere­miah admonished in Jeremiah 29:7 “we should seek the peace and prosperity of the city to which I have carried you into exile, pray to the Lord for it because if it pros­pers you too will prosper.”

It is a clarion call to ac­tion, for all citizens to man­age in their respective trades and professions and work diligently for the betterment of their lives and society as a whole.

According to him, “praying for a country also involves supporting, having hope and working honestly, diligently and collectively for positive strides.”

The District Minister who is also the Minister-in-Charge of the Christ Family Congrega­tion reiterated Maya Angelou’s quote that “We may encoun­ter many defeats but we must not be defeated” to encour­age Christians to say positive words about the nation not condemn or say negative things because there’s hope of glory in Christ Jesus.

 By Portia Hutton-Mills