Mensah Otabil hacks politicians, media; calls for revolution

General Overseer of ICGC, Pastor Mensa Otabil

The General Overseer of the International Central Gospel Church Pastor Mensah Otabil has sharply criticized politicians and the media for what he says has been their failure to address what matters most to Ghanaians.

According to him, the two groups are responsible for the country's problems.

Pastor Otabil who was speaking at the 5th William Ofori Attah Centenary lectures said politicians on daily basis fire rapid rounds of insults without care for the youth who get caught in the crossfire.

“Can't we see the damage we are doing to ourselves? We are a third world nation; we have a development deficit of 250 years, our cities are chocking with filth, educational standards are [low], infectious diseases are killing us, our highways are unsafe for passengers, our water bodies are polluted, our forest cover is gone, industries are dying, homes are breaking up, the gap between the rich and the poor keeps widening, yet when you listen to our parliamentary debate, read our newspaper headlines, listen to radio or watch television for a whole month, you will not come across any sustained intelligent discussion offering [solutions],” he noted.

He suggested a revolution similar to the uprising taking place in the Arab World against the media and politicians, a viewed shared by some members of the audience.

“If somebody should go and say 'all die be die' and we spend as a nation about a month discussing 'all die be die' while cholera is killing people, while filth is on out street, I think [we have a problem],” one participant said.