*#Let'sFixTogether: The Church Of Pentecost deserves our praise not criticism

In one of his many travels, a Prince of Goka one day entered Brɛman (A Nation of Suffering) with his entourage.

It was an eyesore to him, seeing many a youth and adult alike, men and women living a hopeless life.

The Brɛman people were on their own, battling the bites and stings of all harsh weathers. They fought for a sleeping place with stray animals, and they slept in the open without a roof over their heads.

As caring and naturally a good man, the Prince was moved by the plight of these hapless folks. He then arranged for a meeting with the ruler of Brɛman, who said to the Goka Prince that his pressing needs are not one of housing those "riffraff and idle hands". He only cared for what to feed, for himself and for those who operated with his commandments.

Angered by the words of the uncaring Brɛman ruler, and against the remonstrances of his kinsmen to forbear, the Goka Prince assured the people he'll lighten their burden and provide them bedding deserving of a human livery.

Before four market days passed, Brɛman saw buildings erected on all empty plots and were fitted with all the needs of a happy home. These homeless folks were moved in in the presence of the Goka Prince. He was thanked, and the people he'd brought great happiness to said they'll forever remember him in their prayers.

A year later, the Prince went back to Brɛman, he saw the people he not long ago rescued from the streets have returned to the same sorry state in their numbers, and were this time worsened in their poor living than before.

Upon enquiry, he was informed that, not long after he handed the keys to them, the uncaring ruler of Brɛman claimed the keys to the building from them, assuring them of taking better care of the structure and for its future maintenance. But before they'll know, they've been evicted, and those who are close to the ruler have been relocated there. They'll only own a bedding there if they can pay a cut-throat charge he's placed on their heads.

Upon hearing this, the Goka Prince cursed Brɛman and its ruler, and to those he helped, he gave them options to either follow him to Goka, or they stay in their misery and witness the collapse of Brɛman in yonder.

Indeed, many of the hopeless left with the Goka Prince and those who stayed behind were those who reported to the outside world the evil that befell Brɛman afterwards.

And this is how it came to pass:

The beauty of those new buildings meant everyone, including the ruler himself, fought for a place there. And the whole city moved in unison to congregate in those new edifices. One night as they slept, maybe bringing to pass the curses rained upon them by the Goka Prince, an earthquake of a higher magnitude brought the whole of Brɛman to a level ground, and its trapped inhabitants made the wreckages their graves, as none was retrieved for proper burial rites and entombment. It was ground zero thus to those who visited there to see for themselves the report they heard. And those who reported the incident were the homeless who were by then sharing bedding on an open field.

Brɛman is now a desolate land, reduced to rubbles and debris.

Today, here in Ghana, the Church of Pentecost have embarked on building ultramodern prisons.

It's better we praise the Church for the project that will decongest our overcrowded prisons. It behoves on the government to maintain the facilities. And those who think the church should have done other projects instead of building prisons, should as individuals or in a group lead by example and build those projects to add up to the numbers we are looking for.

The Goka people say: _"nnam dodoɔ nsɛe nkwan."_

It takes a collective spirit to build a nation.

One more thing, curses be upon the head that'll steal these projects of their intended purposes.

This story was sponsored by: Mr. Emmanuel Fordjour

A member of the Church of Pentecost (Goka Branch)

Contact: 0272049999

Written by: Charles Yeboah (Sir Lord)

Founder of The New Africa Movement

And The Voice Of The Lord Ministries

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