Strive To Be More Professional—Rev. Obeng To Journalists

Journalists in Ghana have been advised to strive to be more professional in the discharge of their work and avoid practices that not only affect their reputation but endanger the country as well.

Rev. Ransford Obeng, Head pastor of Calvary Charismatic Church in Kumasi who gave the advice noted that though some journalists have been very professional in the discharge of their duties, some others have been a dent on the profession.

He pointed the use of superficial words and jargons to create fear and panic by some practitioners as needless saying there is a better way to report such information without necessarily creating fear and panic in the system.

The CCC pastor who is well known for speaking his mind passionately on issues affecting the social caliber of the nation expressed his disgust at ‘the inability or unwillingness’ by some journalists to follow news they report to its logical conclusion.

“The report of the arrest of a rapist or robber and that is all, we don’t hear anything on the case again as to whether he was sent to court and jailed or left to come back into the society and they go following some other news which they will drop in the middle again”. He pointed.

He urged journalists in the country to help expose corrupt practices in every nook and cranny of the country to help the president succeed in his fight against corruption.

“Please do not only focus on that of the politicians but also on your own colleague journalists, pastors, and other fields as you know that corruption has successfully weaved itself into the very fiber of society hence it's everywhere”. He admonished.

Rev. Obeng’s interaction with the journalists was to inform the public about the CCC’s upcoming New Year conference with Head pastor of the International Central Gospel Church Dr. Mensah Otabil.

Expressing trust in Dr. Otabil, the CCC pastor noted that being the first ever Ghanaian to establish a private university when no one dared, such a person surely has so much for the people of Kumasi.

“It is not for nothing that I keep inviting him year after year, it is because I trust him to deliver as a lot of people usually start the year wrong.

...He is coming to teach on how we can set good and godly goals and how to achieve them by the end of the year”. He announced.

The program which starts on the evening of Friday, January 19 to Sunday, January 21, 2018, is expected to draw thousands from the length and breadth of the Ashanti region as Dr. Otabil has always been the toast of the people in the area.

 Even though Rev. Obeng has been teaching his congregation about wisdom, he thinks the angle of Wisdom taught by Dr. Mensah Otabil is also very essential for Christian living.