Clergy Admonished To Champion Environmental Campaigns

The Kumasi Metropolitan Chief Executive (MCE), Mr. Osei Assibey-Antwi, has called for the clergy to lead efforts at keeping the environment clean and safe.

They should use their tremendous influence with the people to talk them out of littering and making a mess of the environment.

He was performing the ceremony to inaugurate the Kumasi office of the Ghana Institute of Linguistics, Literacy and Bible Translation (GILLBT).

Mr. Assibey-Antwi said more should be done to help everybody to accept to do the right things to beautify and care for their surroundings.

It was important for everybody to appreciate that every element of their existence was derived from their own surroundings, he added.

He also used the occasion to ask the church to forge stronger partnership with the metropolitan assembly to bring development to the people.

The Reverend Dr. Kwabena Darko, Chairman Kumasi Chapter of GILLBT, said their target was to translate the Bible into all local languages in the country by year 2020.

He said they were determined to raise the needed funds to accomplish the task.

He expressed satisfaction with the spiritual and financial support for what he termed 'a noble cause' by church leaders across the nation.

The Rev Thomas Sayidu Imoro, acting Executive Director of GILLBT, said the Bible was now in 15 local Ghanaian languages and that work was in progress on additional 14.

The goal was to aid the people to read the Bible in their own language.