Even President Jesus Would Have A Difficult Time Ruling Ghana

It is not my judgment call to determine whether, indeed, Pastor Emmanuel Badu Kobi, Head of Glorious Wave Church International, is a prophet of our Christian God or Tigare; but there is one thing patently pedestrian about his diarrheal pronouncements on the performance of the Akufo-Addo-led government of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) that leaves one wondering whether he would not be better off being promptly housed in a mental asylum, than so smugly presume to represent the will of Divine Providence among the membership of his church or congregation (See “Ghanaians Have Regretted Voting for Akufo-Addo – Rev. Badu Kobi” Ghanaweb.com 5/4/18).

The caption of the article reporting his prognosis on the Akufo-Addo government was rather personal, though Rev. Badu Kobi claims not to harbor anything personal against President Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. He claims to be only telling the truth as revealed to him by God or Divine Providence. But I strongly doubt it because venturing into the 2016 Presidential Election, Pastor Badu Kobi was smack behind the unspeakably corrupt regime of the John Dramani Mahama-led National Democratic Congress (NDC). He lost bigtime! Is he therefore a prophet of Baal or Yahweh? Dear Reader, you be the judge.

The Glorious Wave Church International pontiff also says that he predicted that Ghanaians would regret having voted to elect then-Candidate Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo barely, or rather scarcely, six months into the latter’s governance, for reasons that are too laughable as to make one wonder whether, indeed, Mr. Badu Kobi has taken leave of his capacity for common sense and objective faculties or perspective on events on our national political landscape. One would have thought that the recent scandalous revelations involving the Mahama cabinet appointees who were illegally paid double salaries would have instructively informed his judgment in some sobering and positive ways. But it sadly appears to me that Pastor Badu Kobi is a sort of devil-may-care breed of religious operative who sees absolutely no evil where the political dealings of the democratically deposed Mahama regime is concerned.

Which keeps one wondering whether the Head Pastor of Glorious Wave Church International was not a prime beneficiary of the thievish corrupt dealings of the Mahama-led regime of the National Democratic Congress. Now, let’s take one example here: and it regards the fact that an apparently cynical and “religiously” unconscionable Mr. Badu Kobi firmly believes that Nana Akufo-Addo’s fee-free Senior High School policy initiative, which wisely and progressively put at least 90,000 Ghanaian teens whose parents had absolutely no means of facilitating their academic and professional development into our classrooms, is the worst policy initiative to have been implemented by any postcolonial Ghanaian leader.

Maybe somebody ought to remind Mr. Badu Kobi that it was the people-centered missionary activities of such major Christian religious denominations as the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, the Methodist Church of Ghana, the Catholic Church of Ghana, the Anglican Church of Ghana, and the Seventh-Day Adventist Church of Ghana, among several others, that enabled the likes of the Glorious Wave Church International leader to be able to go to school and learn to read and write. He may not know this, if he attended one of the government-sponsored Local Authority Schools, that the intervention of the national government in the education of Ghanaian youths came much later, and it almost invariably took the form of government takeover of the so-called Mission Schools.

If he were a critical thinker, Pastor Badu Kobi would have readily anticipated the next point that I was poised to hitting. Which is to simply ask how many schools and health clinics his church has built or established around the country for the improvement of the lives of the abjectly poor and destitute. I know that he is widely known to vulgarly spurge by gifting cars and houses to the rich and famous in obvious self-glorification. Recently, for instance, Pastor Badu Kobi was widely reported to have said that he did not parcel out gifts of cars to poor people, because he did not want to add on the unpleasant burden of having to regularly ensure the fueling and general maintenance and upkeep of the same. And so it is all-too-clear why he would politically align himself with the Cash-and-Carry elitist fortunes of the Mahama Posse.

Pastor Badu Kobi also probably believes that the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), established by the Kufuor-led government of the New Patriotic Party, which has enabled the children of the poor and destitute to freely access health services was the worst thing that happened to Ghanaians. The man appears to be living in his own bubble world which, of course, he is inalienably entitled to. The pity here, though, is that too many Ghanaians who worship in his church lack the requisite intelligence, wisdom and foresight to realize the glaring fact that the Head Pastor of Glorious Wave Church International is absolutely not their kind of pastor or ideal leader. And that, in sobering reality, Pastor Badu Kobi is an unabashedly passionate political partisan who would be far better off running a political party or organization than a Christian Church.

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