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Dr. George Akuffo Dampare, the Inspector General of Police (IGP), has questioned the right of Ghanaian prophets to make claims about specific individuals in the name of prophecy.
He claims that even while the police administration does not oppose the prophetic ministry, it will not stand by while some dishonest men of God carry out their operations to sow chaos, fear, and panic throughout the nation.
In his testimony before the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament on January 19 to defend the order to pastors to refrain from making public predictions of doom, he mentioned this among other things.
Why is it that God himself decided not to tell us when we were going to die? It means a lot and even then, if you have a prophecy about somebody dying, you have a way to communicate it in our typical Ghanaian environment even in proverbs for the person to decipher but you don’t put fear and panic in the person, the person’s immediate family, and the person’s extended family and the whole country.
“Honourable Chair, you were elected to be Members of Parliament by our votes therefore, you have been empowered by the Constitution and other laws to make certain pronouncements, which is acceptable. But those who are prophets, who elected them over my life to just get out there and make pronouncements about me when I am not a member of your family, I am not your church member and probably the person might not even believe in God.
“We [Police] are deep-seated Christians that we don’t joke with Godliness but we will also not allow anybody to use God to create a mess and confusion because God is not a God of confusion and God is not a God of disorderliness,” the IGP said.
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