The founder and head pastor of The Makers House Chapel International, Dr. Michael Boadi Nyamekye, has expressed concern that hungry youth may turn to illegal mining, also known as galamsey. During an interview on Starr Chat with Bola on Thursday, Dr. Nyamekye emphasized that prayer alone cannot solve the issue of illegal mining.
“You don’t pray for somebody to get food when they are hungry. So if somebody is hungry you need to give them food, not prayer. You can’t go to the forest and pray that from today the boys should never come to the forest and stop mining, which is not going to happen.
“If the clerics have prayer to offer they should pray that God give the leadership ideas and wisdom to create more jobs and give solutions to societal problems so that people will not go back there,” Dr. Nyamekye stated.
He continued: “If people are hungry they will go back there and destroy the water bodies, destroy the forest reserves and all that because they need to survive. So the thing is not a prayer issue, to stop galamsey will not be found in the prayer equation, poverty will not be solved using the prayer equation, and anarchy in the society will not be solved using the prayer equation.
“We need to get people hope, and a sense of responsibility. We need to help other people find out that this is the way to go and let them be in line.”
Source: Ghana/Starrfm.com.gh/103.5FM
