Opanin, reference your posted www.ghanaweb.com comment on the Friday, 1st August 2008 general news web-page article, entitled: "Men of God" vie for the presidency"
Opanin, it is simple really. Having seen how the family clans of some of our rulers have become foreign currency multi-millionaires in eight short years, they too feel that politics is the perfect personal wealth-creation vehicle.
And they aspire to owning a very large chunk of the wealth God has so kindly bestowed on Ghana, Opanin - for they have expensive tastes in everything!
Can you imagine the amount of labouring in the Lord's vineyard that is involved in their extraction of wealth out of armies of poor and desperate women looking for husbands and children; delusional individuals who feel their mother's are witches, who are stopping them from prospering, and whom consequently they want eliminated from this world and sent to heaven to help them from afar; sundry losers and the hopeless, seeking God's intervention in acquiring visas to enable them travel to, and live illegally, in those nations whose streets they hear are paved with gold, in the Americas the UK and the EU?
And can you imagine the endless number of 24/7 weeks; months and years of exhausting all-night prayer sessions, needed to extract sufficient wealth from all those emotionally-ill individuals?
Individuals, who in reality, actually only need to see a psycho-therapist, not a con-man/woman masquerading as an anointed man/woman of God, to see an end to their troubles?
Opanin, there is now a sea-change in what is a new and thriving industry, and the leading players are carving out individual niches, to enable the cleverest individuals amongst them, who dominate Ghana's only growth industry: setting up a charismatic church in a defunct-factory building, to make sufficient money - to enable them live in the style to which they have become accustomed.
And according to the cynics, that is why we are seeing a new trend of charismatic churches setting up countless universities; hospitals; and now, political parties, Opanin.
The smartest ones amongst our men/women of God, understand that politics beats all those humdrum tax-dodge wheezes, by zillions of miles, Opanin.
Plus, as seen plainly by the examples shown us under the two regimes we have experienced thus far, under the 1992 constitution, being in politics, unlike the dreary business of organising physically-punishing all-night prayer sessions to rip off poor emotionally-challenged losers, is a lot of fun!
For, whiles solemnly swearing not to ever rip your country off and doing exactly the opposite (largely through the agency of a myriad of offshore shell companies registered in the Channel Islands and the dodgy parts of the Caribbean, expressly for the purpose of collecting and hiding hard currency kickbacks, and in which your ownership is hidden in the names of nominees), you work throughout your tenure, in a glorious air-conditioned cocoon: and get "free-everything" perks!
Doesn't being amongst Ghana's ruling elite, beat being a mere self-styled Archbishop, shouting yourself hoarse, week after boring week of main Sunday church services?
What beats freebies paid for by the hapless Ghanaian taxpayer, such as: super-expensive posh cars; telephone access with IDD; posh official accommodation, renovated constantly: as your tastes change with time; the eternal adulation and respect of the very fools you are ripping off - and best of all, other men's wives and beautiful young things galore (i.e.HIV/AIDS-ridden girls): on all of whom you shower expensive gifts of luxury compact 4x4's; posh houses; holidays abroad; as well as open fat foreign currency bank accounts, for (and bless with an 'illegitimate' child or two, when you are in top form!)?
That, Opanin, is the allure of politics for our canny pastors - and don't be surprised if in a few years hence, they also end up as the "kingmakers" of Ghanaian politics: supplanting the tiresome megalomaniacs amongst our traditional rulers whose overweening ambition has seen them meddling in politics (contrary to all our constitutional edicts!), at the highest levels - opening up fissures along tribal lines in the Ghanaian polity in the process: and dividing a hitherto united and modern African nation. Hmm Ghana - ayeasem oo!
May God bless and protect our homeland Ghana, always. Long live freedom! Long live Ghana!
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