General Overseer of the International Central Gospel Church (ICGC), Pastor\u00a0Mensa Otabil,\u00a0has admonished\u00a0Ghanaians to rise up and demand what is best from the state.<\/p>\n
Dr. Otabil says Ghanaians should resist the temptation of being content with the supply of what he calls minimal goods and services from the state.<\/p>\n
Speaking at a book launch in Accra, Dr. Otabil asked\u00a0Ghanaians not to settle for less.<\/p>\n
Everything annoys me now<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m not an old man but the older I get, the more annoying everything becomes. Because you ask yourself when this thing is every going to end, we move from one stage of deterioration to the other and we are supposed to appreciate it and love it. We can\u2019t love it, we can\u2019t just be happy because a road has been tarred.\u201d<\/p>\n We can\u2019t just be happy because we didn\u2019t have electricity now we have electricity. We can\u2019t be happy with minimals, we want maximals, we want the best and not the least. The citizens must have appetite for better because what happens is that, when you get pushed down, you get settled for being pushed down,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n State must not monopolize everything<\/strong><\/p>\n In his view, the state has practically monopolized every aspect of individual lives, urging Ghanaians to be responsible for themselves irrespective of what the state does or does not do.<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s too much impact of the state in the lives of the people\u2026we have to get to the point where it\u2019s not the state running the country, it\u2019s the people running the country, its entrepreneurs running the country, its businessmen [running the country].”<\/p>\n Dr. Otabil insisted that\u00a0\u201cthe state should get out of hospitals, the state should get out of the schools, the state should get out because they mess up everything they get involved in and get individuals to run the place.\u201d<\/p>\n It’s amazing doctors going on strike<\/strong><\/p>\n Pastor Otabil said \u201cisn\u2019t it amazing when Doctors go on strike, state doctors, state nurses, and they shut down the whole health system because there\u2019s no hospital in Ghana \u2013 private hospital \u2013 that employs 20 doctors?”<\/p>\n \u201cThe state has monopolized everything. For whatever purpose, they have hijacked the country from the citizens. And it\u2019s going to take entrepreneurs like you to wrestle with the state and take back from them what belongs to us the people and build our nation the way we want it to be built, and when we do that, then politicians will not be as effective controllers of the destiny of the people as they have become now, because as it is now, they determine how everything runs but it\u2019s going to take businessmen like you and I to make the difference.”<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By:citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n