{"id":1263815,"date":"2022-12-10T13:35:17","date_gmt":"2022-12-10T13:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/10\/npp-mps-pontius-pilate-type-of-washing-hands-off-ofori-atta-censure-vote-an-insult-to-jesus-arthur-kennedy\/"},"modified":"2022-12-10T13:35:17","modified_gmt":"2022-12-10T13:35:17","slug":"npp-mps-pontius-pilate-type-of-washing-hands-off-ofori-atta-censure-vote-an-insult-to-jesus-arthur-kennedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/10\/npp-mps-pontius-pilate-type-of-washing-hands-off-ofori-atta-censure-vote-an-insult-to-jesus-arthur-kennedy\/","title":{"rendered":"NPP MPs&#8217; Pontius Pilate type of washing hands off Ofori-Atta censure vote an insult to Jesus &#8211; Arthur Kennedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Arthur-Kennedy.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\">\n<p>A stalwart of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has criticised the party\u2019s MPs who staged a walkout during the vote on the censure motion against Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the NPP MPs walked out of the chamber minutes before the vote on the censure motion could be taken, and Majority Leader, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu who led the walkout, said \u201c\u2026. Like Pontius Pilate, we will wash our hands off this,\u201d while a colleague sprayed sanitiser on his hands.<\/p>\n<p>But reacting to the conduct of the NPP MPs, Dr. Arthur Kennedy described their action as an insult to Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that, unlike the MPs, Pontius Pilate in the Holy Bible was innocent and washed his hands off an innocent soul, Jesus Christ who was about to be killed.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the MPs in this case, were not washing their hands off any innocent conduct by the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, therefore their conduct was disrespectful to Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey washed their hands \u2018like Pontius Pilate\u2019 and in doing that they really insulted Jesus. You know Ken is a person of faith so I know he knows this.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"LPjLSdOcbf8\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Censure motion: NPP MPs&#039; Pontious pilate type of washing hand an insult to Jesus - Arthur Kennedy\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LPjLSdOcbf8?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>\u201cPontius Pilate was innocent, he has not done anything so Pontius Pilate was washing his hands off an innocent man, Jesus was innocent and he believes these people were going to kill an innocent man.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo say that the Finance Minister \u2018is innocent\u2019 is a little bit of stretching the facts,\u201d he told Samson Anyenini on <strong>Newsfile<\/strong>, Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Touching on the claim by the Minority that the Finance Minister has used some monies from the Contingency Fund for the National Cathedral, Arthur Kennedy said Jesus Christ would have been furious with the Minister if he were to be on earth.<\/p>\n<p>He defended his view by referencing a bible quotation that reads \u201cWhatever you do to the least of my brothers, that you do unto me.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-myjoyonline-com wp-block-embed-myjoyonline-com\"\/>\n<p>He explained that Jesus\u2019 anger would have stemmed from the fact that the contingency fund is meant to support Ghanaians in the many areas the country is lacking and not for the construction of a National Cathedral.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Jesus was sitting on this table, he would be against it\u2026people will look at the schools you show, look at mothers who deliver and bleed to death, look at ambulances that have no fuel, look at health facilities that we cannot support and then the people who have been put in charge of this country to do God\u2019s work here on earth will decide that they want a cathedral that people who cannot feed themselves, who cannot heal themselves, cannot clothe themselves, can go and praise God. What kind of God will do that?\u201d he quizzed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DISCLAIMER: <\/strong>The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A stalwart of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has criticised the party\u2019s MPs who staged a walkout during the vote on the censure motion against Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta. On Thursday, the NPP MPs walked out of the chamber minutes before the vote on the censure motion could be taken, and Majority Leader, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1263816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1263815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1263815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1263815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1263815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1263815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}