{"id":738710,"date":"2022-01-07T05:50:21","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T05:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/07\/ndc-mp-tackles-christian-council-on-silence-over-police-threat-on-prophecies\/"},"modified":"2022-01-07T05:50:21","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T05:50:21","slug":"ndc-mp-tackles-christian-council-on-silence-over-police-threat-on-prophecies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/07\/ndc-mp-tackles-christian-council-on-silence-over-police-threat-on-prophecies\/","title":{"rendered":"NDC MP tackles Christian Council on silence over police \u2018threat\u2019 on prophecies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/74140992.295.jpg\" alt=\"Rockson-Nelson Dafemeakpor is MP for South Dayi\" title=\"Rockson-Nelson Dafemeakpor is MP for South Dayi\" width=\"295\" height=\"314\" \/> <span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Rockson-Nelson Dafemeakpor is MP for South Dayi<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-touch-callout: none; -moz-user-select: none; -ms-user-select: none; user-select: none;\">\n<p style=\"clear:right\" id=\"article-123\"><b>Police to begin prosecuting &#8216;doom prophecy&#8217; offenders<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Offenders liable to 5-year jail term<\/p>\n<p>Renowned men of God adopt cunning prophetic strategy<\/p>\n<p>Member of Parliament, MP, for South Dayi, Rockson-Nelson Dafeamekpor, has lashed out at the leadership of the Christian Council together with the Peace Council and the Pentecostal churches over the seeming \u201cculture of silence\u201d that has gagged them over the Ghana Police Service&#8217;s recent statements cautioning men of God against doom prophecies.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the groups have been silent over the matter as result of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) being at the helm of affairs of the country.<\/p>\n<p>He stressed that the same would not have been the situation if such statements from the police were made under the tenure of the National Democratic Congress (NDC).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHerrrr. This Govt can say anything these days and get away with it. The Christian Council; the Peace Council &amp; the Pentecostal churches leadership will read this &amp; keep quiet because it is under Npp. Imagine this letter was written by police &amp; directed at Christendom under Ndc\u201d he tweeted.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">Herrrr. This Govt can say anything these days and get away with it. <\/p>\n<p>The Christian Council; the Peace Council &amp; the Pentecostal churches leadership will read this &amp; keep quiet because it is under Npp. Imagine this letter was written by police &amp; directed at Christendom under Ndc <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nb3FAjUIv8\">pic.twitter.com\/nb3FAjUIv8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rockson-Nelson Dafeamekpor, Esq. MP. (@etsedafeamekpor) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/etsedafeamekpor\/status\/1479183996542193667?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 6, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Ghana Police Service has in recent times declared war against prophecies that could potentially create fear and panic amongst the populace.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of last year\u2019s 31st December watchnight service, the police issued a stern warning to Men of God to desist from such prophecies.<\/p>\n<p>Citing the country\u2019s laws, it said that, \u201cit is a crime for a person to publish or reproduce a statement, rumour or report which is likely to cause fear and alarm to the public or to disturb the public peace, where that person has no evidence to prove that the statement, rumour or report is true\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It also noted that persons found to be on the wrong side of this law could be liable to a 5-year term of imprisonment.<\/p>\n<p>In its latest statement on prophecies, the police says it is analysing some prophetic video footages it had received to prosecute the offenders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFollowing this initiative, multiple video footages have come to our attention regarding the communication of prophecies on the night of 31st December, 2021.  Police have begun analysing these videos to ascertain whether any of them is in breach of the laws of the country and anybody found culpable will be put before court,\u201d part of the statement read.<\/p>\n<p>The statement also urged prophets of the Gospel to continuously observe the ban on doom prophecies on a daily basis, failure which the relevant sanctions will be applied to culprits.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe would like to caution that, the law on publication of information including prophecies that have the tendency to cause fear and panic or put people\u2019s lives in danger, is not limited to 31st December only, but should be adhered to on a daily basis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wish to reiterate that the law and the police are not against religious practices of the performance of religious doctrines and beliefs such as prophecies. However, if such information is communicated publicly and undermine the laws of the state, the relevant laws and sanctions will be applied,\u201d the statement concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Last year\u2019s watchnight service passed away silently without the usual doom prophecies.<\/p>\n<p>However, some men of God such as Reverend Owusu Bempah prophesied in a \u201ccoded\u201d language with Prophet Nigel Gaisie also prophesying about a country called \u201cUmuofia\u201d which had a similar bearing to Ghana.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rockson-Nelson Dafemeakpor is MP for South Dayi Police to begin prosecuting &#8216;doom prophecy&#8217; offenders Offenders liable to 5-year jail term Renowned men of God adopt cunning prophetic strategy Member of Parliament, MP, for South Dayi, Rockson-Nelson Dafeamekpor, has lashed out at the leadership of the Christian Council together with the Peace Council and the Pentecostal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":218589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-738710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738710","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=738710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}