{"id":46281,"date":"2023-03-20T09:42:44","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T09:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/03\/20\/alpha-hour-is-stressing-our-women-ghanaian-politician-argues\/"},"modified":"2023-03-20T09:42:44","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T09:42:44","slug":"alpha-hour-is-stressing-our-women-ghanaian-politician-argues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/03\/20\/alpha-hour-is-stressing-our-women-ghanaian-politician-argues\/","title":{"rendered":"Alpha Hour is stressing our women &#8211; Ghanaian politician argues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<h4 id=\"h-this-isn-t-the-first-time-a-public-figure-has-openly-expressed-his-or-her-disgust-for-the-famous-midnight-prayer-session-spearheaded-by-pastor-elvis-agyemang\"><strong>This isn\u2019t the first time a public figure has openly expressed his or her disgust for the famous midnight prayer session spearheaded by Pastor Elvis Agyemang.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>The latest to trash the relevance of Alpha Hour is an NPP chieftain who is the CEO of the National Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programme.<\/p>\n<p>As argued by the atsute politician Mr Kofi Ofosu Nkansah, Alpha Hour only puts unnecessary pressure on our women because it steals their precious sleep.<\/p>\n<p>In a controversial Facebook post that has since gone viral, he stated that women come home late from work but have to stay up and join Alpha Hour and pray which starts at 12am every day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO:<\/strong> <strong>Twene Jonas curses Alpha Hour pastor<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-1 wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" data-id=\"264052\" alt=\"Pastor Elvis Agyemang Alpha Hour\" class=\"wp-image-264052\"  data-lazy- src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Elvis-Agyemang-Alpha-Hour.jpg\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" data-id=\"264052\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Elvis-Agyemang-Alpha-Hour.jpg\" alt=\"Pastor Elvis Agyemang Alpha Hour\" class=\"wp-image-264052\"  \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n<p>They then get up to do housework and get their children ready for school, and the cycle continues.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kofi Ofosu Nkansah wrote;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alpha Hour and other midnight Prayers sessions \u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Our ladies (mostly) close from work tired, they will keep wake and pray from 12 to 1am or beyond. Wake up at dawn to do house chores and prepare their kids for School. Just adding more stress to their lives. Unnecessary stress I think.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why does it have to be after 12 midnight<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO:\u00a0Twene Jonas insults Alpha Hour pastor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghpage.com\/alpha-hour-is-stressing-our-women-ghanaian-politician-argues\/274073\/about:blank\" width=\"500\" height=\"257\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\" data-rocket-lazyload=\"fitvidscompatible\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fweb.facebook.com%2Fofosunkansah%2Fposts%2Fpfbid02ffe2zVAdA9gFZyg4q79D3EUz82mfqn3wiR6xSAckNPZgwNT5PeM1XgwuEUbM1oSEl&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=500\"><\/iframe><noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fweb.facebook.com%2Fofosunkansah%2Fposts%2Fpfbid02ffe2zVAdA9gFZyg4q79D3EUz82mfqn3wiR6xSAckNPZgwNT5PeM1XgwuEUbM1oSEl&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"257\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p> As expected, this stance has earned him harsh criticism from Apharians.<\/p>\n<p>At the beginning of the publication of the article, Mr Kofi\u2019s post against Alpha Hour had garnered over 500 likes and over 900 comments.<\/p>\n<p>Below are some of the popular submissions gathered under the viral anti-Alpha hour post.<\/p>\n<p>Effah Sakyi Julius \u2013 <strong>Life is about choices, live your life and allow others to be\u2026.there are some who goes to clubs, pubs, bars etc too \u2026..Allow people to be!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sandra Ewool\u00a0\u00a0\u2013 <strong>This is a clear case of crying more than the bereaved. They are the only ones who can indicate if they are stressed or otherwise. Others close from work too and make time for all manner of things. Obiaaaa nni ne lane mu.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Krobea Asante Kotoko \u2013 <strong>Prior to Alpha Hour people were doing midnight prayers and moreover midnight prayers are voluntary.Those who know the families they come from don\u2019t under rate such prayers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Clara Kowlaga Kasser-Tee\u00a0\u2013 <strong>These women can\u2019t even make their own choices on when to pray in peace. You should probably be more interested in the much greater stresses that drove them there in the first place \u2013 causes. Me thinks that is where to look if your interest is to address their stress.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nana Ama Boamah <strong>\u2013 In as much as I join Alpha hour sometimes too, I think the points\u00a0Kofi Ofosu\u00a0raised are valid and I wish people would rather focus on that and not comment based on emotional sentiments to Alpha hour after all the post is about all other midnight prayers as well.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>No one is stopping you to pray but don\u2019t stress yourself so much just to do that because the health implication comes back to affect us all.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By all means pray but The main point is \u201cwhy must it be after 12\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Stephen Kenneth Nakujah \u2013<strong> If you don\u2019t want our ladies to be stressed up, please tell your government to increase their salaries. Fuel and everything keep going up but salaries remain stand still. That is their biggest stress. When your salary is good, your prayer requests will decrease.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Alpha Hour is not mandatory!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wise King Solomon II \u2013<strong> Some people go through all the stresses of the day but instead of sleeping, they Facebook until the early hours of the next day. How about them? I guess the issue here is about choices, not necessarily about midnight prayers or Alpha Hour.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO:\u00a0My elder sister has been paying me for the past 6 years \u2013 Pastor Elvis Agyemang<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; &#8211; This isn\u2019t the first time a public figure has openly expressed his or her disgust for the famous midnight prayer session spearheaded by Pastor Elvis Agyemang. The latest to trash the relevance of Alpha Hour is an NPP chieftain who is the CEO of the National Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programme. 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