Many Ghanaians took offence when one fetish priest by name, Nana Kwaku Bonsam, about a year ago, told the whole world he had supplied juju, an African supernatural power, to a number of pastors in the country.
Many more Ghanaians took him as a joke until he stormed the church auditorium of a pastor at Berekum to retrieve one of the said juju powers on the grounds that the pastor had refused to pay for it. It therefore comes as no big surprise when some very popular Kumasi-based pastors whose faces are always on TV are currently in an open display of juju battle, supernatural invocations and curses against each other. This is an abomination and the Church needs to bow its head in shame.
We call on the Christian Council and the several associations of churches to find their lost voices and call the said pastors to order. The silence from the clergy is even more vexatious than the conduct of the said juju pastors.
Is it not a shame that the very people who mount our church altars on Sundays to preach against juju have now lost the courage to speak against it when their colleague pastors patronise the same juju?
We see this silence on the part of the clergy as one of the many hypocrisies of the contemporary church. Indeed these latter day churches are more of liabilities than assets to society; yet they are the loudest to condemn the orthodox churches.
We see them spring up like mushrooms mostly under the leadership of some poverty-stricken school dropouts with questionable characters. Before one can say, �Jack Robinson�, these same poverty-stricken school dropouts start to live like Arabian Princes.
It is no more a secret that church business has become a lucrative venture and many pastors resort to all forms of occultic practices just to remain in business.
If there is no genuine Man of God in the country who can call these two juju pastors to order, then this thing called Christianity must indeed be a big joke.
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