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Report by Joseph Nana Yaw COBBINA
Hon. Prince Lamptey Tetteh, Chief Executive Officer of Pribet Group and Ghana’s Consular to Guinea-Bissau, has appealed to government to enact legislation regulating religious prophecies, particularly those predicting the deaths of prominent individuals.
Speaking in an interview following the August 6 helicopter crash that claimed the lives of eight senior officials, Hon. Tetteh described such prophecies as “disastrous” and harmful to national stability.
He noted that in the lead-up to the tragedy, some pastors and prophets publicly predicted the incident, which he believes fuels fear, panic, and mistrust in the country.
“We must end practices that will not help our future and will make our children suffer. In other countries, pastors don’t prophesy about the deaths of prominent people, especially in public. Here, it has become a yearly ritual, particularly on 31st night,” he lamented.
The Consular stressed that these predictions often serve the personal interests of those making them rather than the nation’s well-being.
“They never prophesy that the country will prosper or that someone will help others, but always negative prophecies. Some even pay people to execute their so-called predictions to make a name for themselves,” he alleged.
Calling on Parliament to act swiftly, Hon. Tetteh warned that if unregulated, such practices could trigger greater national crises within the next decade.
He further urged government to honour the eight officials who perished in the crash with a national statue, and also extended condolences to the families of the 16 students who died in a separate tragedy.
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