Speak up when things are not going well in my government – Mahama to clergy
President John Dramani Mahama has encouraged clergy members to publicly criticize his administration if they feel that something is wrong.
The president told the Volta Region Christian Ecumenical Council of Churches on Wednesday, January 22, 2025, when they paid him a courtesy call at the Jubilee House in Accra that if they expressed their disapproval of undesirable events, his government would not try to retaliate.
He insisted that the government would accept the opinions professed by the priests.
“I urge you that when things are not going well, you’ll be able to raise your voices and draw our attention to it. The government I lead is not an intolerant government and if people speak and criticize us, we are not going to harass them and give them threatening phone calls. So, I believe that the church can speak freely, the media can speak freely and we will take it as a positive instrument for correcting whatever they are referring to.”
President Mahama described the clergy as the “conscience of the nation”.
