Archbishop Nicolas Duncan Williams, the Normal Overseer of the Motion Religion Chapel International, has referred to as for a nationwide imaginative and prescient to function a improvement blueprint.
He defined that this may allow the nation “keep away from groping in darkness in its improvement aspirations.”
Archbishop Duncan Williams made the decision when he delivered a phrase of exhortation on the Speaker of Parliament’s First Breakfast Prayer Assembly of the Ninth Parliament of the Parliamentary Christian Fellowship (PCF) in Accra, on Tuesday.
He famous: “till Ghana has a nationwide imaginative and prescient the place all political events will carry collectively their manifestos for Parliament to form and align with our nationwide imaginative and prescient for 25 years or extra, we are going to continue to stroll in darkness”.
He suggested Members of Parliament (MPs) to place apart their political variations, politicisation of points and work in direction of a sustainable nationwide improvement.
He cited nations like Rwanda, China, India, and Singapore that had between 50 and 100 years national imaginative and prescient to drive their development plans.
Archbishop Duncan Williams defined {that a} nationwide imaginative and prescient would stop the vicious cycle of waste of assets, and guarantee continuation of the nation’s improvement trajectory, regardless of which political social gathering that will be in workplace.
He urged the federal government to create a conducive surroundings for the youth to develop, to keep away from their every day visits to numerous embassies for visas to journey exterior for greener pastures.
Archbishop Nicolas Duncan Williams requested Ghanaians to not take the peace within the nation without any consideration, saying “the very fact of the matter is that I’ve by no means felt peace and being at residence like I do once I arrived on the Kotoka Internationwide Airport. It doesn’t matter the privileges which are given to me and honours bestowed upon me”.
Speaker of Parliament, Mr Alban S. Ok. Bagbin, requested parliamentarians to eschew private egoism, indiscipline, and superiority advanced and exhibit exemplary management to advertise unity, more healthy and stronger parliamentary work for sustainable nationwide improvement.
Mr Bagbin famous that Parliament was the bedrock of democracy, and never an avenue for politicking or non secular fanaticism, and urged parliamentarians to be guided by nationwide curiosity.
The Speaker requested them to conduct themselves correctly in order that they could possibly be remembered for doing the best issues and never professionalmoters of brute and indecency.
“Your legacy should encourage niceness, set an instance for the youth and be a catalyst for change,” he suggested the parliamentarians.
The assembly was underneath the auspices of the Speaker, which was held on the theme: “A greater and a stronger parliament”.
In attendance have been MPs, ministers of State and the clergy, Emmanuel Kwasi Bedzrah, President of the Parliamentary Christian Fellowship, Kwaku Asante-Boateng, Vice President of the Parliamentary Christian Fellowship, Ebenezer Djietrior, the Clerk to Parliament, and Voices of Democracy.
The Speaker’s Prayer assembly is organised by the PCF in the beginning of every assembly of Parliament, to commit the Home into the arms of God and search divine steering. – GNA