Dr Mensa Otabil has taken a ton of heat, especially from the ruling government, for some critical comments he has made against them in recent times, but he isn’t backing down.
Speaking at the book launch in Accra, Otabil said it is the duty of the church to question those in authority if they see things going awry. And if the consequence is for them to be tagged as political, then so be it.
“They want the church to take care of the weak, of the sick, and so far as we do that without questioning why the weak are weak and the sick are sick and the dying are dying; everybody is okay with the church.” Otabil said at the launch of a book authored by Most Rev Joseph Osei-Bonsu.
“But we cannot just continue taking care of the society’s problems. We must question why those problems exist in the first place. Are we going to be attacked for trying to ask ‘why’? Yes, we will be, and it’s necessary and it should be expected and it should be no surprise. It is part of our burden as Christians.”
Otabil had earlier used an illustration of why it is necessary for the church to speak up against society’s ills.
“I am reminded of a story of a church, which had its building very near to a dangerous part of the road and there were so many accidents. There was no ambulance, so the church came around and started an ambulance service and everybody hailed the church, but the accidents kept going on.
“The church people got tired of taking care of sick people and the dying and so they went to the city council and asked: ‘Why don’t you fix the road?’. And immediately the church was accused of being political because now they were condemning the people in authority. And I think that is the problem of our society.”
Mensa Otabil came under fire from the NDC recently, with some members tagging him as supporting the NPP- after he called for Ghanaians to hold leaders accountable.
 

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