Ghana: Methodist Bishop Wants Martyrs Day Abolished

Ghana: Methodist Bishop Wants Martyrs Day Abolished
Rt. Rev. Prof. Osei Sarfo Kantanka

Rt. Rev. Prof. Osei Sarfo Kantanka

Kumasi — (THE CHRONICLE) THE METHODIST Bishop of the Kumasi Diocese, Rt. Rev. Prof. Osei Sarfo Kantanka has called on the Ghana Bar Association (GBA) to consider abolishing the annual observation of the Martyr’s Day in memory of the three judges who were brutally murdered on June 30, 1982.

Three High Court judges, including Mr. Justice Fred Poku Sarkodie, Mrs. Justice Cecilia Koranteng Addow and Mr. Justice Kwadwo Agyei Agyepong were cruelly murdered in 1982.

The Methodist prelate has urged the Bar Association to forgive and forget the circumstances that led to the institution of the day and rather find ways of promoting and moving the country forward.

Rt. Rev. Sarfo Kantanka, who made the call at a Memorial Service in commemoration of the 31st Martyrs Day at the Ayigya Bethel Methodist Church, near the KNUST in Kumasi, noted that the country cannot be developed on the premises of political history and tendencies that create divide the people.

According to the Methodist Bishop, the event should not be promoted and instilled in the minds of subsequent generations because it would not move the country forward noting that nothing can come out from the annual observation of the memorial service for the murdered High Court Judges.

Rt. Rev. Prof. Sarfo Kantanka has, therefore, suggested that something monumental must rather be done to remember the murdered High Court instead of the memorial services.

He called on all Ghanaians to pray to God that Ghana do not become a fending nation for the unborn ones to come and follow.

Mr. Yaw Acheampong Boafo, Ashanti GBA president entreated everyone to listen to what the Methodist Bishop has said because what has been going on especially on the airwaves are point to unnecessary beating of war drums.

He promised to convey the Methodist Bishop’s recommendation to GBA council meeting for consideration and necessary action.

The immediate past Ashanti GBA president, Mr. Michael Gyan Owusu, however, stressed that

“We need to remember the lessons of the past, to serve as guide for the futures, other than that the martyrs of the rule of law would have died in vain”.

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