Blakk Rasta got Rev Dr. Kwadwo Bempah wrong—Pastor Barnabas Chimbur
A Bolgatanga-based Assemblies of God Pastor, Pastor Chimbur Barnabas has backed up Rev. Dr. Kwadwo Bempah after advising his congregants to be cautious of the poor people they help. Apexnewsgh.com report The statement made by the Man of God has generated some amount of criticism across the continent and one of those personalities who took the Rev. Bempah on was a Ghanaian artiste and radio personality Blakk Rasta. Rev Dr. Bempah, during one of his sermons, advised kind-hearted people to be cautious of the poor people they help. He explained that not every poor person deserves to receive help. Rev. Dr. Bempah said nobody knows the real reason some people are wallowing in poverty as some of them could be enduring the punishment of Satan. The clergyman stressed that they are simply suffering the consequences of bad decisions they made in the past.However, it appears his sermon did not go well for Blakk Rasta. According to Blakk Rasta, “when they say give it to God, It means give it to the church and the church is the pastor and so right now, there is a competition between the poor and the church, the poor and the pastor. The pastors are not even happy that we are giving to the poor”. He went further to say, “The church is now fighting the poor. They prefer having the poor coming to pay tithe and they will pray for them to be rich”. Meanwhile, responding to Black Rasta, a Bolgatanga-based Assemblies of God Pastor, Pastor Chimbur Barnabas said Blakk Rasta took Rev. Bempa’s sermon in the wrong context because in the video Rev. Dr. Bempah said some of the poor people are suffering as a result of Satan and other reasons, which means they are suffering as a result of the decision they made or the choice they made. “…he also went further to say, you need discernment in order to give to the poor. These are very clear statements which means that, is not every poor person you have mercy upon. Pastor Chimbur said. “I want to make it clear that there’s no Pastor who loves the poor like Rev. Dr. Bempah, he has helped the poor so much that no one can even tell and he is still helping the poor. So, making this statement doesn’t make him someone who hates the poor. He was just speaking the truth and the reality on the ground”. He stressed “Rev. Dr. Bempah is a very generous man who gives without holding back. So, it cannot be true of what Blakk Rasta was saying”. “As I speak to you, In Bolgatanga i know of some people who stand by the road or go around the station and beg. Then, in the evening you will see them sitting at a beer spot drinking beer. Do you help such people? I also know about one of my uncles who was very rich in the early 90s but now he is very poor because he used his money following women and drinking. Now the money has finished. So, such people do you consider them as those that really need help? The moment you helped them, they go back to their old action. So, you don’t need to help such people. He stressed “I like Blakk Rasta and I have been following him as his fan since 2006 but I think he has gotten this one wrong. Am also happy he is a man of the book, he knows the bible. He should have understood when Dr. Kwadwo Bempah said you need discernment. It is not every poor person you give, you may see the person as poor but you may not know that he has an agenda”. Some of them collect the money you give them and go juju places for ritual Purposes. So you will think you are helping someone who is poor but you are nurturing him for your destruction tomorrow. However that is not to rule out the fact that some poor people genuinely need help.. He maintained, that Rev. Bempah is not against giving to the poor but he said you need discernment to give to the poor. Pastor Chimbur further made reference to Mark 12: 17 where he stated that Jesus was clear by saying give Caesar what belongs to Caesar and to God what belongs to God. And Jesus was also very compassionate to the poor by saying whoever gives to the poor lends to God. Source: Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana For publication please kindly contact us on 0256336062 or Email apexnewsgh@gmail.com
Mr. Ablakwa receives NABCO petition to Parliament
Members of the Aggrieved NaBCo Trainees Association have petitioned parliament over their nine-month unpaid allowance which, they say, has send some of them to their early grave due to hardship. The leadership group petitioned parliament through Mr. Samuel Okudzeto the MP for North Tongu, in Accra on Tuesday, 13 December 2022.In the petition, they appealed to the lawmaker to impress upon the Speaker of Parliament to, as a matter of urgency, order Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta, before Christmas Day, to pay all the arrears NaBCo trainees are owed and other outstanding arrears since the year 2019. Source: Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana For publication please kindly contact us on 0256336062 or Email apexnewsgh@gmail.com
Pray For NDC Before They Kill Themselves – Presidential Staffer
By Kritiq (self media writer) A Presidential Staffer, Samuel Bryan Buabeng has called on Ghanaians to intercede with prayers for happenings in the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC). He says the brewing tension between the National Youth Organiser and the National Communications Officer of the party could cause serious unrest in the NDC to the extent that it may not even exist by 2024 to contest the general elections “Pray for the NDC. If care is not taken, they will kill themselves and destroy the party before 2024, he tweeted on Tuesday, December 13, 2022.Genesis of the fightThe newly elected National Youth Organiser, George Opare Addo and Sammy Gyamfi, the National Communications Officer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) are at loggerheads, pelting each other with scathing allegations. In the lead up to the NDC’s Women and Youth delegates’ conference, Sammy Gyamfi openly supported and campaigned for Brogya Genfi to unseat Opare Addo as the party’s National Youth Organiser. This seems to have created a friction between the two national executives, resulting in attacks and counter attacks from supporters from either followers.George Opare threw the first shot after he accused Sammy Gyamfi of having unexplained wealth with a plush mansion at Airport Hill residential area. “Mugabe, ask Sammy Gyamfi how he built a house at Airport Hills, what work does he do?”“As for this election, it was that Airport Hills small boy I contested not Brogya, I said today I will mention names… I contested Sammy Gyamfi and I won. “He is a small boy. There is nothing he can match me on, I have lived life well. He is a small boy.“Yes, Sammy Gyamfi has now become an obstacle and in my way and this my second term I will not joke! I will cut cut away anybody who stands in my way as an obstacle. It is only action that we will see. Action action action….” Opare Addo made these remarks in an interview with Mugabe Maase on Power FM last Monday, December 12, 2022. However, Sammy Gyamfi has, in a tweet, asked Pablo to stop the attack on his person because he committed no crime by supporting Brogya Genfi to unseat him. “@georgeoaddo I committed no crime in supporting @BrogyaGenfi over you in the just-ended NYO elections. If this is the route you want to take, then bring it on. At the right time, you will get a befitting response to all the lies and gibberish you have been spewing since yesterday”, he tweeted.
“The accused did not have the intention to defraud” Court clears Ghana First Company Limited
Ghana First Company Limited has been cleared of any wrongdoing against contractors working on its company’s toilet projects across the country. This is according to the court verdict intercepted by apexnewsgh.com which was signed by Nana Adoma Osei a Senior State Attorney for Attorney General. Apexnewsgh.com report Background Ghana First, as a sanitation provider company, started a project of constructing information technology-based places of convenience across Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assembly’s in marketplaces, lorry parks, and needy areas throughout the country and along the way, there was a misunderstanding. The misunderstanding between Ghana First Company Limited and its contractors started way back in 2019 with some agitations by contractors who claimed they have executed the project to a certain level and needed some money to continue. Following the misunderstanding between the two groups, the contractors reported Ghana First CEO to the police and he was invited by the police on March 16, 2021, and upon arrival, the CEO of Ghana First Company Mr. Frank Akuley was arrested and detained. However, after some days of being on remand, he was granted bail and was asked to report to the police every Tuesday and Thursday. Information gathered said aside that, The CEO properties which includes cars, passport, and accounts were ceased. Meaning he has no power over them. Meanwhile, after all these years of court battling between two parties, a verdict by Nana Adoma Osei a Senior State Attorney for Attorney General intercepted by this platform says, “According to the accused, due to the fact that MMDAs delayed in producing the land documents for them to submit to GCB for the release of funds for the company’s operations, it became necessary to generate funds to ran the company. He stated that it was the reason why the company started charging 2% of the contract sum from the contractors from June 2018 to the first quarter of 2019 which was used to fund operations”. The verdict further states: “In order to successfully sustain a charge of defrauding by false pretences against the accused, there must be evidence of intention to defraud. However, from the evidence available in the docket, the accused dealt with the complainants on the basis of the MOU, which at all material times was an existing and binding MOU”.“Accordingly, the accused never made a false statement of fact when he told the complainants that he had funding from Thermodul.” The ruling said “The MOU was terminated by Thermodul on 2nd April 2019 at a time when a lot of complainants had already entered into a contract with Ghana First on the basis of MOU”. However, concluding on the verdict, the State Attorney says: “A careful and painstaking evaluation of the docket reveals that the accused did not have the intention to defraud. The issues in contention are civil nature. The parties are therefore advised to explore the option of ironing their issues out in a civil suit. “From the forgoing, we disrecommend the prosecution of the accused person. Please, do not charge him with any offence”. “Your FINANCIAL FORENSIC UNIT Duplicate Case Docket R.O No. 39/2021 is hereby returned to you”. The ruling stated Source: Apexnewsgh.com/GhanaFor please kindly contact us on 0256336062 or Email apexnewsgh@gmail.com