Ghanaians are now living in ‘captivity’ – Catholic Bishop cries

The Catholic Bishop of Wiawso Diocese, Bishop Joseph Francis Kweku Essien has described the current situation Ghana as a country and its citizens are facing as a state of “captivity in our own land”.

In a video cited by MynewsGH.com, the Catholic Bishop in pain chided leaders of the country including chiefs letting them know that they have failed to protect the interest of the people in the country.

According to observation the Catholic Bishop has made, Ghanaians have become “slaves” in their own land while in “captive” as well.

Bishop Francis Kweku Essien argued that, citizens of Ghana should have gotten a better living looking at the mineral deposits in the country but because of mismanagement on the part of its leaders, citizens are now suffering.

“We are in captivity in the sense that, a country like ours, a country which mines gold, diamond, manganese, bauxite, a country which has timber, which produces cocoa in abundance. And we have a country which is also now having oil in commercial quantity. But go to our hospitals, or many of our hospitals, if not all of them, and see what is happening there. Pregnant women lying down, lying down. Are we not in captivity, are we not in exile. He retorted.

However, in the case of health, most health facilities in the country have currently been hit with no “bed syndrome” where most patients are unable to access health care service because there are no or few beds available in our hospitals.

In his video at a sermon, the man of God chastised leaders for failing the citizenry in developing the country Ghana.

He further called on opinion leaders, politicians, traditional rulers to seek for the betterment of the citizens first.

Bishop Kweku Essien who seems to have broad knowledge, in his video sighted a small town in the Western Region of the country describing it as a place “infested with Chinese”.

“There is a place called Wassa Akropong. The town at the moment has gotten a new name known as Wassa China. How did Wassa Akropong get that name?

He attributed his argument to the fact that, Chinese nationals have taken over the small town in almost all business activities supposed to be reserved for the indigenous people.



“The place is infested with Chinese. Chinese are now roasting plantain and selling sugar cane. These Chinese are using our people”, he added. Addressing leaders of the area on the issue, Bishop Essien chided leaders asking whether we are not aware.. “There are assemblymen and MPs. . There are chiefs and they see it. It is like nobody can talk about it. For what gain we are getting only God knows. So we are slaves in our own land”. He stressed.