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Opinions of Friday, 19 August 2016

Columnist: Nana Asibey

Leave Bishop Obinim alone to do his work

Bishop Daniel ObinimBishop Daniel Obinim

I have tried to refrain myself from this Obinim's saga, but I just want to make few things clear to some Ghanaians.

Failure to make it will cause me a bellyache. It is a point I think those who are antagonizing Bishop Obinim illegitimately are missing.

The bible stipulates that, "Do not judge others, so that God will not judge you, for God will judge you in the same way as you judge others. And he will apply to you the same rules you apply to others. Why then do you look at the speck in your brothers’ eye, and pay no attention to the log in your own eye? Matthew 7:1-3"

I think this punishment shouldn't have happen in the church. To be precise, his residence will be ok before but this has gone viral already so people will criticize.

That was a wrong move on the side of Bishop though. But see, they never praise him for the money he gives out to those who need them; to the orphanage, widows and widowers, healing sickness that doctors can't.

But when they see something small, they don't ask for the detailed version... They just read the caption and downgrade him. I think some Ghanaians are suffering from selective amnesia.

Let's not forget that Bishop was playing his fatherly role. Let's not be ignorant about how he has invested in these two children. So they should arrest Bishop and who should cater for this poor boy and girl and other people around him? Let's not be in a haste to condemn him.

If one cannot partly agree to the decision of the bishop, she/he should as well fight democracy because through democracy people are sentenced to death by many means like hanging and electrocution !!!

We should condemn what triggered the bishop’s action not what he did. The earlier we try to see things the right way, the better for us.

Bishop Obinim has no case.