Jasikan, July 02, GNA - The Reverend Gideon Akoto, General Overseer of Gracefield Worship Centre in Accra on Wednesday called on the people of the Volta Region to eschew idol worship and demonic activities to benefit from God's supernatural grace and dominion.

He said these ungodly activities were a drawback to the accelerated socio-economic advancement of the region, and "until these barriers are broken the region's development plans would be haphazard". The Rev Akoto made the call at the maiden non-denominational "Volta Region Prayer Rally" at Jasikan, which was initiated by Evangelist Godwin Baako-Boafo, President and Founder of the Living Word Foundation Incorporated.

The Rev. Akoto said soonest the negative stigmatization attached to the region as a place to seek occultism and black powers, juju, and voodoo could be transformed into becoming the solution to the world's problem, with huge capital inflows. He was optimistic that the region would be emancipated and would emerge as a financially buoyant area, under a supernatural dominion, which would make the mineral and oil revolution in the country a reality.

Evangelist Godwin Baako-Boafo, initiator of the rally, said the region abounds in natural resources especially minerals and oil. He urged the people to remove the human factor from the region's development paradigm and seek God's intervention as the only way to unearth its hidden treasures.

Evangelist Baako-Boafo said "depending on man is like being under a curse", adding that governments and politicians would come and leave but the development of the region would remain a mirage if the people do not place reliance on God.

He asked for repentance across board to facilitate the supernatural reversal of the region to its rightful position. There were intercessory prayers to breakdown all idol and ancestral strongholds, demonic forces and illegal occupants of the region's landmass, which continue to visit havoc, poverty and underdevelopment on the people. 02. 07. 09