Stop parading minors on TV as 'witches, wizards' – Opuni to pastors

A former General Secretary of the Christian Council of Ghana, Rev Dr Kwabena Opuni-Frimpong has charged pastors to cease displaying children on TV and social media as self-confessed witches and wizards.

According to him, the practice is breaking families apart and exposes the children involved to social stigma and abuse.

“We are having challenges where 13- and 14-year-old children are being paraded on television in the name of testimonies, [saying]: ‘I am a witch’”.

“Can that child get back to school? To do what in class after saying: ‘I killed my mother, I killed my father’? So, social protection must even be on the religious front,” he told Benjamin Akakpo on Class 91.3FM’s Executive Breakfast Show on Wednesday, 30 January 2019.

Dr Opuni, therefore, called on the Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection to clamp down on such preachers.