2 Peter 2:1 – ‘But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction’ – King James version
In recent times, the Christian community all over the world is witnessing what I call increasing ‘scandalous’ scandals involving most people who choose to call themselves ‘men of God’. As to if they are truly men of GOD, the end will surely justify that. The Ghanaian Christian community is perhaps one of the hardest hit. This is causing a lot of uproars and people are trying to give all kinds of reasons and meanings to recent happenings. I also have my own reasons to whatever is happening to the church of God.
When you own a very good desktop computer or laptop and it starts to malfunction, one thing comes to mind first. There must have been some virus invasion to your computer’s system. In that case, the best action to take is get a good antivirus with its current update. You then carefully subject your whole system to a thorough scan. If your anti-virus is really a good one, it is likely to catch a lot of viruses with strange names and gives you details about the level of threat they pose to your computer. You are then given options as to what to do with them. Among the options are ‘quarantine’, ‘heal’, ‘delete’ among others. The best option is to delete all those worms that can cause great harm to your computer.
The church of God today faces the same predicament that any technological device faces today; viruses that pretend to be computer-friendly documents. You open them and your whole system is in a mess. Today many people parade themselves as men and women of God. In reality however, they just use the Holy name of God and His son Jesus Christ to pursue hidden agenda known only to them. They have succeeded in deceiving millions of people and have polluted thousands of otherwise genuine men of God. So typical of any virus in this computer age. The church of God is under immense attack and corruption from these viruses. Many people are beginning to lose faith altogether.
Just as any concerned owner of an expensive laptop computer will behave, God cannot look on as these so-called men of God destroy His church. HE cannot look on as many lives are corrupted by the activities of these ones. HE will definitely take an action. I see the scandals rocking churches in Ghana today from that angle. I see it as God’s antivirus performing a carefully calculated scan on the church. People who pretend to be what they are not are gradually being exposed. Not to behave in the ‘holier than thou’ manner’, let me say that most people who put on the white neck clerical today do not deserve them. Also not to sound judgmental, all I can say is, let us all look up to the author and finisher of the Christian faith; that is Jesus Christ. When you put your trust in a so-called man of God and you wake up to hear that he is a pedophile, it might just be disastrous for you.
The good Book says ‘by their fruits we shall know them’. If after the antivirus has exposed these viruses ‘eating’ all manner of files in the system of the church including innocent ladies especially singers; you still decide to seek the help of those people, it is up to you. All that is happening to some so-called men of God in Ghana today should be a wake up call to their colleagues still in the business of corrupting the church of God. The scan is on. The anti-false prophet scan is on. It will be your turn soon. Some viruses like obinime.exe, jesusonetouch.worm, love.exe/worm and the like seem to have been caught in the web. GOD’S ANTI-VIRUS IS AT WORK.
Friday, October 28, 2011
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
KNUST SCHOOL FEEDING PROGRAMME
KNUST SCHOOL FEEDING PROGRAMME
… SRC BEST INNOVATION SO FAR?
This year’s SRC week celebrations saw a lot of innovations that still keep fascinating and at the same time irritating a number of level headed students around. It was the first time SRC Week was celebrated concurrently with a hall’s week celebration. It was the first time, a girlfriend of the SRC president was actively involved in the planning and execution of all activities embodied in the programme. I think an amendment should be made, so that our constitution will recognise the office of the first lady. One particular activity that has kept my mouth agape and my fingers still scratching my head is what our very smart SRC decided to name ‘SRC FOOD BAZAAR’.
According to the Encarta dictionary, ‘BAZAAR’ means sales of goods to raise money for charity, often held outdoors. So who was fooling who, when the SRC promised to organise a food bazaar and ended up organising a school feeding programme? Whose idea was it? What rationale was behind such an event? What if even half of the student populace had decided to attend that event? Was there any sinister motive behind the scenes? Until some of these questions are answered in good faith, some of us can only bow our heads in shame and disappointment as we take our last steps out of KNUST.
The Yaw Oduro led administration had all the power and the goodwill to organise a food bazaar, which could have even brought few coins into the SRC coffers. It is just a matter of inviting food vendors to converge at the Royal Parade grounds and selling their products at subsidised prices. People will still patronise it. Even if the people in charge did not have a fair idea of what a food bazaar is, they could have thought of other ways to feed students, not necessarily with physical foods. SOCIOSO’s ‘AFTER SCHOOL, WHAT NEXT’ program is a very good example the SRC could have copied. It would have even helped salvage the dwindling reputation of the SRC.
The idea itself was ill-conceived and the programme itself was bizarre. Was it a deliberate agenda to create the atmosphere for students to fight over the food provided so that the illicit dealings of the organisers will be covered? Was it some KNUST students who are still unrefined after spending some time in a university like ours? It is alleged that some ‘gentlemen’ of our noble institution were picking ‘kelewele’ right from the oil. Food was spilled on the floor and people kicked the butts of each other just to have sips of the soft drinks served around there. The undeniable truth about this shameful incident was that it was a deliberate plot by the student powers that be to cover up certain dishonest activities that will come up very soon. Secondly, some students still remain unrefined despite the numerous avenues that abound for the polishing of the brutish lives that we once lived.
Sadly enough, individuals and groups which are seen as watchdogs of students politics were either in full support or totally quiet over the whole debacle of a food bazaar. Was it that, their palms were greased or they were busily enjoying the huge consignments of food and drink that was smuggled glaringly to them. Are they now selling their reputation for pittance or they are now showing their long-hidden selfish desires?
If we want to rattle about these irrational decisions by some of our student leaders, we will grow grey hair without knowing it. However, let the younger generation learn from the folly of the older generation. Let upcoming leaders think outside the box and implement prudent and rational policies. Also, whoever the organisers of the SRC SCHOOL FEEDING PROGRAMME were, they should with all the humility in them, go to the executives of the AGRIC STUDENTS ASSOCIATION. They organised a real food bazaar recently. It will help some of them pick few lessons so that they will not make laughing signposts of themselves when they move out of school.
Lastly, all these incidents we are witnessing just suggest to us that people should have some level of experience before been put in some positions. The truth is always painful but it must be said.
Courage Ahiati.
Couragesdiary.blogspot.com
courageislove@gmail.com
… SRC BEST INNOVATION SO FAR?
This year’s SRC week celebrations saw a lot of innovations that still keep fascinating and at the same time irritating a number of level headed students around. It was the first time SRC Week was celebrated concurrently with a hall’s week celebration. It was the first time, a girlfriend of the SRC president was actively involved in the planning and execution of all activities embodied in the programme. I think an amendment should be made, so that our constitution will recognise the office of the first lady. One particular activity that has kept my mouth agape and my fingers still scratching my head is what our very smart SRC decided to name ‘SRC FOOD BAZAAR’.
According to the Encarta dictionary, ‘BAZAAR’ means sales of goods to raise money for charity, often held outdoors. So who was fooling who, when the SRC promised to organise a food bazaar and ended up organising a school feeding programme? Whose idea was it? What rationale was behind such an event? What if even half of the student populace had decided to attend that event? Was there any sinister motive behind the scenes? Until some of these questions are answered in good faith, some of us can only bow our heads in shame and disappointment as we take our last steps out of KNUST.
The Yaw Oduro led administration had all the power and the goodwill to organise a food bazaar, which could have even brought few coins into the SRC coffers. It is just a matter of inviting food vendors to converge at the Royal Parade grounds and selling their products at subsidised prices. People will still patronise it. Even if the people in charge did not have a fair idea of what a food bazaar is, they could have thought of other ways to feed students, not necessarily with physical foods. SOCIOSO’s ‘AFTER SCHOOL, WHAT NEXT’ program is a very good example the SRC could have copied. It would have even helped salvage the dwindling reputation of the SRC.
The idea itself was ill-conceived and the programme itself was bizarre. Was it a deliberate agenda to create the atmosphere for students to fight over the food provided so that the illicit dealings of the organisers will be covered? Was it some KNUST students who are still unrefined after spending some time in a university like ours? It is alleged that some ‘gentlemen’ of our noble institution were picking ‘kelewele’ right from the oil. Food was spilled on the floor and people kicked the butts of each other just to have sips of the soft drinks served around there. The undeniable truth about this shameful incident was that it was a deliberate plot by the student powers that be to cover up certain dishonest activities that will come up very soon. Secondly, some students still remain unrefined despite the numerous avenues that abound for the polishing of the brutish lives that we once lived.
Sadly enough, individuals and groups which are seen as watchdogs of students politics were either in full support or totally quiet over the whole debacle of a food bazaar. Was it that, their palms were greased or they were busily enjoying the huge consignments of food and drink that was smuggled glaringly to them. Are they now selling their reputation for pittance or they are now showing their long-hidden selfish desires?
If we want to rattle about these irrational decisions by some of our student leaders, we will grow grey hair without knowing it. However, let the younger generation learn from the folly of the older generation. Let upcoming leaders think outside the box and implement prudent and rational policies. Also, whoever the organisers of the SRC SCHOOL FEEDING PROGRAMME were, they should with all the humility in them, go to the executives of the AGRIC STUDENTS ASSOCIATION. They organised a real food bazaar recently. It will help some of them pick few lessons so that they will not make laughing signposts of themselves when they move out of school.
Lastly, all these incidents we are witnessing just suggest to us that people should have some level of experience before been put in some positions. The truth is always painful but it must be said.
Courage Ahiati.
Couragesdiary.blogspot.com
courageislove@gmail.com
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
FACELESS ATTACKS ON KNUST
FACELESS ATTACKS ON KNUST
…the nuisance of ‘Nana Abrokwa, ‘Victor Pul’ and their ‘Siblings’
In recent times, our noble institution, KNUST has enjoyed tremendous rise both in infrastructure and international reputation. We rose from being 20th in University world rankings to more respectable higher heights. One thing that adds up to these feat that keeps our competitors mute is the aesthetic nature of our campus. The well-kept lawns and nice landscaping just adds to our ‘swag’.
I am very sure the good reputation of the school currently will make any leader both at the staff and students level so proud and confident. In that same spirit, it will make leadership position more attractive to others than it used to. It is in the wake of this that I see a lot of ambitious young men and women girding their loins to take over the realms of leadership in the students political spheres. It is a positive signal when you see such enthusiasm and participatory spirit rising up on campus.
However good and positive the pictures might be showing, there is this worrying canker, which if not addressed quickly and substantially, will go a long way to cast a slur on both our aesthetic environment and our seemingly attractive leadership positions. This is the desperate, indiscriminate, unreasonable and unintellectual smearing of KNUST with all kinds of posters, papers and pamphlets bearing the names of students supposedly aspiring to various positions on campus. If these posters were just posted on provided notice boards and other convenient places intelligently, it would not have raised any eyebrows.
Sadly enough, when one takes a stroll through campus, one would witness a sudden surge of wall defacing revolutionists on our campus. The chief culprits of these deliberate and conscious and puerile behaviours are names like NANA ABROKWA and VICTOR PUL. There are numerous other culprits but these two names seem to be the superpowers of the game. Just take a walk from the Commercial area down through the Block A of Africa hall and take a cursory look at the back of that particular hall. It has been seriously defaced with the posters or teasers of a certain NANA ABROKWA. Signposts of different departments and bodies on campus, giving various vital information have been plastered with these same posters. The menace has spread all over campus that even the semi-literate photocopy guys around are becoming fed up with this nuisance.
What makes these unintelligent behaviours more worrying and dangerous is what they are aspiring for. If they were a group of anti- NICE KNUST crusaders, it would have been a bit understandable. However, these are people seeking high offices of students’ leadership. My understanding of leadership is the ability to guide, direct and influence people. So if those aspiring to these high offices are putting up such unruly behaviours, then the multi-million cedi question I ask is, is there a better future for KNUST and student leadership as a whole? If someone aspiring to be the next SRC president has the shameful gust and audacity to deface our only female hall in a desperate attempt to gain recognition, what information is he sending out to KNUST? Maybe he will deface our ladies on campus when he is made a leader or he will turn KNUST into some lawless jungle. Maybe that person will create a personality cult for himself by having a hall sprayed with his name all over it. Or yet still, they will endorse lawlessness on campus.
Sorry enough, this unruly behaviour has been tolerated for long and these culprits always manage to go through all the electoral vetting on campus without any scratch and go on to occupy undeserved positions on campus. it is hard time we speak against this nuisance and stand against it as well. My octogenarian grandmother who has never seen the inside of a classroom before will wail for KNUST, should she come here one day and see the mess created by these ‘enemies of the university’.
I think the office of the dean of students should take a cue from their counterparts in the University of Ghana, and start placing fines on such people. Other concrete and punitive measures should be put in place to deter others from joining these masquerades. The student bodies concerned should also take up arms against them. More so, departments and other bodies who have their sign posts and bill boards as victims of this politics of desperation should seek their pound of flesh.
I do not know if this NANA ABROKWA, VICTOR PUL and the like are pseudonyms, nicknames, pet names or real names. If they are real names, then students who will go to the polls and undertake other electoral processes should take a second and critical look at them. What is even more annoying is that habit of them writing the sayings of people and putting their names under it without appreciating the copyrights owners of those sayings. Plagiarism of the highest order, which every writer or creator will frown on.
It is very unfortunate that we want to inculcate this attitude into our students’ political culture. Let us renew the old things and be up to speed with the world. No one is a saint. We are all guilty in one way or the other. Let us not take bitterness out of this plea. Let us pick out the common sense in this piece and use it in building a better KNUST, with an aesthetic environment, devoid of lawless student leaders. Long live KNUST and short live the dreams of lawless people creating nuisance in order to become student leaders.
NB: the writer did not write in vacuum. He has travelled the path that these current ones are aspiring to tread and have a fair idea of the concerns he has raised.
Courage Ahiati
courageislove@gmail.com
couragesdiary.blogspot.com
…the nuisance of ‘Nana Abrokwa, ‘Victor Pul’ and their ‘Siblings’
In recent times, our noble institution, KNUST has enjoyed tremendous rise both in infrastructure and international reputation. We rose from being 20th in University world rankings to more respectable higher heights. One thing that adds up to these feat that keeps our competitors mute is the aesthetic nature of our campus. The well-kept lawns and nice landscaping just adds to our ‘swag’.
I am very sure the good reputation of the school currently will make any leader both at the staff and students level so proud and confident. In that same spirit, it will make leadership position more attractive to others than it used to. It is in the wake of this that I see a lot of ambitious young men and women girding their loins to take over the realms of leadership in the students political spheres. It is a positive signal when you see such enthusiasm and participatory spirit rising up on campus.
However good and positive the pictures might be showing, there is this worrying canker, which if not addressed quickly and substantially, will go a long way to cast a slur on both our aesthetic environment and our seemingly attractive leadership positions. This is the desperate, indiscriminate, unreasonable and unintellectual smearing of KNUST with all kinds of posters, papers and pamphlets bearing the names of students supposedly aspiring to various positions on campus. If these posters were just posted on provided notice boards and other convenient places intelligently, it would not have raised any eyebrows.
Sadly enough, when one takes a stroll through campus, one would witness a sudden surge of wall defacing revolutionists on our campus. The chief culprits of these deliberate and conscious and puerile behaviours are names like NANA ABROKWA and VICTOR PUL. There are numerous other culprits but these two names seem to be the superpowers of the game. Just take a walk from the Commercial area down through the Block A of Africa hall and take a cursory look at the back of that particular hall. It has been seriously defaced with the posters or teasers of a certain NANA ABROKWA. Signposts of different departments and bodies on campus, giving various vital information have been plastered with these same posters. The menace has spread all over campus that even the semi-literate photocopy guys around are becoming fed up with this nuisance.
What makes these unintelligent behaviours more worrying and dangerous is what they are aspiring for. If they were a group of anti- NICE KNUST crusaders, it would have been a bit understandable. However, these are people seeking high offices of students’ leadership. My understanding of leadership is the ability to guide, direct and influence people. So if those aspiring to these high offices are putting up such unruly behaviours, then the multi-million cedi question I ask is, is there a better future for KNUST and student leadership as a whole? If someone aspiring to be the next SRC president has the shameful gust and audacity to deface our only female hall in a desperate attempt to gain recognition, what information is he sending out to KNUST? Maybe he will deface our ladies on campus when he is made a leader or he will turn KNUST into some lawless jungle. Maybe that person will create a personality cult for himself by having a hall sprayed with his name all over it. Or yet still, they will endorse lawlessness on campus.
Sorry enough, this unruly behaviour has been tolerated for long and these culprits always manage to go through all the electoral vetting on campus without any scratch and go on to occupy undeserved positions on campus. it is hard time we speak against this nuisance and stand against it as well. My octogenarian grandmother who has never seen the inside of a classroom before will wail for KNUST, should she come here one day and see the mess created by these ‘enemies of the university’.
I think the office of the dean of students should take a cue from their counterparts in the University of Ghana, and start placing fines on such people. Other concrete and punitive measures should be put in place to deter others from joining these masquerades. The student bodies concerned should also take up arms against them. More so, departments and other bodies who have their sign posts and bill boards as victims of this politics of desperation should seek their pound of flesh.
I do not know if this NANA ABROKWA, VICTOR PUL and the like are pseudonyms, nicknames, pet names or real names. If they are real names, then students who will go to the polls and undertake other electoral processes should take a second and critical look at them. What is even more annoying is that habit of them writing the sayings of people and putting their names under it without appreciating the copyrights owners of those sayings. Plagiarism of the highest order, which every writer or creator will frown on.
It is very unfortunate that we want to inculcate this attitude into our students’ political culture. Let us renew the old things and be up to speed with the world. No one is a saint. We are all guilty in one way or the other. Let us not take bitterness out of this plea. Let us pick out the common sense in this piece and use it in building a better KNUST, with an aesthetic environment, devoid of lawless student leaders. Long live KNUST and short live the dreams of lawless people creating nuisance in order to become student leaders.
NB: the writer did not write in vacuum. He has travelled the path that these current ones are aspiring to tread and have a fair idea of the concerns he has raised.
Courage Ahiati
courageislove@gmail.com
couragesdiary.blogspot.com
Thursday, February 24, 2011
KNUST SRC WEEK CELEBRATIONS
KNUST SRC WEEK CELEBRATIONS.
…A CASE OF MISPLACED PRIORITY?
It is an undeniable fact that SRC week celebrations are very important. It is a time that the whole school is brought together for different purposes ranging from academic to entertainment. I always love to see the cadet corps of the various halls marching in unison. It’s always a lovely sight. It is also a time that the SRC gets closer to the student populace and amongst other things renders accounts of their mandate. One thing I loved about this year’s parade was the very supportive role played by the FIRST LADY of the students’ body. I doff my cup for her.
SRC week celebrations, despite its importance have always been bedevilled with all kinds of controversies, chief among them being the scary embezzlement rumours that always follow the celebrations. We have however never had the will-power to probe into those allegations to get the right things done. One thing that however raises eyebrows about the SRC WEEK CELEBRATIONS this year is that, it was not celebrated in first semester, as is normally done.
SRC WEEK CELEBRATIONS not carried out in first semester is not necessarily the news. What bothers my troublesome mind a lot is the logic in celebrating it in this particular period. It is an undeniable fact that the halls of residence and the colleges are what form up the SRC. It is also well known that second semester is fully packed with activities of almost all student groups on campus. We have five hall week celebrations on campus which can even take up the whole entertainment calendar. Colleges, faculties, departments and old school associations have all slated their programmes for the second semester.
In the university, we are taught to critically analyse situations, get the pros and cons, and put into action something that will really be of immense benefit. The questions I ask are: did the SRC take into consideration the packed up calendar for second semester? Is it compulsory to celebrate SRC Week at all cost? Is it a forum for someone or some people to recoup what they invested some time ago? Is there any logic in having SRC week in a period where we have six whole weeks of hall celebrations? Why should SRC week be celebrated in the same week that INDEPENDENCE HALL is having their hall week? Are they not part of the SRC? What crime have they committed to be given such a raw deal?
As a matter of fact, this particular SRC week celebrations should have been scraped off. Money being pumped into it could have been put into other worthwhile related projects. Unless those in charge do not want to do any critical thinking. It is so irrational for SRC week celebrations to run concurrently with a hall week celebration. I will pardon those in charge if they do not necessarily know the purpose behind SRC week celebrations. Is it not just a matter of collaborating with the various halls?
Another group that must bow its head in shame for its lack of decisions is the SRC Parliamentary council. I am very sure this issue popped up in the ‘very vibrant’ yet sleeping parliamentary council that we have. If the representatives of the halls on campus were united and bold, they should have withdrawn their cadets’ corps from the celebration or even block the whole celebrations, knowing evidently well that one of them was going to be used as a sacrificial lamb. Was it a decision they all supported? Did they really think through it before it was endorsed or the decision was just bulldozed through without their approval?
If one wants to go into the details of the irrelevance of this particular SRC WEEK CELEBRATIONS, it would be a never ending story. However, let us not just throw our hands into the air and repeat the cliche that, the harm has already been caused. Let aspiring student leaders take cue from such illogical and unpardonable mistakes. The personal glory agenda will not help students and the society as a whole. Let’s make it a point to be generational thinkers rather than seekers of unnecessary glory. The SRC should also make sure they come out with the true accounts of what was used for what during the celebrations. Checks have already been made and the eyes and ears of students of our noble institution are waiting patiently.
COURAGE AHIATI
POLITICS IV
courageislove@gmail.com
…A CASE OF MISPLACED PRIORITY?
It is an undeniable fact that SRC week celebrations are very important. It is a time that the whole school is brought together for different purposes ranging from academic to entertainment. I always love to see the cadet corps of the various halls marching in unison. It’s always a lovely sight. It is also a time that the SRC gets closer to the student populace and amongst other things renders accounts of their mandate. One thing I loved about this year’s parade was the very supportive role played by the FIRST LADY of the students’ body. I doff my cup for her.
SRC week celebrations, despite its importance have always been bedevilled with all kinds of controversies, chief among them being the scary embezzlement rumours that always follow the celebrations. We have however never had the will-power to probe into those allegations to get the right things done. One thing that however raises eyebrows about the SRC WEEK CELEBRATIONS this year is that, it was not celebrated in first semester, as is normally done.
SRC WEEK CELEBRATIONS not carried out in first semester is not necessarily the news. What bothers my troublesome mind a lot is the logic in celebrating it in this particular period. It is an undeniable fact that the halls of residence and the colleges are what form up the SRC. It is also well known that second semester is fully packed with activities of almost all student groups on campus. We have five hall week celebrations on campus which can even take up the whole entertainment calendar. Colleges, faculties, departments and old school associations have all slated their programmes for the second semester.
In the university, we are taught to critically analyse situations, get the pros and cons, and put into action something that will really be of immense benefit. The questions I ask are: did the SRC take into consideration the packed up calendar for second semester? Is it compulsory to celebrate SRC Week at all cost? Is it a forum for someone or some people to recoup what they invested some time ago? Is there any logic in having SRC week in a period where we have six whole weeks of hall celebrations? Why should SRC week be celebrated in the same week that INDEPENDENCE HALL is having their hall week? Are they not part of the SRC? What crime have they committed to be given such a raw deal?
As a matter of fact, this particular SRC week celebrations should have been scraped off. Money being pumped into it could have been put into other worthwhile related projects. Unless those in charge do not want to do any critical thinking. It is so irrational for SRC week celebrations to run concurrently with a hall week celebration. I will pardon those in charge if they do not necessarily know the purpose behind SRC week celebrations. Is it not just a matter of collaborating with the various halls?
Another group that must bow its head in shame for its lack of decisions is the SRC Parliamentary council. I am very sure this issue popped up in the ‘very vibrant’ yet sleeping parliamentary council that we have. If the representatives of the halls on campus were united and bold, they should have withdrawn their cadets’ corps from the celebration or even block the whole celebrations, knowing evidently well that one of them was going to be used as a sacrificial lamb. Was it a decision they all supported? Did they really think through it before it was endorsed or the decision was just bulldozed through without their approval?
If one wants to go into the details of the irrelevance of this particular SRC WEEK CELEBRATIONS, it would be a never ending story. However, let us not just throw our hands into the air and repeat the cliche that, the harm has already been caused. Let aspiring student leaders take cue from such illogical and unpardonable mistakes. The personal glory agenda will not help students and the society as a whole. Let’s make it a point to be generational thinkers rather than seekers of unnecessary glory. The SRC should also make sure they come out with the true accounts of what was used for what during the celebrations. Checks have already been made and the eyes and ears of students of our noble institution are waiting patiently.
COURAGE AHIATI
POLITICS IV
courageislove@gmail.com
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