“Many Ghanaians believe that the solution to Ghana’s financial, health and societal problems lie not in the application of mental resources nor hard work nor innovation but in prayer and divine interventions,” the Executive Chairman of Jonah Capital Limited, Sir Sam E. Jonah has said.
Sir Sam Jonah highlighted that this pervasive dependency on divine solutions posed a risk to Ghana’s progress.
“While faith is an integral part of our culture, it becomes problematic when it discourages critical thinking, personal responsibility and accountability,” he stated.
He was speaking at the Graphic National Development Series on Tuesday [Nov 5], under the theme, “A Critical Look at Education and Culture in Ghana to Chart a Course for National Development, Peace, and Our Collective Prosperity.”
Sir Sam Jonah stressed the impact of this mindset on national development.
He further noted that it was evident that a large number of people believed that the effective way of solving the country’s financial, health and other societal problems was not by thinking and working but by appealing to the Almighty.
“Where else would the notion be taken seriously that a strong economy, food security or the eradication of preventable disease can somehow be achieved, not by the use of our brains but by praying to God and casting and binding demons and yet this absurdity is nodded to by a large number of people when it is delivered from our pulpits in our country,” he added.
