Prophecies have been given a fresh traction under the NDC government.
Elvis Afriyie Ankrah the man who shed tears during a World Cup Committee hearing does not appear ready to host ghosts or matters esoteric as he heads this department, the first of its kind in the country.
Although clothed in flowery adjectives the Presidential Envoy for Interfaith and Ecumenical Relations, the terms of reference of the office are basically to engage ‘prophets’ over their prophecies. This way prophecies which should not be relayed to the public because they have the potential to cause fear and panic, would be restricted to four walls of the department of prophecies at the Presidency.
We have wondered where soothsayers would be placed in this echelon of esoteric matters because after all they too are endowed with this special privileges of seeing into the future.
Maybe they have to be specially invited before they join in the prophecy train. Should they be invited first since after all ‘interfaith’ encompasses them too?
It can only be imagined when in the course of discharging his presidential duties of sieving ghostly prophecies Elvis Afriyie Ankrah sees an apparition in the wee hours of the night. We can bet he would take to his heels as he chants the names of popular saints.
Death prophecies being as he himself put it constituting most of what he has received so far he appears to be discouraged with the quality of the presentations.
What did he expect to be receiving from the commercial prophets? Angels in their white frocks presenting frankincense to the President? Or the arrival of Unidentified Flying Objects from outer space? Or the Commander-In-Chief taking cover in the foliage of a baobab tree upon seeing the apparition of the late President John Evans Atta Mills.
While we do not doubt the fact that some persons are endowed with special powers of interpreting dreams and prophesying we shall be quick to add there are crooks and they are many.
Let Elvis not be discouraged and to carry on… Ghanaians would not forgive him when any of his rejected ‘death prophecies’ comes true which he did not tell them about.
So what next following the poor quality prophecies he is receiving at his exalted office within the bosom of the Presidency?
How did he determine the uselessness of the prophecies he received? Did he come to that conclusion because they simply are about death?
Perhaps the prophets would have to be schooled about the kind of prophecies they should be submitting. Call them selective prophecies. Better the prophets have been lately seeing only death in recent times. Maybe they should be told to vary the prophecies lest they are ignored.
Death prophecies are too scary for the consideration of the presidency. Not at this time when the country is just coming out of a national period of mourning after the gory helicopter crash that killed all the eight occupants.
