Pastor Mensa Otabil has launched a scathing attack on Ghanaian media, describing it as substandard and full of trash.
The founder and leader of The International Central Gospel Church (ICGC) who is known for his candid opinion about topical issues in the country, says he prefers to watch animals than to waste his time to follow Ghanaian media.
Here’s what he said:
“If you listen to our national conversations, you wonder; are we serious?” Are we? “Turn on the radio. Here there is no political vacation. From the time the vote is cast to the time the next vote is cast, we argue politics morning, afternoon, evening…
Check all your top radio talk shows, take politics out and they have nothing to talk about again. I won’t even say take politics out, take NPP and NDC out. Just say, this morning no NPP, no NDC. There’ll be no conversation because we can’t even think beyond two parties. We can’t think solutions and we are driving ourselves into this abyss of hopelessness.
I will watch animals. I’ll watch cheetah, I’ll watch lion, I’ll watch antelope anytime… I’ll watch giraffes anytime because at least they’ll tell me how to hunt, how to get to your goal, how to avoid being eaten. I’ll learn that from an antelope.
At least I’d come back and say: nobody will eat me. But you listen to Ghanaian radio, watch Ghanaian TV and you wonder; are we still here, the mediocrity?
The excellence that we used to have is all gone down. Instead of raising the bar higher we’ve lowered it and lowered it every time we lower it lower and lower and lower and we have huge problems.”
What do you think?
