You Risk Being Jailed, Ghanaian Police Tells Pastors Ahead Of 2022 Over Fake Prophecies

Because the world attracts nearer to celebrating the brand new yr 2022, the Ghanaian Police Service has warned non secular leaders within the nation in opposition to prophesying “hurt, hazard and dying” and others that might “create rigidity and panic” within the nation.

Clergymen are recognized to make prophecies about international locations and other people as a brand new yr emerges.

 

In a press release launched by its Director, Public Affairs, Supt. Alexander Obeng, the Ghanaian police stated individuals discovered responsible of inflicting rigidity within the Ghanaian society by way of injurious prophecies are liable to a five-year jail time period.

 

Learn the assertion under:

 

 

 

”GHANA POLICE SERVICE STATEMENT ON COMMUNICATION OF PROPHECIES AND THEIR LEGAL IMPLICATIONS

 

1. Because the yr 2021 attracts to a detailed, the Ghana Police Service needs to attract the eye of Ghanaians, particularly non secular teams, to the truth that whereas now we have the precise to faith, freedom of worship and free speech, all of those rights are topic to the respect for the rights and freedoms of others in line with our legal guidelines.

 

 

 

2. Over time, communication of prophesies of hurt, hazard and dying, by some non secular leaders, have created rigidity and panic within the Ghanaian society and put the lives of many individuals in concern and hazard.

 

3. We wish to warning that beneath Ghanaian legislation, it’s a crime for an individual to publish or reproduce a press release, hearsay or report which is prone to trigger concern and alarm to the general public or to disturb the general public peace, the place that particular person has no proof to show that the assertion, hearsay or report is true.

 

4. Additionally it is a criminal offense for an individual, via digital communications service, to knowingly ship a communication that’s false or deceptive and prone to prejudice the effectivity of life saving service or to hazard the security of any particular person.

 

 

 

5. An individual discovered responsible beneath these legal guidelines might be liable to a time period of imprisonment of as much as 5 years.

 

6. We subsequently want to warning all Ghanaians, particularly non secular teams and leaders to be measured of their utterances, particularly how they convey prophecies, which can injure the precise of others and the general public curiosity.

 

7. The Ghana Police Service needs to put on report that the Police usually are not in opposition to prophecies; we acknowledge that we Ghanaians are a non secular individuals who know, and consider in, the centrality of God in our lives.”

 

 

Ghanaian Police Tells Pastors Forward Of 2022 Over Faux Prophecies

Ghanaian Police Tells Pastors Forward Of 2022 Over Faux Prophecies

Ghanaian Police Tells Pastors Forward Of 2022 Over Faux Prophecies

Ghanaian Police Tells Pastors Forward Of 2022 Over Faux Prophecies