“We are not by that saying pastors must not give advice, admonition, and preaching, that is not what we are saying. We all do need that. But what we do should not come as a directive, or instructions to them.

“Because these are people who are supposed to be professionals and have been trained to have certain skills to work and to do their job. We must allow them to use that”, Reverend Dr Kwabena Opuni-Frimpong, General Secretary of CCG said in an interview with the GNA on Wednesday.

He said the current trend in which pastors and prophets had been heard in the media giving directives to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and other state officials to take certain actions on national issues was so unfortunate and should not be entertained at all.

Some pastors have been calling on the President to declare national fasting and prayers days over the recent incidences of road accidents and suicides as well as the Kintampo rainstorm disaster.

Rev Opuni-Frimpong  explained that the country as a whole would be in difficulty if professionals who have been trained to do what they ought to do, decide to run state institutions on the back of prophesies and predictions of religious leaders, “this country would be in real confusion and chaos”.

“We end up tying up the hands of professionals”, he said.

He said pastors and prophets needed to do what they ought to do based on the visions and prophesies they had from God through the making of supplications, fasting and prayers and intervene for the country and the people.“But in so doing we must not take over what the professionals are supposed to do. State institutions must be allowed to function”, Rev Opuni-Frimpong said.

He said the President must be allowed to listen to the professionals and technical people and act accordingly and not by the order of a religious leader.He said professionals who had been put in places to ensure road safety, equip hospitals with needed facilities, pruning of trees, and keeping the environment in order and  should therefore be allowed to work.

He reminded all pastors that the Constitution that allows them to speak and prophesize also give other people the rights to belong to other religions and beliefs who could not be bounded by any prophesies of a pastor or prophets.