The President John Dramani Mahama has urged the clergy not to hesitate to speak up if they feel things are not going well in his government.

Quoting the popular adage that ‘he who is cutting a path does not know that his back is crooked’, President Mahama said he could only be put on the right path if men of conscience spoke up.

“We must foster ongoing di­alogue between church leaders and national authorities. The church has a voice that must be heard in the national discourse. So don’t be afraid to speak up if you see things going wrong in my government, if you see anything bending, don’t be afraid to tell us,” President Mahama said.

The President made this call when he worshiped with the ‘Men of God’ here in the Ashanti regional capital, Kuma­si, on Sunday.

It came on the back of an earlier engagement with the clergy in Accra on Friday.

Dubbed ‘Mahama Fellow­ships with the Clergy’, it is a platform for the President to thank the Clergy for their sup­port during the electioneering campaign and to ask them to continue to back his govern­ment spiritually.

According to President Ma­hama, nation building was not the responsibility of only the elected but the church as well.

He called on the clergy to keep Ghana in their prayers that the leaders at all levels would be endowed with wisdom to take the right decisions that benefit the people.

“Your prayers are needed more than ever. The Challeng­es are daunting but nothing is impossible for God,” the Presi­dent emphasized.

The Church, President Ma­hama said transforms lives and builds communities as he en­treated them to collaborate and expand and reach the remotest communities in the country to affect the lives of the people positively.

He said the government would be on hand to support any church that goes into agric and agribusiness.

This, President Mahana said would create jobs at the local levels for the teeming unem­ployed youth and reduce the country’s food import bill.

On development projects in the Ashanti Region, President Mahama recommitted his gov­ernment to continue all projects started in his previous govern­ment and by the immediate past administration.

For example he said the Sewua and Afari hospitals would be completed this year, adding that government would seek funding to continue work on the Suame interchange which does not have a dedi­cated source of funding; and the phase two of the Kejetia market which has also stalled as a result of the debt exchange programme.

Under the US$10 billion ‘big push’ initiative to support critical infrastructure across the country, President Mahama said the Kumasi western bypass project would also be con­structed to redirect traffic from the metropolis.

“There’s much to do and I ask for your prayers,” he requested.

The service which had more than 100 different Christian denominations was used to say prayers for the President and his government.