Ghanaians, unlike Nigerians, do not celebrate wealth and success but rather hide their wealth and sometimes cause it to be destroyed, founder of Action Chapel International (ACI), Archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams has said.
Preaching to his congregation on Sunday, 29 April, Archbishop Duncan-Williams said while Nigerians freely flaunt their wealth, rich Ghanaians would not dare to do same out of fear of victimisation.
“You know I was telling them the other day and because we are Ghana there are certain things I don’t want to say because Ghanaians we’re a very different people because even when you are giving testimony, they think you are bluffing, ‘wo kyere wu ho dodo’, ‘who does he think he is?’
Nigerians celebrate good things, Nigerians celebrate success, Ghanaians we don’t, Ghanaians we like good things but we are afraid to celebrate it. I know some Ghanaians outside and if you see where they live you’d be shocked, but over here: ‘Let me mind my own business’; we have to get to a place where everybody who succeeds is not corrupt, we have to be very careful, if everybody that makes it is corrupt, then we’ll have a society of poor people, nobody will be rich in this country because everybody who gets something is corrupt.
“I’m not saying we shouldn’t check corruption, or check how people make it but I think we should focus on how we can encourage people to make it. We have to develop a society where we create an atmosphere for Ghanaians, irrespective of background, political persuasions or culture, whatever or tradition, we must create an atmosphere for Ghanaians to flourish and not just foreigners.
“Every Ghanaian must succeed and when they succeed, they are paying their taxes and doing the right thing, they should be able to enjoy it, and we should create an atmosphere to encourage Ghanaians who make it and work hard and succeed to enjoy.
“I’m not talking about government and I’m not talking about politicians, I’m talking about Ghanaians as a society, let’s begin to have a mentality that creates wealth, and let’s also accept people when they make it the right way to enjoy their wealth, without antagonising people and making people afraid enjoying what they have …
“I watch CNN, do you know how many Nigerians or Nigerian banks advertise on CNN? A lot of them; about six or seven Nigerian banks and all these Nigerians advertising on CNN and nobody goes after them and says: ‘Let’s investigate them’. I’m not saying we shouldn’t investigate people who are wrong, don’t misunderstand me and I’m not saying we shouldn’t deal with corruption, that’s not what I’m saying, so, please get me out of that category, don’t put me in a category where I don’t have the freedom to speak truth to a situation I feel passionately about; the constitution gives me the right to speak.
I am talking about us as citizens; there is not one Ghanaian on CNN, when you see Ghanaians on CNN they are interviewing, I mean they’ve done well and everything but I’m talking about some of these Nigerians, Charley, they are mega, big boys, deep pockets. Now as for how they made it, I can’t tell and I’m not talking about how they made it, that one is up to them and God and conscience and society whatever, I’m just talking that it’s just nice and good to see some of our own brethren, black like you and [me], achieving something and that it is not only the white man that can do it, that black people can also do it. So, I’m not talking about we shouldn’t check corruption but I’m saying that check corruption but let’s also create an atmosphere that is conducive for Ghanaians whether they are doctors, they are lawyers, they are engineers, they are computer scientists, they are whatever that they can prosper, flourish, enjoy their money and celebrate it”, he said.
Source: classfmonline.com
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this doncan william is a con man, the bible say, IT WILL BE VERY DIFFICULT FOR A RICH MAN TO GO TO HEAVEN THAN A CAMEL TO GO THROUGH EYE OF NEEDLE, doncan williwm is a disgrace, africa citizen
listen to this fooooolish con man, who take poor people monies and talk ***barred word***, why dont u invest the monies for people to get work, u talk of spending, fooooooolissh foooooool u have no brain,, n,d,c pastor. gh pp
he has to be insulted. ppl like him with such utterances encourage the thieevery and materialism that we want to stop. In he admires Nigeria, he shld pack his sheeeeet, swallow his own feeeeces and move there!!! This is Ghana, not Nigeria. Nkwasssssssiasem. Bishop my fooot!!!!
NOBODY IS INSULTING PASTOR DUNCAN-WILLIAMS because the question is was he using wealth as a basis for his religious or moral lesson in society besides what is his moral grounds for using wealth as a basis to lecture Ghanaians on celebrating wealth which most Ghanaians know are acquired by nation wreckers in both NPP/NDC parties in Ghana ; this arrogant idiotic full Duncan-Williams should understand that attempting to preach wealth without the source of such wealth defeats the whole purpose of him being a Pastor;wealth is a good thing for society when created in good faith ; this arrogant full thinks he has being blessed by God but this greedy and misguided full should understand that being blessed does not mean creating dubious wealth by stilling from other people and this is exactly what Nigerians are doing and like Ghana Nigeria is a 'SHITHOLE' read what Bill Gates said about Nigeria .!!!!
Celebrating your wealth without any benefit to your society, What do you stand to gain from that? That is dumb wealth. If you have the money and you cannot do any meaningful thing to benefit you community and society, what is the use of celebrating such a wealth.I like impacting a knowledge and you don`t apply it,how can you become powerful if not applied. Nigeria is a failed country, so what was the benefit of celebrating their wealth. You can say and do better that this Duncan Williams
The so-called arch-bishop should ask rawlings and his clique why out of envy they destroyed the wealth of siaw tata, Appiah-menkas etc because they were akan businessmen. How do you expect to build and create wealth in a society like this. And these evil cabal of individuals are the same people behind the formation of ndc party. And they themselves are unable to create any wealth except to steal from the state. Duncan-williams knows all those guys and they are his friends. This hypocrisy must stop in the house of God.
No need to insult Bishop Duncan Williams. You can disagree with him. In one breath I agree with him that Nigerians celebrate success, I also agree with him on the testimony issue. I don't think Ghanaians shun successful people, we only want to know how they made their money. Everyone knows the source of Asamoah Gyan's cash, and we celebrate him. However if Mr. X shows up one day with billions of dollars, I think we deserve the right to know where the money came from. There is nothing wrong with that. In fact Bishop himself isn't sure about how Nigerians make their money, so he kept clarifying. Ghanaians were trained to live clean not dirty. If our society was just, I don't think anyone will doubt the rich men. We all know how people join politics to loot the country, how would you expect right thinking people to celebrate someone like that. In fact our pastor's ought to be careful about their prosperity messages.
Nigerians celebrate fraud not wealth
what surprises me is that ppl follow this clear-as-dayligh false prophet and fat fooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool
Arch Bishop Williams spent more time clarifying what he did not say instead of telling us exactly what he wants to say. What did he want to say: that Ghanaians are wrong in not flaunting their wealth or Ghanaian businesses don't advertise on bigger platforms?