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The Founder and General Overseer of the Royalhouse Chapel International, Apostle General, Most Rev. Sam Korankye Ankrah, has condemned the harassment of journalists by the security agencies in the country.
“We do not support the harassment of journalists who are doing their work to speak truth to power and call power to account,” he stated.

Rev Ankrah said this when a presenter of Accra FM, Kwabena Bobbie Ansah, and the Executive Director of the Alliance for Social Equity and Public Accountability (ASEPA), Thompson Mensah joined the church on Sunday, February 13, 2022, to thank God for their release.

The two were recently arrested for false news publications.

“In Royalhouse Chapel you have faithful partners in the liberty of journalism and reportage in Ghana,” Rev Ankrah told the duo.

It is not going to be an assignment of journalists and the courts only but of every citizen of this nation,” he said.

Adding his voice to the several calls for the use of the courts for redress in matters such as false news publication, the Apostle General said the police investigations were unnecessary.

Forgive

Rev Ankrah also used the opportunity to call for forgiveness for the two, saying, “let us learn to forgive those who are always on the microphone. The one who goes to the stream to fetch water is the one who gets wet. Within the spur of the moment, we say things that we should not say, but when you are emotionally charged, it happens.”

He further noted that journalists sometimes find themselves in trouble for things they say and write but that should not be used to condemn the profession in its entirety.

He added that “It is the hazards of the work. We should learn to forgive and tolerate them and look at the work that they do for the common good of society and not the small mistakes that they commit.”

Rev Ankrah, therefore, apologised on their behalf to anyone who had been offended by their reportage and prayed for the duo.

Prayer

The Apostle General later prayed for wisdom and protection for the two,” I pray grace upon your lives, I pray for wisdom and protection for. Any threat upon your lives today on this altar we cancel it. Any threat to your family members we cancel it, they will gather against you but not by the Lord”.

“And every weapon that is formed against you; whether it is political, whether it is spiritual, whether it is financial, whether it is manipulation or whether it is brute force; we pray that the Lord will raise your standard against them.

“We pray that you dwell in peace, and you will dwell in safety. Ghana will know peace…the oppressor will not prevail…liberty and democracy will thrive but above all development and prosperity for our nation”, the apostle General prayed.

He further called on Ghanaians to hold those in power accountable for their actions and inactions.

“When we vote for them, we will call them to accountability, they would have to account for the power vested in them and the promises that they make for which we elected them.