Sankofaonline News Desk
Date July 4 ,2025.
Obuasi,Ghana – In an electrifying sermon that tore through platitudes and pierced the conscience of a nation, the Methodist Bishop of the Obuasi Diocese, Rt. Rev. Baffuor Asamoah Agyei, delivered a fiery rebuke of corruption in Ghana, likening the looting of state resources to greedily swallowing a shared toffee meant for all.
“If state property were to be a toffee, when one licks it, then he passes on to his brother to do same so that at the end of the day it will benefit all of us,” he told congregants at the National Day of Prayer and Thanksgiving in Obuasi. “But another person, when it gets to his turn, decides to swallow the toffee. Those who have swallowed State properties, we must open their stomachs and retrieve them.”
Rt. Rev. Agyei’s metaphor was more than rhetoric—it was a moral thunderclap. His words exposed the raw nerve of Ghana’s greatest betrayal: the siphoning of public wealth by the few at the cost of the many.
At a time when roads remain untarred, hospitals are underfunded, and youth unemployment festers, it is not silence that the Church offers—but a trumpet blast. The Bishop’s call is a demand for justice, not just divine, but legal. It is a reminder that while prayers uplift souls, accountability rebuilds nations.
Ghana bleeds not from a lack of potential but from those who feast alone on the common pot. The scandal is not merely theft—it is the calculated starvation of development. It is the ghost schools that never got built. The medicine that never reached clinics. The irrigation projects that dried up before they broke ground. These are not numbers on a spreadsheet—they are lives deferred, dignity denied, futures stolen.
Rt. Rev. Agyei’s message resounds as both a pastoral plea and a civic rallying cry. He demands prosecution and retrieval of stolen assets—not as vengeance, but as restitution. Because for Ghana to rise, it must first recover what was taken in broad daylight, cloaked in impunity.
And if the metaphor is toffee, then the challenge is simple: let no one leave with sticky fingers and bulging cheeks while the rest of us wait politely in line.
Justice, in this case, is not optional. It is overdue.
