Kumasi, March 14, GNA - People in positions of trust including the clergy, ministers of state and heads of organisations have been advised against using their positions as opportunities for amassing wealth since that amounts to a breach of trust.

Bishop J.N.K. Boateng, founder of the Gospel Revival Church of Christ, who gave the advice, explained that persons in such positions were only holding the offices in trust for the people and were therefore expected to use the offices to the benefit of the people and not to merely manipulate them for their selfish and personal interest. Bishop Boateng was speaking at a meeting with the elders of the church at Sofoline in Kumasi, on Saturday.

He reminded occupants of such high offices that since they were only holding such offices in trust, they would eventually have to account of their stewardship "not only to man but also to God". Bishop Boateng stressed; "No matter the number of years it takes, occupants of such offices will one day be ushered in to render accounts to the people they purported to have served and also to God, their creator who blessed them with such positions."

He appealed to Ghanaians to eschew corrupt practices and dishonesty since those attributes impacted negatively on "our dignity as Ghanaians and obstructs national efforts at speeding up progress."

Bishop Boateng also entreated workers in the public sector to discard the notion that the organisations in which they worked belonged to the government and for that matter, there was no point giving of their best.

He made it clear that public establishments did not belong to the government but to the state and as such there was the need to work assiduously to enhance their growth.