Kumasi, Aug 19, GNA - The Most Rev Thomas Kwaku Mensah, the Metropolitan Archbishop of the Kumasi Archdiocese of the Catholic Church, has said it was sad some employers demanded sex from job seekers before employing them or sex before promotion. He said the practice was not only morally wrong and sinful but also against the human right of the job seeker or the worker and appealed to people in leadership positions, especially men, to desist from the practice.

Most Rev Mensah said this in a sermon during his first pastoral visit to the Saint Anthony's Catholic Church at Anwomaso. He attributed the challenges confronting the nation to people's addiction to sin. He said Christians should let their beliefs reflect in their daily lives, adding that this could help reduce social vices. Most Rev Mensah appealed to parents and people in authority to make sure children were properly trained with good moral ethics to take up the leadership of the nation in future since without such training, the country would have no future.

He urged workers in the public sector to be proactive in their daily activities, should desist from malingering and think about how they could support the development of the nation. Archbishop Mensah said people should stop the get rich quick attitude which is gradually gaining roots in the country and that that this had brought in its wake social vices such as internet fraud and armed robbery. He suggested that spanking children at school that had been stopped should be reintroduced to serve as a way of refining and shaping children as well as bringing them to order. Nana Kwaku Siaw, Nkokuohene for Anwomaso, appealed to the Catholic Church to consider establishing a basic school in the community and said the chiefs had pledged a large acreage of land if the church agreed to the proposal.