A Senior Lecturer at the University of Ghana, Legon, Dr. Gorge Domfeh has described people who hide behind the new media to insult well-accomplished Ghanaians as lacking access to education.
According to him, any individual who has reached a higher pedestal in education will not go low to the extent of using various media platforms with the sole aim of insulting people who have not in any way provoked them.
Speaking exclusively with the Republic Press at the sideline of the 100 years memorial lecture of Armstrong/Amissah of Wesley College of Education held in Accra, Dr. Domfeh described the new trend where young Ghanaians without proper upbringing insult well-accomplished men in society as sickening and must be addressed before it gets out of hand.
Describing the importance of education and how it transformed lives, the lecturer said men with good education will not dedicate their precious time insulting people but rather will channel their energy into prudent and things that will benefit the country economically.
“Today, we have some young men thus Twene Jonas, Kelvin Taylor and Ohene David who use the new media to insult Men of God, Politicians, Imams, businessmen, musicians and the likes just to attract numbers and followers,” he stated.
“If Twene Jonas, Ohene David, Kelvin Taylor and the likes have good education and allowed education to transform them, they will not commit their time to insults adding that in advanced countries where many people have been transformed by education, they respect each other mutually.”
“I heard Ohene David on social media insulting the former chairman for the Church of Pentecost, Apostle Dr. Opoku Onyinah, who has been a blessing to Ghana in so many ways, but if this guy has proper education and could read in between the lines there was no way he would go on that tangent,” he stated.
He said the only difference between Africans and Europeans or Americans are that when you take the population of 100 adults in Europe or America, 90% of them had education above senior high school but in Ghana only 22% of every 100 adults is educated to that level.
“Our problem is that because Ghana has low percentage of education, we turn to believe any liar that is thrown into the system which always affect the voting pattern.”
Dr. Domfeh charged on policy makers to develop programmes that are geared towards pushing many people into education.
