West African drug traffickers ‘retreating into religion’
Some of the people sitting in front-row pews of West African churches are drug traffickers who are praised for their generosity while they are really destroying young lives, the head of a Ghanaian conflict resolution institute has warned.
"For the last five years I have been calling on Christian leaders in Ghana and elsewhere to stand up and name and shame these people. So far there has not been a single response," said Kwesi Aning. He is head of the Conflict Prevention, Management and Resolution Department at the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre in Accra, Ghana.
"Dealers commit their terrible crimes and then retreat into religion," Aning told Ecumenical News International in an interview after addressing a meeting at the House of Commons.
