{"id":24650,"date":"2018-03-22T10:45:03","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T10:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.com\/gh\/?p=24650"},"modified":"2018-03-22T00:02:32","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T00:02:32","slug":"former-president-mahama-calls-out-pastor-mensa-otabil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/former-president-mahama-calls-out-pastor-mensa-otabil\/","title":{"rendered":"Former President Mahama Calls Out Pastor Mensa Otabil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Mahama isn&#8217;t holding back.<\/p>\n<p>Former President John Dramani Mahama launched a stinging attack on Pastor Mensa Otabil. He is the founder and leader of the International Central Gospel Church.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, Mahama stated that Mensa Otabil had a lot to say when he was in power. However, now politics tires him. This is because his favourite party is in power. Therefore, he now watches \u2018animals\u2019 on tv.<\/p>\n<h4>Moreover, according to former President Mahama, Otabil is a hypocrite.<\/h4>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cSomething is pardonable when one government is in power but when another is in power it\u2019s unpardonable, things that the media would have been so loud about under my administration, it happens every day and it\u2019s like it\u2019s business as usual. That is the hypocrisy of our civil society and religious and traditional leaders, everybody is quiet, suddenly some say they don\u2019t watch TV anymore and that they watch animals. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In our time they were not watching animals, they were watching political discussions. You\u2019re now tired of too much politics\u2026you\u2019ll be tired, because your darling government is super incompetent and so you\u2019re tired of hearing the analysis, that\u2019s the hypocrisy we face in our country. 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