However, eight months after the NPP won the elections, Mr. Hammond
remains an ordinary Member of Parliament without any ministerial appointment.
Yet the transfer of prophetic mission to Elisha suggests that the tension between the prophet and society will
remain: Elisha must abandon his life as an
ordinary member of society, bid farewell to his mother and father, and sacrifice the oxen with which he had made his living (I Kings 19:19 - 21)