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The National Peace Council has called for cool heads to prevail in the ongoing saga involving a Muslim student not being allowed to observe the Ramadan in Wesley Girls High School.
The NPC, therefore, urged the parties involved – the school, the Methodist Church of Ghana and the Parents Teachers Association on one hand, and the Muslim Community in Ghana and the Ghana Education Service (GES) on the other to exercise the greatest restraint in their comments and pronouncements.
That, according to the NPC, was to prevent the issue from degenerating into any disturbance between Christians and Muslims, reminding all of how far they had come as a people by living together for centuries.
The Muslim Caucus in Parliament has entreated the Muslim Ummah and the public to exercise self-restraint in the Muslim students fasting issue at the Wesley Girls High School in Cape Coast. A release, signed by Alhaji Mohammed Mubarak Muntaka, called on the Muslim Ummah, Muslim students and the youth to continue to remain calm as Muslim leadership engaged all stakeholders connected to the matter including the Methodist Church of Ghana, the Ministry of Education and the Ghana Education Service (GES) to cordially resolve the matter in the interest of the country. It said the Caucus together with representatives of stakeholders of the Muslim community met with the leadership of the Methodist Church and had cordial discussion on the matter, and were assured by the Presiding Bishop Most Reverend Dr Paul Kwabena Boafo and his team that the Church would meet the Board of the School and the Ghana Education Service to resolve the matter.
Ramadan: Methodist Church rejects GES directive to allow Muslim students to fast LISTEN
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The Methodist Church Ghana has kicked against the Ghana Education Service’ (GES) directive to Wesley Girls High School to allow Muslim students to partake in the Ramadan fasting and prayers.
In a statement, the church said it took a “strong exception” to the directive stressing that it “cannot accede to the unilateral directive issued by the Ghana Education Service.”
It insisted that the Ghana Education Service “respects the long-standing partnership between Government and Mission Schools.”
It argued that the school rule in question “is a long-standing one which is also non-religious and various renowned Muslim ladies in Ghana have passed through the school adhering to such a rule.”
Methodist Church’s position against Ramadan fasting at Wesley Girls discriminatory – Minority LISTEN
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Minority in Parliament says the position of the Methodist Church Ghana on the Wesley Girls Senior High School’s decision to prevent Muslim students from fasting during the holy month of Ramadan smacks of discrimination on the basis of religion.
The church supported Wesley Girls High School’s decision in a statement released on Tuesday, May 4, 2021.
Speaking to
Citi News, the Minority Spokesperson on Education, Peter Nortsu Kotoe, said the Methodist Church s position is retrogressive.
“The position taken by the Methodist Church is not the best. They should allow every Muslim in the school to fast. We should not discriminate on religious grounds. Let us come together and move forward. The GES’ position should be accepted.”
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