Coalition of Muslim organisations, Ghana (COMOG) has called on the Ghana Education Service, Ministry of Education and other stakeholders in The Education Sector to remove the Headmistress of Wesley Girls SHS from the school to avert religious conflict in The Country.
The COMOG at the news conference religious discrimination by ‘some schools and institutions in Ghana’, said, “the GES should as a matter of urgency remove the Headmistress of Wesley Girls SHS from the school to assuage the adverse psychological effects of her presence on the Muslim students”.
General Secretary Lawyer Shahadu Mohammed, further proposed sanctions should apply for the violation of the religious rights of Muslim students of the school in defiance of the directive from the GES.
They also called on the GES to reconstitute the board of the Wesley Girls SHS and further proscribed the Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church from being on any board of governors of any Mission School.
They again urged the GES to reconstitute the Board of the Methodist schools to include two Muslims, in order to keep track of any such occurrences and report the same when appropriate.
According to the Group “Government should as a matter of urgency direct the National Peace Council to resubmit their full report on the outcome of the March 30th-31st 2015 National Conference on Religious Tolerance at the Kofi Annan International Centre to Parliament for necessary action in the interest of National Peace”.
They again appealed to GES to issue, between now and next week unconditional directive to the Wesley Girls SHS and other schools within the week to allow Muslim students to observe all the Islamic obligations as it is their right to do so without prejudice to the rights of others.
Story by Edzorna Francis Mensah
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The is the most useless press conference that I have ever read of in the last 4 decades of my life. Is just like asking the rent controller to sack the LandLord because he forbids you from pounding fufu in his house. You’re a joke!!! What prevents you from building your own schools? You chose to invest your money in real estates, buying ship and putting up big hospitals all to expand your riches and you now what to dictate to someone? Errhhh eeerh eerrhhh don’t try. There will even be a time that orthodox or mission schools will give to only their members. The charismatic churches can’t criticise us and call us idol worshippers yet want us to trian their children for them. So you di3 back off kwraaa and let’s think. We have the capacity to take over our schools from the government and manage them ourselves. Don’t don’t don don try.
The report is useless as well. The journalist wasted time saying the same thing over and over. The journalist did not mention anythig that led to the press conference. What a waste of time…