Sheikh Aremeyaw Shaibu who is the spokesperson of the National Chief Imam Alhaji Shaykh Usman Sharubutu has spoken about the ongoing Ramadan issues in our high schools and has captioned it as a gang up against Muslims in the country.
He made these statements after the Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference and the Christian Council of Ghana threw in a support to the actions of the Methodist Church-Ghana concerning their disapproval of Muslim students in the Wesley Girls Senior High School having the privilege to fast on the school premises.
The Men of God said, “We have discussed the issue prayerfully and have studied the various press statements that some stakeholders have released on the matter”.
“We wish to endorse the position of the Methodist Church Ghana, which they succinctly outlined in their May 4, 2021 press release, and reiterate that the decision of the Wesley Girls Senior High School authorities on fasting is purely in the interest of the students.”
They further explained that “Even in the more adv anced democracies in the wrold, such a space is granted the various churches in the running of their respective mission schools.
“Therefore, we respectfully wish to state that the Ministry of Education, GES, or any other stakeholder must not undermine the Codes of Conduct of the various mission schools, which have ensured their discipline and high academic standards for almost two centuries in Ghana.”
Sheikh Aremeyaw Shaibu on The Key Points Tv program on TV3 on Saturday May 8, also said,
“In Presbyterian Boys Secondary School (PRESEC) which is one of the best schools in this country, we have Muslim students there, they have a patron in the school who caters for their needs in matters of discipline. They pray in school, they fast and do everything”.
“These practices have never reduced the academic ranking of PRESEC”.
“My worry is the ganging up by these big Christian organizations, the Ghana Catholic Bishops Conference and the Christian Council not taking a step back to look at this dispassionately but rather endorsing this”.
Source: ghgossip.com
