Peace Council meets Chief Imam over Weygeyhey’s continuous discrimination against Muslim students
- The National Peace Council has met with the National Chief Imam over the impasse between the Wesley Girls’ Senior High School and its Muslim students
- Muslim students were stopped from observing the just-ended month of Ramadan
- The Peace Council pledged to find a lasting solution to the problem
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The Chairman of the National Peace Council (NPC), Rev. Dr. Ernest Adu-Gyamfi, on Monday, held a meeting with the National Chief Imam, Dr. Sheikh Osman Nuhu Sharubutu, over the Wesley Girls’ Senior High School (Weygeyhey) impasse.
Source: UGC
Authorities in the school stopped Muslim students from observing the just-ended month of Ramadan.
There have been several backs and forth regarding the school's reason why they do not want the students to fast.
The Christian Council of Ghana (CCG), and the Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference (GCBC) issued a statement supporting the decision by the school and the Methodist Church.
Sources told YEN.com.gh that the meeting between the National Peace Council Chairman and the National Chief Imam aims to bring an end to the impasse between the Muslim community and Christians over the decision by authorities of Weygeyhey to prevent their Muslim students from fasting.
Rev. Dr. Adu-Gyamfi briefed the National Chief Imam of the Council’s efforts to resolve the impasse between the school and the Muslim community.
He told the Chief Imam that there had already been a meeting between the Council and the Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church, the Parents Teachers Association (PTA) of the School, Old Girls Association of the School, and the Ministry of Education, Ghana News Agency reported.
According to the NPC’s Chairman, there will be within the next two weeks a memorandum of understanding (MoU) governing all mission and public schools in this country
The document will specify clearly what are the rights, privileges, and also responsibilities of every individual who goes to those schools.
“And we want this document to be documented and signed by all parties who agree to it; that at the end of the day, once you take that document, everybody knows what can be done and what cannot be done,” the Chairman said.
“We believe that if this is pursued to its logical conclusion, this matter would come to an end, that Ghana would not see this again,” he added.
Meanwhile, Fathia Ayodele Kareem, a former Weygeyhey student, opened up about her three years’ stay at the Cape Coast-based school.
Kareem attended Wesley Girls High School from 2006 to 2009.
Narrating her torturous ordeal in a Facebook post sighted by YEN.com.gh, Kareem who is now a Medical Doctor said authorities at her alma mater prevented her from contesting for the school’s prefectship because she is a Muslim.
“I have previously mentioned being passed over for prefectship which I believe was because I am Muslim. Like most things surrounding what Muslims can and can’t do, can and can’t be, nothing is spelt out plainly so everything is obscure and ambiguous for a reason,” she wrote.
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