Senior Vice President of IMANI Africa, Kofi Bentil, has criticised the annual ban on noise making enforced by the Ga people ahead of their Homowo festival, describing it as an imposition of tribal religious tradition on a secular state.
According to him, the country risks facing a major crisis if traditionalists who storm churches to enforce the one-month ban are not stopped.
In a Facebook post on Monday, May 19, sighted by ModernGhana News, the policy analyst stressed that Ghana is governed by laws—not by tribal or religious customs.
“We will soon have a tragedy on our hands if the authorities don’t stop traditionalists from lawlessly invading churches in the name of enforcing a ban on noise making!
We are a nation under law, not tribal religious traditions!” he wrote.
The ban, which took effect from Monday, May 12, to Thursday, June 12, 2025, requires churches to conduct services within their premises and refrain from using musical instruments.
Loudspeakers placed outside churches, mosques, and pubs are also prohibited, while roadside evangelism is to be suspended for the period.
The Ga traditional authorities uphold the ban as a sacred practice linked to their agricultural calendar.
They believe noise disrupts the gods and negatively affects the success of the planting season.
The one-month observance is, therefore, meant to ensure peace, spiritual reflection, and a fruitful harvest.
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Another he goat without brains. Do these churches adhere to EPA laws on noise making if indeed Ghana is govern by laws? These churches came and met our traditional laws if you don't know. You should rather advocate that funerals should be banned because it is not govern by any laws. This stupidity on our traditions must stop. This is our identity and not what a whiteman tells you what to do. Zombie.....