Ahlussunna sect promotes education among Muslims
Bolgatanga, June 2, GNA - The Ahlussunna Wal-Jamat Muslim Sect is
embarking on a nationwide campaign on the significance of education, to reduce
illiteracy and ignorance among Muslims.
Sheik Umar Ibrahim, Chief Imam of the Sect who initiated the programme,
noted that it was time to eradicate ignorance and illiteracy, as the two bred
poverty and hindered the eradication of diseases and ill health.
The Chief Imam said this when he paid a courtesy call on Mr. Mark
Woyongo, Upper East Regional Minister on Monday in Bolgatanga.
He said the Sect would collaborate closely with the Islamic Education Unit
of the Ghana Education Service to enable it reach out to more Muslims with the
message.
Mr. Woyongo, in response, informed the Imam that Government was
committed to the development of the northern sector, to bring it up to an equal
level with the rest of the country.
He said the focus was more on agriculture, to put measures in place for an
all year round farming that would also boost sheanut and cotton production and
marketing.
He asked the Chief Imam to keep in touch with the Regional Coordinating
Council and NGOs that were into education, so as to avoid duplication of
activities.
The Chief Imam was accompanied by Sheik Yacoub Shaib Abban, General
Secretary, Sheik Anas Alhassan Musah, Brong Ahafo Regional Imam, and
Sheik Abdul-Razak Abdallah, Ashanti Regional Imam.
GNA