Seventy-three Muslim students at the St. Vincent College of Education in Yendi, Northern Region, have been punished for failing to attend morning devotion.
This resulted in the destroying of examination materials and vandalizing of school properties by some affected students.
They were asked to weed around the school football field for displaying an act of insubordination.
Information available to this paper indicates that examinations had been suspended until the punishment had been executed by the students.
According to the Muslim students, they thought they were being forced to practise Christianity with the continued morning devotion in the school, which they claimed is done throughout the week.
They indicated that they had devoted themselves to Islam and that the everyday devotion is an attempt to drag them into Christianity.
However they told DAILY GUIDE that they do not have a problem if the religious exercise is carried out once a week saying, “It’s everyday and they make us sing Christian songs and all that.”
When DAILY GUIDE contacted the Principal, Dr. Erasmus Novio Moti, he confirmed the incident but quickly said that the students were punished for failing to be part of the assembly.
According to him, they refused to do the punishment and so the school authorities decided not to allow them write their examination.
Dr. Erasmus Novio Moti hinted that the said students rather went and vandalized examination papers of other students.
“Instead of them addressing their concerns through the right procedure, they decided to take the law into their own hands,” the principal stated.
He disclosed that the Monday to Friday assembly is compulsory for all students, irrespective of their religious affiliations.
“The position of the school on the matter has been discussed with some officials of the Muslim Council from Accra,” he indicated.
The Municipal Chief Executive and the District Education Director are said to have intervened on behalf of the students, but insisted that they should do the punishment before they are allowed to write the exams.
Source: Daily Guide
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i am disappointed that muslim youth vanderlise school property when issues crop up.Islam is not about violence they should be law abiding or leave the school in peace.
Moro musa, you really displayed your ignorance. By the way, check your spellings anytime you want to comment. This is unforgivable.
It's unfortunate but we have to know that when you go to Rome you do as the Romans do
I think some of us are missing the point. Morning assembly is not a church. Christian prayers and songs are part of the daily morning assembly in such private schools since the school was founded on Christian principles. Those dissenting students have two choices: 1. Do not go to such private schools. You cannot change that aspect of their activities. 2. Leave the school.
Its just simple, if you don't like the rules, don't apply to the school in the first place. Christian schools are established based on the idea of spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ. so if you didn't want to be part and parcel of it, why did you applied for admission? I think they should expel all such students ASAP.
All school gathering are compulsory you must note.
Christians are becoming religious fanatics and intorelance. Is a school a church. How can a circular state belongs to christians. Chistians not be an educated iliterate because there are Islamic schools that have christians attends and nobody force them to go mosque. So christians want muslims that they heat them. So if a muslim something that will benefit a christian he/she should use it. Now if christian comes a muslim house to preach the word of God, the muslim have chase christian out of his house with knife. Christians should stop dirty evengerlim. After all christian pastors in Arab countries arabic language which christians dislike. Their pastor decived them and the pastors go to muslim countries to seek their greener pastures they learn arabic. They are hypocraties. They dont want to live with muslims so they muslims dont know Jesus Christ. In arabic language, God is the same as Allah, Jesus Christ is the as Anabi Issah, Abraham as Ibrahim, Moses as Musa. Christians are always fermenting troubles and turn around and accused muslims of trouble makers. Christianity is not the only religion in the world.
What is this? Before you enter a school you must know the laws and regulations in the school. You don't enter a private school and expect the school to change because of you. That is arrogance!
The school is clearly named St. Vincent College of Education, not Imam Ibrahim College of Education. What did they expect when they applied and enrolled in the school? And to turn round and make it look like their faith is under attack is shameful and even unIslamic. Ghana would fare better without these kinds of characters undermining our peace in the name of religion.
They should be sanctioned accordingly. Can any Christian go to an Islamic school and dictate what the authorities do?