Minority Chief Whip, Muntaka Mubarak has warned the Akufo-Addo government to drop its plans of handing over mission schools in the country back to the churches or face legal action.
Mr. Mubarak made this declaration in reaction to the president’s promise of giving the mission schools back to the churches while speaking at the graduation ceremony of Trinity College in Accra Saturday.
The president believes the takeover of the schools by the churches will give them more control to arrest declining moral standards in schools.
As part of their operations during the colonial era, the churches established these schools to better their socialization with the people.
But a 1984 take-over of their schools, placed their administration and management under government control.
Earlier this year the Catholic Bishops Conference called on the government to cede control of mission schools to the church to address the deteriorating state of discipline and values in these schools.
But the Minority Chief Whip believes handing the 575 out of a total of some 872-second cycle schools will be in contravention with the laws of Ghana and inimical to the interest of the common man and therefore, warned that he will drag the government to court should this materialize.
Mr. Mubarak told Joy News: “There may be constitutional issues that some of us will test at the Supreme Court because you cannot hand over national assets to one group”, he said.
Besides that, Mr. Mubarak believes handing over the schools back to the missions will lead to indoctrination and radicalization of the students.
He also dismissed the statement by President Akufo-Addo that the churches do not have enough control of the schools claiming that, “in such schools, you’ll have to be one of them to be headmaster”.
Source: myjoyonline.com
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Fellow Ghanaians, it will be a very big shame to Ghana if mission schools are handed over back to the missions. are they Ghanaians,the free she education is meant to sideline some school because private institutions are to benefit from the So called Free SHS. people getting aggregate 40 getting better senior high school while an aggregate 10 students not getting school. is this a free she in Ghana? Rasmussen
U talk as if by threat of going to court we are afraid and by that u have won the case. Go go go ***barred word*** By the way have u paid for the cost of the pampers?
WHAT IS MUNTAKA TALKING ABOUT? THESE MINORITY PEOPLE DON'T SEEM TO BE INTELLIGENT AT ALL. I OWN MY SCHOOL, YOU TAKE IT FROM ME, DON'T RUN IT BY THE CHURCH STATUTES, GIVE IT BACK TO ME TO PUT IT BACK ON TRACK AND MUNTAKA AND HIS MINORITY BABIES SAY WHAT? HONESTLY, THIS MINORITY IN PARLIAMENT HAVE BECOME A NUISANCE. NEED THEY COMMENT ABOUT EVERYTHING. ARE MOST ISLAMIC SCHOOLS NOT BEING RUN MY MOSLEMS? ***barred word***.
Build schools instead of building mosque in any available space. Indoctrination is done in churches and not in schools. And Ghanaians believe the reasons why Islamic states like Turkey and Iran is occupying all available space in the country with mosque instead of schools. I wish owners of such mission schools go to court to retrieve their schools. Instead teaching meaningful programs in the few Arabic schools, you guys sit there singing Arabic songs and indoctrinating the vulnerable youth.
AND HE IS AN MP? OH MY GOSH! NO WONDER GHANA WAS IN REVERSE FOR THE 8 YEARS NDC WAS IN POWER AFTER RAWLINHS 19 YEAR RULE. VIONLESS...VISIONLESS...VISIONLESS...!!!!!
Ah ah nsemfoo ahi, take the lead we will meet you there