Former Central Regional Minister, Kwamena Duncan has chastised the parents of the two Rastafarian students whose enrolment into Achimota Senior High School was denied by the school management.
To him, the Achimota/Rasta students brouhaha is ''not about the dreadlocks. It is about the child in the dreadlocks. It is about the Ghanaian child in the dreadlocks. One educated, all educated. One wayward, all wayward . . .This is an innocent child; he is not of a majority age".
Kwamena Duncan believed the students didn't have a choice but to wear dreadlocks because their parents suppressed them to do it.
"I ask this boy's father. How do you become a Rastafarian? Is it your father who imposed it on him by force? You got exposed to, you had become an adult; you had choices. The values, the norms of the Rastafari creed, you understood it on your own and accepted that, look, this is the way I'm going to go. Why then would you want to force it on your child?''
Discussing the issue on Peace FM's "Kokrokoo", Kwamena Duncan blamed the parents for the trauma that their children are currently going through as a result of the school management's decision.
"The values of the Rastafari creed is that they are people of love. They're charitable. So, train your child; let him grow in those values. Let him get exposed to those values and others and then, when he is of a majority age, he makes his decision," he said.
Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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Haile Selassie, the Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974.who remains the central figure in Rastafari ideology, and all Rastas hold him in very high esteem didn't have dreadlocks.Why are their Parents creating problems for the boys.Age 17 and 18 now going to SHS one already means they are older than most of their peers.Achimota School is not saying shave all the hair. Cut your dreadlocks and have Achimota school brand.How difficult is this?
HON,THAT IS THE PLAIN TRUTH!WHY IMPOSE YOUR BELIEFS ON INNOCENT CHILDREN?
If you go to Roman, do what the Romans do. You love the school and per their rules you cant wear dreadlocks among them for your stay there. for the love for these nices girls and your boy, just allow them to go through without their dreadlock. And per the wise advice from the former minister, allow the children to decide whether, they will be like you or not. to force them. One could see from their posture that they feel very bad and not in good mood atall. why rasta man. Did your parents forced the rastafarianism on you. You claim all we are this and that but before we realise, this your intelligent children will turn to be musicians, roaming about at shores our beaches smoking wee. wee. ntampi. You guys always lie,we are this, we that but ntampi paa you smoke. Allow this children to be trained and come out be what nature has gifted them and stop rastafarianism. Masta, if after their school and what ever , its only music industry or entertainment or so or self employment they can enter with the dreadlocks on and nothing else. You, dont reason up and listened to bad supporters. Mostly individuals choose to be rastafarians after entering into a future industry which entertains that. This is child abuse, and i suggest the government should take you on. You are infringing on the rights of your intelligents wards rasta man. the child abuse unit of government should take you on and safe this poor boy and girls to pursue better carrier
@kojo. we will take him serious. its not your fault. what is wrong the precious advice honourable Duncan gave to the parents of the poor boy and girls. its nothing but the truth. seriously i also feel so sad when i see what these intelligent wards are going through. ok so if all you guys support the rasta parent and you think the man is wise, why doesn't he also feel a little for his children by cutting the dreadlock, atleast for only 3 yrs. i believe at the tertiary level, they will be allowed. especially the boy should be made to cut his. As for the girls,its some how normal. You guys are supporting this n u i s e n se and when it also happens that gays and lesbians and wild body pierciers also surface, then you open your d i r t y mouse and speak against. its the same immoral life that is being discussed here. Ghanaians likes copy copy too much.you are always copying blindly. Even Bob Marley the Jamaican during his teenage ever cut the dreadlock for some reasons and later grew it.what was wrong with that. Have you guys ever head from Kojo Antwi the music legend ever complaining about his children being denied before.i guess his wards might not wear dreadlocks because their father is wearing. what sort ***barred word*** s u p port is that. Then every bad practice in society is a religion and so we must not tell them to obey rules and regulations. You guys should sit down and say human right, human right in the name of foreign imitations and fashions. have you ever read from the Bible what happened to sodom and gomarrah. G yi mi gy i mii
Ignore this sacked former Regional Minister. Don't accord him any attention. His loudmouth and waywardness have created problems for him. No doubt, a guy who paraded himself as the darling boy of First Lady Rebecca Akufo-Addo was booted out of government. Why should Ghanaians take him seriously?