Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide newspaper, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako Jnr., has condemned some religious leaders who hastily joined the bandwagon criticizing the Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE).
According to him, they should have double-checked their facts before coming out with their stand.
"Some of the religious leaders much earlier should have been circumspect and sought information and education. If some of them had taken their time to obtain the information needed perhaps, they would not have joined that mischievous bandwagon . . .” he said while contributing to a panel discussion on Peace FM's morning show ‘Kokrokoo’.
Religious Groups Say It's 'Satanic'
The Ghana Pentecostal and Charismatic Council (GPCC), an organisation made up of over 200 church denominations in Ghana, earlier described the plan to teach CSE in all public schools to children from five years upwards as "satanic".
"I won't call it Comprehensive Sexuality Education, it is Comprehensive Satanic Engagement," GPCC President, Rev. Dr Paul Yaw Frimpong-Manso told Kwami Nkrumah Tikesie on Okay FM's Morning Show last week.
Their counterpart, the Office of the Natioanl Chief Imam (ONCI) and other Islamic organisations in the country also waded in.
The Personal Assistant to the National Chief Imam and Director of the Youth and Interfaith Programmes of the ONCI, Alhaji Khuzaima Osman, strongly pointed out that the Islamic Muslim community in Ghana was united in the call for the CSE to be reversed.
"We appeal the Ministry (of Education) and the GES to drop that satanic agenda in the interest of national cohesion and moral promotion. The ONCI is joined by the Tijjaniya Muslims of Ghana, the Islamic Peace and Security Council of Ghana (IPASEC), the Islamic Council for Development and Humanitarian Services (ICODEHS), the Islamic Research Association of Ghana and the Association of the 16 Regional Chief Imams.
"We would like to state unequivocally that the Islamic community does not accept any form of educating minors and pupils on sexuality. In our estimation, such a move is an attempt to hide behind educational reforms to brainwash the pupils with LGBT agenda," he stressed.
President’s reaction
Over the weekend, President Akufo-Addo held separate meetings with Muslim and Christian leaders in Kumasi, where he spoke for the first time on the controversial CSE guidelines and assured that his administration will not introduce any policy that will be alien to the Ghanaian culture.
Prior to that meeting, the president addressed a congregation at the St Cyprians Anglican Church at Kumasi Sunday, the President said: "there have been talks in recent times about me and my government introducing some inappropriate materials into schools. I brought the Free SHS to strengthen our education and so I will not allow any immoral materials to enter our schools."
“I’m a Christian and as long as I sit as President of Ghana, I will not allow anything like that in our schools so I urge you all to be calm because I won’t let that happen,” he said.
Reacting to this, Kweku Baako Jnr. said the President’s speech was to cure the mischief that the CSE was an LGBT agenda superintended by him; adding, “he dealt with it in a political manner”.
CSE Origin
The Ghana government and United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), launched the CSE programme this year in a bid to empower adolescents and young people to attain a Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE).
Known as the "Our Right, Our Lives, Our Future (o3), CSE is supported by governments of Sweden and Ireland. It is being implemented in Ghana, Eswatini (formerly Swaziland), Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe for what proponents say will be an effective delivery of quality comprehensive programmes.
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What else do you expect an impotent man to say?
The man baako is a Hippocrates, a liar and selfish being.God had regretted creating him
Kwaku is right. Rev Prof Frimpong Manso publicly said on Joy Fm that "if what I've heard is true". Unfortunately, he proceeded to make very categorical statements. He should have been a bit guided. Unfortunately, the host of the show himself knew no better. Joy Fm is now a tabloid station ampa.
Ably aided by Daniel Dadzie and the crew from Joy FM.No wonder they are now referred to as the Tabloid Fm Station.
I AM UTTERLY SHOCKED AT KWAKU. ARE YOU SAYING YOU ARE THE ONLY WISE PERSON IN THIS COUNTRY AND THAT ANY BODY WHO SPOKE AGAINST THIS SATANIC CSE IS ***barred word***??? GOSH, WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE. YOU ARE RATHER DISPLAYING A LOT OF IGNORANCE ON THIS ISSUE BECAUSE YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THE INTENT IT AND THOSE KNOW ARE SHOUTING ON THE ROOF TOPS AND WILL CONTINUE TO SHOUT. KWAKU, YOU DONT KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON, YOU SIMPLY DO KNOW OR YOU HAVE BEEN PAID
CSE IS A SATANIC AGENDA. STD CASES IN THE USA HAS SHARPLY RISEN FOLLOWING ITS INTRODUCTION. WE WILL ALLOW CSE ONLY OVER OUR DEAD BODIES
Kweku is right this time. This is what we call arguing from ignorance from the most Ghanaians, including the clergy. The Pro Choice Group orchestrated this and strangely Ghanaians have bought into this with out cross-checking facts. It is now extremely difficult to defend this otherwise good program being implemented globally. The president panicked as well as the Min of Education. As for him he lied. Don't let us castigate a good program for the sake of it ignorantly.
Shameful
Just for the sake of defending Akuffo Addo this man said the police has the right to disobey our court
Kweku Baako thinks he is wiser and knowledgeable than everybody in Ghana. Initially, i used to admire him and made every effort to listen to him on Newsfile. I though his submissions were not political. But h i have realised that he is more than a politician. He is always defending whatever NPP does whether it is wrong or not. I am also an NPP supporter but i think that this CSE issue should be treated with all the seriousness it deserves. The devil is very cunning and clever so we should be smart in seeing what the western world is trying to introduce in Ghana. LGBTQ community is a very powerful community with a lot of money, Africans are also so gullible that they will accept every funding from the western world. Our religious leaders were very right when they vehemently spoke against it.