{"id":349904,"date":"2017-09-01T17:00:58","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T17:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=349904"},"modified":"2017-11-10T12:34:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T12:34:00","slug":"educate-girls-to-address-poverty-nana-addo-to-muslims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/09\/educate-girls-to-address-poverty-nana-addo-to-muslims\/","title":{"rendered":"Educate girls to address poverty – Nana Addo to Muslims"},"content":{"rendered":"
President Nana Akufo-Addo is encouraging Muslim parents to ensure that their children, especially girls, are enrolled and made to stay in school.<\/p>\n
According to him, that will help address challenges such as poverty and disease in their communities.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”dZo2pjjo0otT8bxnrW5FwLaUEUHQRc66″]President Akufo-Addo made the comment in his speech at the national celebration of this year’s Eid-ul Adha at the Independence Square in Accra.<\/p>\n
He said Muslim parents must take girl child education “seriously”.<\/p>\n
\u201cI cannot end my statement without urging the education of the Muslim girl or woman. We must take the education of the girl child seriously\u201d he said, adding that \u201cwe shall be perpetuating, ignorance, poverty, and disease if the trainers of generations of Ghanaians remain uneducated.\u201d<\/p>\n
While urging the Muslim community to embrace the government’s Free Senior High School education program, Akufo-Addo explained that Ghanaians will be in a better place to practice their religion if educated.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2026The prophet Mohammed is reported to have said that \u2018knowledge is the last property of the believer, let him or her find it wherever he or she will.\u2019 I believe the Muslim should embrace this policy because it allows the fulfillment of prophetic admonishment.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are in a better place to practice our religion if we are educated. The free Senior High School policy eliminates one of the major barriers to seeking secondary education; poverty. It is my fervent belief that it is an educated population that can accelerate the development of our country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He also said the free SHS policy will help parents who hitherto could not afford school fees due to poverty to enroll their wards.<\/p>\n