Church denies ban on school, work

The Sacred Action Church has denied media publications suggesting that it had banned its members from attending school, as well as working.

The Church said, “the issues raised about her banning her members from attending school and also working are fallacious.”

Recent media publications have accused the Busua branch of the church in Western Region of banning its members from sending their wards to school and also working with the rational that Jesus Christ did not also go to school.

The publication generated a lot of media debate about the doctrines of the church and its impact on the future of its members and the country at large.

The church claimed the publication thus likened the activities of the branch at Busua to the violent activities of Boko Haram in Nigeria which is against what they describe as ‘western education.’

But addressing a press conference in Accra yesterday, President of the Church, Rev. Ackah Cobbinah noted that the leadership of the church was very aware of the importance of education in national development from ancient time to date.

Rev. Cobbinah therefore noted that due to the importance of education “it becomes crystal clear that any organization or group of people or individual that prevents children from going to school is an enemy to development and therefore a bad citizen.”

He added that some of the church elders were retired educationists who have established schools in some parts of the country adding that “the mother church herself has two basic schools at Aiyinase and Basake accredited by Ghana Education Service.”

The President of the Church explained that after the publication came to their attention, an emergency National Executive Council meeting was held where Elder Mark Sowa, the man at the center of the accusation was invited to answer questions.

According to him, the Elder refuted all the accusations leveled against him and added that “we believe that as an elder of the church he could not have acted in contravention of the rules of the church.”

He added that further investigations conducted by the national leadership showed that the allegations were “unfounded.”

On the issue of banning its members from working, the President noted that there were members of the church who own big businesses and thus would be bad for them to ban members from working.

He said the “Sacred Action Church is a church of no-mean standing. Founded in 1948, it has branches in Western, Central, Ashanti and Greater Accra Regions and also in the Ivory Coast and Italy.”