I fear politicians - Islamic leader

Maulvi Mohammed Bin Salih, the Head of Ahmadiyya Mission in Ghana has expressed fear in politicians and the way they continue to draw religious leaders into partisan politics.

He lamented over the prediction that characterized the 2016 presidential and parliamentary polls.

The situation he noted was unfortunate and happened because of political influence.

According to him, Ghana is a study case for everybody and anywhere in the world when it comes to religious stability.

Ghana he said is one place where all the religious bodies corporate, live and work together and there is harmony.

‘’And so as far as the political scene is concerned, we don’t really have a problem. It is very stable and it is one place you can comfortably rule out religious conflict because it’s almost non-existent. Much earlier yes, there was but like I said, we’ve overcome that. We’ve grown and we continue growing. My only fear is the politicians because they try to draw the religious leaders into politics…The recent elections that we had, you find some of the political parties getting some of the religious leaders onto their side. They’ve been predicting this will win, predicting that will win. And so on and so forth. That was not the right thing to do. But the religious people will not just come and do these things without the interference of the political parties. They led them to that. But all said and done, it is not bad for Ghana.

We are okay, we are good and I think the peace we are enjoying in Ghana is good for everyone to see.’’

He was speaking on the sidelines at the 2017 Jalsa Salana in the UK.