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Wesley Girls asks students to spy on Muslim girls so they don’t pray - Muntaka alleges

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  • Osei Kwabena 10 months ago

    Frankie, you have said it all.

  • I LOVE MY NDC 10 months ago

    Will the Muslim community gladly accommodate a Christian, get to the Muslim Nigeria and you will understand. Any Muslim who chooses to study from a Christian college should be ready to abide by the rules for in that particula ...
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  • Martin A 10 months ago

    Simply put, Wesley Girls is a public high school founded by christian missionaries and funded by taxpayer money. As such it cannot discriminate against students who are moslems. No one's primary objective of enrolling in that ...
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  • Mk 10 months ago

    In the first place nobody asked the government to support any mission school. The mission has always made their intentions clear to take their institutions back but government has refused. It’s because the mission can take ...
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  • Jack Toronto 10 months ago

    Christmas also pay taxes

  • Anonymous 10 months ago

    They ceased being private schools having government funding.All students be allowed to practice their faith without being forced to practice Christianity.Muslims aren't asking that Christian students should not practice their ...
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  • SD.com 10 months ago

    Stop the nonsensical comment. I went to Abetifi Presbyterian secondary many years ago; we all had to obey the rules including going to church on Sundays.,and evening that same day. Your faith didn't matter.

  • Cole 10 months ago

    That is stupid. The popes enter mosques and the chief imams enter churches. It's not a fight. The Bible and a Christ did not preach forcing people to be Christian or practice Christian faith . God gave us free will and human ...
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  • Kojo 10 months ago

    Well said.

  • Complete BS ** 10 months ago

    You are genuinely smart and eloquent. Well done . I love your small write up . Well done again .

  • SIGMA, LONDON 10 months ago

    Please let the court decide for amicable settlement. For a Minister taking sides is like Israel v Gaza war!

  • Anonymous 10 months ago

    Stupid fool! Who made Ghana a Christian country? Does Ghana having Christians as majority mean it is a Christian country? Ghana existed before the Europeans came with slave trade hidden as Christianity.
    Another thing you s ...
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  • SANDRA 10 months ago

    PLease SAVE me my feLLow Ghanaians, i'm a 24 years oLd Ghanaian Lady that was scammed by some Nigerians, i'm currentLy stranded in Nigeria, it aLL started few months ago when i got a WhatsApp message that a traveL agency in N ...
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  • Tex 10 months ago

    Hey Mr. Hon Minister please don’t fan the fire. Where is the tension coming from. I’m beginning to understand that your agenda was to pack Wesley Girls with muslem girls. Stop this indirect attack.

  • Kwaku Tee 10 months ago

    Muntaka Mohammed is part of those Criminal Moslems turned politicians ,packing the mission schools with their kids.I understand 2 of his sons went to PRESEC Legon even though they had weak Grades. His colleagues have also ta ...
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  • Martin A 10 months ago

    You danced around the subject and said nothing of substance. The so-called christian schools are funded by taxpayer money and therefore it's unconstitutional to discriminate against students based on their religious beliefs. ...
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  • The Spear 10 months ago

    Very lazy Martin, I won't help you to think. You're as lazy as Muslims who's rather use their money to marry or go to Mecca instead of building schools.
    Who's running about looking for a way to stampede fundamental precepts ...
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  • Accra 10 months ago

    First check who made him a minister. That person claims he's a Christian, but all his children have Muslim names, so.....

  • mohammed mutallah 10 months ago

    calling this dirty animal honourable

  • mohammed mutallah 10 months ago

    aboabo arm robbers chief,what tension aboa ba go and build your terrorist schools .stinking animals

  • FACT 10 months ago

    That is the big lie from the Muslim liar.
    God is not even a Muslim or a Christian.
    It is simple... You are a Muslim: Don't go to a Christian school. Simple commonsense.

  • Che Andrew 10 months ago

    Absolutely! Muntaka and Haruna are disappointly many of us who though they were beyond this level of childishness. This so-called Muslim discrimination is Christian schools is a new agenda some Muslim intelectuals are trying ...
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  • Methodist Boys Brigade 10 months ago

    Journalists please go and interview Bawumia. Why is the dancing goat hiding his face like he did when inflation hit 54%. The kwasea goes silent since he is a hypocrite. An Arab

  • Enyo 10 months ago

    Silence is golden!! Foolish man!!

  • Nana 10 months ago

    This is a blatant lie Mr minister!

  • 12345 10 months ago

    this interior minister must be reshuffled. An asawase man must not lead such a sensitive position as interior ministry,he's going to instigate and forment troubles oo

  • GOLDEN 10 months ago

    MUSLIM STUDENTS ARE SUPPOSED TO ATTEND ONLY MUSLIM SCHOOLS,PERIOD!!!!!!!! WHY IS IT SO DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND THIS SIMPLE LOGIC???????????????????
    GHANA IS A PEACEFUL CHRISTIAN COUNTRY AND SHOULD REMAIN LIKE THAT,MUSLIMS
    S ...
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  • Yoo 10 months ago

    Pathological Liar of a minister of state. What a jon!

  • FRANKIE 10 months ago

    Thank you Bro. Kwabena. I'm happy smart people like you are reading through the lines. But they'll fail.

  • Adwoa 10 months ago

    This is way below you, Mr. Minister.

  • OTREBOR 10 months ago

    THIS PUBLIC COMMENT FROM THE MINISTER OF THE INTERIOR, AND ALSO OF NATIONAL SECURITY, ON SUCH A SENSITIVE NATIONAL ISSUE IN TOTALLY UNNECESSARY.

  • Kweku 10 months ago

    Please, Ghanaian politicians, don't take your NDC and NPP politics to Wesley Girls High school and destroy the school for Ghanaians. The Methodist Church of Ghana has been able to develop this prestigious girls school with it ...
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  • Send your religious bigot girls to makaranta ok? 10 months ago

    Massa muntakar, stop that bullshit talk and unfounded statements and send your moslem girls to makatanta ok? Leave the Wesley girls ,Methodist church , and Christian’s alone . Nobody forced your religious bigot girls to foc ...
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  • Star from the North 10 months ago

    No mission school should never make a mistake of allocating a place of worship on campus to these Muslim terrorists. Because of their bad behavior, they will assume ownership of the particular spot allocated to them and never ...
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  • Truth 10 months ago

    U are lying...give us evidence? Stop these things

  • Nana yaw 10 months ago

    Eiii muuuuntaaakaaa, eiii eiii eiii

  • Adante 10 months ago

    I believe the minster is trying to overly defend the Muslim religion. If christians could a wonderful school like Presec and wey get hey, why can't the Muslims also built one?.
    You only build wonderful mosques and leave edu ...
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  • Che Andrew 10 months ago

    Fact is that they haven't been able to establish a single prestigious school in Ghana. Why is that so? That's what Muslim leaders should be asking themselves and finding answers for, instead of crying like babies who want to ...
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  • Koti 10 months ago

    And you are a minister? You are told and you believe in hearsay! Why these threats? When the Churches were collecting monies from their members to build these schools your men were buying cows and sheep and your women were bu ...
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  • Alhaji Buga Buga 10 months ago

    Mohammadu Bawumia will be president of Ghana. Insha Allah

  • Nana 10 months ago

    THE METHODIST CHURCH HAVE TO OPEN THEIR EYES BECAUSE THIS TWO MINISTERS CAN BRING PEOPLE TO COME TO BONB ANY OF SCHOOL OR THE CHURCH. NEVER TRUST MUSLIM.

  • Is this not MP Pampers? 10 months ago

    Mr. Pampers, you have been stealing from us for how many decades now? Do you think we have forgotten when you went on a shopping spree for pampers and made Ghana pay for it?
    The Presbyterian congregation in my poor village h ...
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  • Muntakar has started fooling again 10 months ago

    Gyimisem nkoaa na these people dey do . They should come and see how as a member of the Methodist church Ghana member I have to pay Methodist development fee . This fee helps finance all Methodist schools in Ghana , and we su ...
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  • Akosat 10 months ago

    Mr. Minister, I believe that is monitoring from the seniors and not spying....the next moment Muslim girls will ask to get a prayer spot and time to pray. "..Teach the child how you want them to be and they would never depar ...
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  • Asakramitoga 10 months ago

    Muntaka don't waste our ears
    If you want est you will have it
    Why don't you build your Madrasas for your Muslim students.

  • Thomas 10 months ago

    When they are a minority they talk about religious tolerance but when in the majority tolerance is replaced with sharia. Hypocrites.

  • Accra 10 months ago

    Yes oooo

  • Marquis 10 months ago

    Nonsense Mr Minister. Be moderate as a leader and ensure we live in peace

  • Augustina Quayson 10 months ago

    Please Muntanka, please as for this spy thing it is out of the ordinarily. Please how would a school set up spies on other's Please Muntaka, we are living in peace
    Please don't bring conflict when there is none

  • Fk 10 months ago

    Nobody will breach and cannot breach the constitution.
    If you cannot fund a mission school that was built by missionaries and handed the school to government to be resources you cannot impose your regious norms on the studen ...
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  • Akosat 10 months ago

    That's the more reason why, you should establish Muslim High School. Don't go causing trouble in someone's home.

  • Wasteman 10 months ago

    FOOOL WHAT IS THE MEANING OF CRIMINALISATION?!!…

  • Buluu 10 months ago

    Minister this is not true. The last PTA meeting it was mentioned that they can pray by their bedside individually. However there is not time and space to have an organise prayer for all.

  • Ayitey 10 months ago

    Master, what tension are you talking about? You and Haruna Iddrisu shouldn't use your position to impose things on us. If you and your identity groups think that you are extreme muslims, please kindly relocate to Saudi Arabia ...
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  • Kwabee - shai 10 months ago

    What are these politicians trying to achieve. It is said that politicians start wars......... let's beware!

  • Buluu 10 months ago

    This debate will ruin the chance of Moslem becoming a president in Ghana

  • Truth Table 10 months ago

    Jesus is the ONLY way to heaven.
    This is the good news for all mankind.
    The rest are fake.

  • ABC 10 months ago

    Why didn't the Minister tell us about how the Muslim Schools like T.I. Ahymadiyya are providing prayer space and time for the Christians there.

  • Che Andrew 10 months ago

    Oooh! Minister for Interior should go beyond this babish "hear-say" mentality. It is shameful. As the Minister for Interior when you hear such things you pay an unofficial visit to the schools, talk with the authorities about ...
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  • Thief of Staff - Akosua Frema 10 months ago

    Muntaka is such a stupid fool. I don't know why John Mahama has given him this sensitive ministerial appointment. Such a senseless and gormless fool.

  • Never 10 months ago

    How can a minister speak this way. I don’t blame you, I blame Akuffo Addo for his shambolic performance which has led to people like you becoming a minister

  • Kwame Nkrumah 10 months ago

    This is to target women Muslim leadership. Are there no Wesley girls old girls who are in leadership positions?

  • Never 10 months ago

    I will not take this man serious again. Your religion has marginalized the female to the extent that even in the mosque they are relegated to the back. You should be thankful for having education for your female children, els ...
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  • TRUTH STANDS 10 months ago

    All christian mission schools should add CHRISTIAN to their names:
    Example: PREMPEH CHRISTIAN COLLEGE,
    MFABTSEPIM CHRISTIAN COLLEGE
    etc.
    This would clearly tell you that CHRISTIANITY is practised in th ...
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  • Nsia 10 months ago

    Useless Muntanka is sitting in Ghana doing bugger-all about the heinous crimes being committed by Nigerians on our soil. Yet, this hopeless Minister of Interior is spitting feathers about some utterly useless Arab culture whi ...
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  • nii ga 10 months ago

    FOOOOLS JUST STOP ATTENDING CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS
    OR GO TO MAKARANTA...NKWASIAFUO

  • Be Serious 10 months ago

    There's no need coming out with this. You're an educated politician and had to act as one. Such pronouncements will only worsen the issue.

  • Aboa 10 months ago

    This stupidity from a so called honorable minister should stop. Wesley girls has been there since time immemorial. Since the advert of Bawumia then moslems start trying to jostled Christians aside. They are trying to overrun ...
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  • BE REASONABLE 10 months ago

    And so?

  • Quadjo Bedu 10 months ago

    Hon. Muntaka, you are the one fanning religious tension in Senior High Schools. Be prepared to take responsibility if the seeds of discord you are sowing begin to bear fruits. Let mission schools be what they are meant to be.

  • NANA TRUMU TRUMU ADDO 10 months ago

    NO MOSLEM WILL EVER RULE GHANA. SIMPLE!

  • You can't fixed stupid for real !!! 10 months ago

    This is what happened for electing a slow person like mahama as a president .. how in the hell that this person became a minister??? now this N'tafour have a nerve to tell Christians what to do... Ghana can never move forward ...
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  • God of Mercy 10 months ago

    This is one reason we can never allow a Muslim to be a president in Ghana never would that happen in the Mighty Name of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. Amen. It’s a Christian school and let be so. Stop the nonsense.

  • You can't fixed stupid for real !!! 10 months ago

    Ever since mahama became the president we have all type of nonsense going on in this country... they started with;;; from Akwaaba to Obaak3 and now they want to force Christians to do the will of Muslims ... what the heck is ...
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  • You can't fixed stupid for real !!! 10 months ago

    Is it by force to go to Christian school as a Muslim in Ghana??? Massa, shift !!!

  • When you go to Rome do what they do 10 months ago

    Do what the Romans do when in Rome

  • Yellow man 10 months ago

    Voting for Bawumia will make things worse in ghana. Conflict will start between Christians and minority Muslims and the terrorists in the region who are looking for a port to capture will take advantage and decend to the sout ...
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  • Kwam 10 months ago

    Why are we doing these to ourselves. Is the Hon Minister telling Ghanaians there is not a single First Class Moselm SHS in the country? That is a big shame to all Moselm scholars in Ghana. Ideally if we had enough of these re ...
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  • Asakramitoga 10 months ago

    You are a liar. Not fit to be a minister for the interior

  • mohammed mutallah 10 months ago

    he free all moslem arm robbers also incite violence behaviour on their youth together his chief imam.terrorest group

  • Pressman 10 months ago

    So this government wants to tell us that they don’t know what it takes to do to an institution receiving subvention or financial aid from the government, and refuses to abide by the laws of the land or abuses the fundamenta ...
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  • Peace First 10 months ago

    And you think the Mission schools can't take care of themselves if the government withdraws? Let them try it and see. They would even do better than what they are doing right now. When Notre Dame in Navrongo was in the hands ...
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  • KOFI 10 months ago

    This statement from a Minister is rekless. Spying on who for what!

  • Kojo 10 months ago

    This is preposterous Minister. Are you saying it's Wesley Girls official policy that Muslim student must be spied on. Peer bullying even if that is the case cannot be labelled an official of Wesley Girls. In your submission o ...
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  • Towncrier 10 months ago

    LIAR!!!

  • Know your boundaries 10 months ago

    Leave Wesley girls alone
    Muslim girl dont choose Wesley as the name denotes its not Muhammad whose name is on it

    Leave Christians alone

  • Towncrier 10 months ago

    I like NDC but Mahama got it wrong by putting you in that most sensitive ministry as Minister of Interior. May Jehovah turn His anger on you such that all Ghana shall know that He, the LORD, has dealt with you!

  • Koppong 10 months ago

    We are all correcting pretty colonial mistakes. allow the poor minority to have their freedom

  • Christian 10 months ago

    I encourage the Christian based schools to start rearing pigs and using pork to feed the students, and I bet you the so-called Muslims who desire for Christian schools instead of their Muslim schools will run away

  • Kofi Sam 10 months ago

    Mr minister you should've been diplomatic a bit in your pronouncements. I think you should have met the relevant stakeholders and thrash things out. Your comments may not help either way.

  • galamsayer 10 months ago

    dont encourage civil war and you will be the first to be killed.

  • Oko 10 months ago

    Ahmadiyyas who have schools are quite on this matter but Sunis and Shias you don't have. Please don't bring religious conflict. Asked the security services to wear your hijab. Don't try to dilute what Wey Gey has taken years ...
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  • Onipaba 10 months ago

    And so bloody what.Just get lost with your bloody Naabugashi Moslem sentiments.

  • King Deed 10 months ago

    So even within your religion, there's discrimination against some group of people(women) yet you are allegedly fighting discrimination of another form!!! Nkramofoɔ ankasa, you be trouble.! We traditional african religion wil ...
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  • Nihoa 10 months ago

    Master learn how to talk, no more propaganda. Why must Muslims have their way through in everything thing in Ghana? The mission schools have their tradition once you decide to go there, it very simple follow their rules, that ...
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  • Nuumo 10 months ago

    Unintelligent statement.
    Trouble maker.

  • Ozymandias 10 months ago

    Muntaka, encourage your fellow Muslims to advise their children not to choose Christian schools, and for them to build their own schools. That will solve the problem once and for all. You can’t eat your cake and have it at ...
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  • Mk 10 months ago

    Is this guy in that position to serve Ghana as or serve a particular religion. He should be immediately removed from that position. Is this the reason we put him there? Why all this nonsense. Wesley girls will remain firm wit ...
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  • NII 10 months ago

    Haruna and Muntaka your comments are not the best in reference to the subject matter. Please respond taking off your religious cap.

  • Aziz 10 months ago

    they went to school to study or to pray??
    foolishness

  • Godfred 10 months ago

    The confusion of definition of public. For something to be public, it must be owned by the public. If another entity can challenge it, it’s not public. Public funding does not equate public owned. Financial aide throughout ...
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  • Kanawu 10 months ago

    We can never allow a Muslim to be president.

  • Asamoah 10 months ago

    Muntaka, stop this foolishness. Can a christian attend makranta to read the Bible? Get real and let's focus on whjat unites us as a peolpe

  • Kojo 10 months ago

    Please can those attended or atend Muslim schools weigh in with examples of their schools who give Christians or other religions a place or room to also practice their faith. What I have so far read is Christian faith schools ...
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  • Francis Boateng 10 months ago

    A minister of Interrior should not talk like Mr Muntaka is doing.It is a shame.What does he want to achieve with his silly talk? He should know that SHS are not universities where students are at liberty to do what they lik ...
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  • awaret 10 months ago

    Muslim mosque loudspeaker noise at 4 am is senseless and is disturbing Christian's when they are sleeping. A lawsuit should be filed against such mosque noise.