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Martey 'ignorant' of Hajj processes

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  • YAM 11 years ago

    If you can aford so why is the poor moslems not going.

  • Afua Mobi 11 years ago

    ITS UNFORTUNATE A MAN OF GOD COULD MAKE SUCH AN IRRESPONSIBLE STATEMENT. THE RELATIONS BETWEEN OUR MOSLEM BROTHERS AND CHRISTIANS IN GHANA HAS BEEN VERY CORDIAL AND WE MUST TELL THESE PROFESSIONAL PREACHERMEN TO BE CAREFUL AN ...
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  • Nana Asare 11 years ago

    I THINK IT'S ABOUT TIME THE GOVERNMENT TELLS GHANAIANS HOW MUCH IT IS SPONSORING THE HAJJ.

  • Abubakar 11 years ago

    The hullabaloo about the pilgrimage to Israel is because Christians in NPP cherish NPP more than their religion. If govt wants to help Christians like they do for us Muslims, why make politics out of it. We Muslims are urging ...
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  • Nee 11 years ago

    Halija Haruna.You did not address the moderators concern.He did not say government shouldn't cordinate or facilitate the Hajj pilgrimage.His main concern is the funding from the public purse.Can't we source private sponsorshi ...
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  • Kofi 11 years ago

    Abu, going to Israel is not required in Christianity unlike Hajj which is required of any muslim who can make it. That is the difference. A pilgrimage to Israel is not synonymous to Hajj in Islam. Moerever Hajj is open to all ...
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  • Danso 11 years ago

    What is going on it looks like the Government has nothing on the table , we did not vote for Islam or Christianity we need water to drink and money for our brothers in the North

  • Braha 11 years ago

    The best comment yet. We need water, sanitation, electricity, education and work. Religion is a private matter and not a full time job.
    Ghana has turned into a religious country filled with non religious people.

  • tHE sHAKARA 11 years ago

    Alhaji Halidu Haruna's explanation is not clear enough. Is it a fact that no individual can make pilgrimage? Can Alhaji Haruna support his claim from the Koran? If so, how come that Muslims in the US are accepted as pilgrims ...
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  • hajia fatia owusu 11 years ago

    asem beba dabi

  • PV 11 years ago

    Hei Guys don't over blow what the Prof meant out of proportion. His comments are very reasonable. He did not even support his own christians to go Isreal, hence his suggustions. Respect your elders even when they slip in thei ...
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  • osei koko 11 years ago

    Pastor Martey again, abaa.

  • askia cyborg 11 years ago

    Why Martey ,you are so ignorant to the extent you think all moslems are ndc and so that unfortunate statement from your outfit. I feel sorry for you.

  • kofi abakah 11 years ago

    I thought being a man of God and a prof, idiocy and petiness will be out of martey's life, but I was wrong. Better solve problems in the presby church and leave Ghana to the elected one to rule.

  • babs 11 years ago

    to all those who think gov sponsor hajj programe should make relevant investigation before coming out with their argument.about 95% of pilgrims pay full package for the journey.the rest are party loyalist the gov send to hajj ...
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  • kb 11 years ago

    We are big liars! We all see public funds being used to 'facilitate' Hajj but no one can talk about it. Public funds are used for free education for the North people, non for those in the south. This discrimination will blow ...
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  • ANIMAL FARM 11 years ago

    The Hajj is limited to Muslims,so why should taxes of non Muslims be used to sponsor only Muslims to preform their religious rites.I believe Allah has made so many Muslims rich and they should be encouraged to sponsor their f ...
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  • abbas 11 years ago

    do u know the source of tax used to develop ur village and ur community, a lot of project being carry out in Ghana are Muslim countries aided

  • NII LARTEY NARTEY 11 years ago

    Where in the Koran is it written that poor nation like Ghana should sponsor some individuals to Mecca? Why should the state bear the cost and sponsor of some religious believers?

    Ghana is not an Islamic state and Saudi A ...
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  • abrentie 11 years ago

    ghana will never be a christian nation if u dont know ask ,secondly over 95% of hajj prigrimages paid full cost of the journey which $3100 usa dollars andi can boldly say the goverment is even making some profit which they to ...
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  • Nii Akwei 11 years ago

    Pure and Simple. The same applies to those who want to go to Israel. Damn You All.

  • Kantika 11 years ago

    If there is no sponsorship as some Muslims are claiming why was Chief Imam not happy that his entourage at the last year's pilgrimage where denied of protocol allocation? Again, a Muslim group in Bawku area came out that they ...
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  • AYAA ARMAH 11 years ago

    There is t00 much waste in the sytem yet we cann0t find m0ney t0 pr0vide basic needs 0f Ghanaians. Halidu's explanati0n is unc0nvincing

  • Bakari 11 years ago

    Haruna's response is not only shallow but misses the point Martey made. Using Governement money to buy tickets for people to go to Mecca is none of the business of Ghana government. No one is saying tha moslems should not go ...
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  • SMOOTH 11 years ago

    JUST LIKE FREE EDUCATION FOR NORTHERNES......EVERY GHANAIAN DESERVES IT, NOT JUST SELECTED GROUP

  • SMOOTH 11 years ago

    AFRICAN BLACKMAN IS NOT CAPABLE OF MANAGING A HOME LET ALONE A COUNTRY.....TOO MUCH GREEDINESS AND SELFISHNESS....THE POLITICIANS NEEDS WISDOM NOT JUST BOOKS...

  • WOOD CUTTER 11 years ago

    PROF (REV) MARTEY SHOULD UNCONDITIONALLY APOLOGIZE TO ALL MUSLIMS IN GHANA FOR HIS UTTERANCE ON THE SPONSORSHIP OF GOVT ON PILGRIMAGE TO MECCA. NO MUSLIM HAS WRONGED THE PROF (REV) MARTEY AND HIS RELIGIOUS BELIEVES THEREFORE ...
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  • Kantika 11 years ago

    Freedom of speech is guaranteed by the Constitution and even the President respects that therefore there is no need for apology. What he said is the truth as he sees it.

  • @@@@@@B 11 years ago

    Gov. has no business paying for any to go to
    Saudi arabia

  • Adongo Tongo 11 years ago

    Liar, Liar, Moslems in the US go on tha hajj without Uncle Sam's help. They do so as private citizens.

  • Skotsman 11 years ago

    The Alhaj has spoken well and i commend him. This is a government-govenrment affair and not phylantrophists. This is a compulsory requirement by every Muslem and not just a matter of travelling to spend the poor Ghanaian mone ...
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  • ARB 11 years ago

    Martey, mind your own business. Pastors or church elders should not be talking like fools.

  • ARB 11 years ago

    99% of Moslems pay for thier haji and government of Ghana pay nothing. The government even raise funds from the total cost of haji. Last year it was 3,100 US$ including VAT and NHIL which goes to the Government. The only thin ...
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  • REXFORD K 11 years ago

    People of today should learn how to talk to the elderly. What the prof said was right, should the government use my tax to sponsor someone to perform his/her religious rite? AFUA MOBI and her likes must come again.

  • Slimmart 11 years ago

    If Pilgrims are not recognized by Saudi authorities as individual travellers, what about those that come from other countries like the USA, UK, and France? Do they come as groups? No, no, no ........... They are individuals f ...
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  • abbas 11 years ago

    the arrangement is btn countries but not individuals, know it

  • JOE 11 years ago

    As a concern Ghanaian i don't think the MODERATOR said anything really in conflict with HAJJ as been perceived but rather be seen as "the interest of ordinary Ghanaian"Because under no circumstance the state should be made re ...
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  • abbas 11 years ago

    government is not spending any money on any hajj, period

  • kay 11 years ago

    No he is not, Mr Halidu! He has made a legitimate intervention, perhaps you should ask yourself if it is morally right for tax payers to pay for anybody to go on a pilgrimage? In any case why stop at only moslems and not othe ...
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  • baba 11 years ago

    Following comments on various networks on this story is worrying. One wonders whether we are all GHanaians. It is understood that people can be committed to thier faith and leaders. It is for this reasons that leaders like Pr ...
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  • yaw 11 years ago

    this prof. martey is becoming unbecoming. if he want to go into politics he should say so. why?

  • mike 11 years ago

    After taking money from the poor in the name of collection in church, buying big cars and given their selves big names now their against Christians traveling else where to play.so i ask ?why do they travel to abroad to feathe ...
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  • Nana 11 years ago

    I pay tax for public service provision. Government decides to use my tax to partly fund a private muslim's private Hajj to Mecca on the account that it's a pillar in their religion.How about non religious persons or persons w ...
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  • Dan,-No Sweat!,Tema 11 years ago

    Just look carefully at his lips and tell me what he takes. Homosexual is a sin what of Hard Liquor Mr. Moderator. If you don't take liquor then your own lips is exposing you work on it. Remember touch not my anointed is not t ...
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