Wesley Girls fasting brouhaha: Back off, let women handle it – Brigitte Dzogbenuku tells men in leadership

The 2020 flag bearer of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP), Brigitte Dzogbenuku has called on the men in leadership who are handling the Wesley Girls, Muslim fasting impasse to step aside and allow women to handle and find lasting solution to the development which was threatening the peaceful co-existence between Muslim and Christian community in the country.

Speaking on TV3‘s KeyPoint on Saturday, May, 8,  monitored by the GhanaPlus.com, Ms Dzogbenuku, a former student of the Wesley Girls School said perhaps the man were not helping matters hence women should be allow to handle it since the school at the center of the controversy was an all girls institution.

She described the issue at hand as a small matter which need not to be handle with the kind of egoist approach which had characterized it so far.

“Two things and I think I may get into troubles for this but I will say it, we have a bunch of men deciding on a small issues in an all girls school, may be you should back off and let us the woman handle it, thank you”, she said.

“Yes we have a bunch of men in leadership, fighting ego, over something small that is happening in an all girl’s schools, may be they should take a look at it and back off and let us take care of our school,” she added.

Wesley Girls,Muslim fasting Impasse

The Wesley Girls Senior High School, in Cape Coast in the Central Region, a Methodist School had been in the news recently following the schools refusal to allow Muslim students partake in the Ramadan fast currently ongoing.

The development had raised cause for concern for the sustenance of the Muslim -Christian relationship in the country after the Methodist Church rubbished directive from the Ghana Education Service(GES) to allow the students to fast with a condition parents accept responsibility for their wards health during the period of the fasting.

The Parent Teacher Association(PTA) of the School and the Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference as well as the Christian Council of Ghana, have all thrown their support behind the Methodist Church stands not to allow the students to fast citing health reasons as basis for their decision.

Source: GhanaPlus.com