The Western Regional Wellness Directorate in collaboration with the Regional Main Imam, Paramount Zongo Chiefs, and Council of Muslim Chiefs has suspended the easing of the ban on Islamic worship in Mosques in the area for an extra four months.
The choice in accordance to the Regional main imam, Dr Sheikh Ostaz Ali Hassan Ali, is thanks to the actuality that about 90% of the Mosques in the Area do not fulfill government’s needs for opening.
Therefore, letting obtain to mosques straight away would defeat the essence of the ban on religious things to do in March.
President Akufo-Addo on Sunday, Might 31 lifted a a few-month ban he placed on all religious actions like heading to the mosque but with some laid down steps to stick to.
Even so, the Regional Main Imam revealed that the disorders are unable to be achieved therefore the closure for a thirty day period to get ready toward the evaluate.
“We really don’t have the thermometer guns, we can’t also adhere to the social distancing protocol for now and worship in an hour.
“Imagine some mosques have as numerous as 1000 congregants on Friday, how do we phase them into hundred, and who do we avert from joining a individual batch of worshippers,” he described.
Dr Sheikh Ostaz Ali Hassan Ali, further more appealed to all Muslims in the Western Area to abide by the new directives to safeguard their wellness in this Covid-19 period
He additional that worshipers who defy the directive will not be spared.
Reacting to this new directive, the Muslim neighborhood expressed mixed emotions.
“We have stayed indoors throughout our holy thirty day period of Ramadan devoid of traveling to the mosque so the announcement by the president on Sunday was a reduction but what can we do it`s for our individual superior,” a resident, Osman Abubakar told Pleasure News.
Meanwhile, the Western Region has recorded 618 situations with 10 recoveries and a single demise.
