Mohammed-Mubarak Muntaka, the Minister of Interior, has revealed that the school authorities at Wesley Girls‘ have asked girls to spy on muslim girls to make sure they don’t pray.
According to the Interior Minister, Muslim girls in Wesley Girls’ hide to pray as students spy on them.
He lamented that Ghana is playing with something that can degenerate our society.
Speaking on JoyNews on November 29, 2025, Mohammed-Mubarak Muntaka detailed, “Let me say this. And I sit here with the greatest of respect and with all my integrity. Wesley Girls ask girls to spy on even the Muslim girls to make sure they don’t pray. I’m told they hide. They have to hide to pray. Look, we are playing with something that, I’m sorry to say, can degenerate our society”.
“In the case of Muslims, women alone do not even do Friday prayers. It’s not even mandatory for a female, that’s why you see, when you go to most of our Friday prayers, you don’t even see them in large numbers, but see the elderly because it’s not mandatory,” he said.
Mohammed-Mubarak Muntaka further acknowledged some institutions that allow students of different religious faiths to practice freely without restrictions.
He mentioned the Presbyterian SHS and Achimota, praising them for providing space for students to worship.
He added, “My second-born attended Presbyterian Secondary School. They only have a place where they worship. It’s not a mosque, but they give them a space where they can worship.
“In Achimota, they’re given a place where they can worship, but they adhere to all the school rules. During break time, the prayer takes sometimes five minutes. Don’t criminalise it because they are criminalising on those campuses,” he stated.
Meanwhile, Most Rev. Prof. Johnson K, the Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church of Ghana, has said the Wesley Girls’ High School (WGHS) has accepted all faiths for over 189 years.
According to the Methodist Church, Wesley Girls High School is not engaged in any discriminatory practices since its founding in 1836 by Harriet Wrigley.
The statement highlighted that for nearly two centuries, the school has educated students from diverse faiths.
The Church revealed it has not been formally notified about the court case, but they are taking steps to obtain official records to enable its legal team to respond appropriately.
Parts of the statement issued by the Methodist Church read, “Over the years, WGHS has educated Methodists, Adventists, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Muslims, Eckists, Buddhists, Hindus, Atheists, Agnostics, Catholics, Anglicans, Presbyterians, Pentecostals and many others who have gone on to contribute meaningfully to society,” the Church said.
“The Methodist Church Ghana considers discrimination to be fundamentally inconsistent with Christian teaching, and therefore incompatible with our mission,” the statement added.
They emphasised that the school’s traditions and rules are designed to maintain unity, structure and fairness across the student body, warning that creating separate systems of living and worship for different faith groups would “inevitably lead to segregation and undermine the cohesion and collective traditions of the school.”
“We recognise and respect the constitutional right of every student to practice her faith or non-faith within the framework of WGHS traditions.”
The commotion follows Shafic Osman, a Ghanaian lawyer and PhD candidate at the London School of Economics, who sued Wesley Girls’ Senior High School and the Government at the Supreme Court.
The case filed cited Wesley Girls’ restricting Muslim students from wearing the hijab, fasting during Ramadan, and practising other aspects of their faith.
Meanwhile, the Supreme Court has ordered the Wesley Girls Senior High School to formally respond to allegations that it prevents Muslim students from practising their religion in the school.
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'Wesley Girls asks girls to spy on the muslim girls to make sure they don't pray. They have to hide to pray. We are playing with something that can degenerate our society.'
— Joy 99.7 FM (@Joy997FM) November 29, 2025
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