GA-DANGBE YOUTH ANGRY OVER EXCLUSION OF TRADITIONAL PRAYERS AT GHANA @54

The Vice President of the Ga-Dangbe Youth Association, Nii Maama Marquaye has express the youth unhappiness against the government for the deliberate exclusion of traditional prayers today at the Independent square to mark the 54th anniversary of the country.
He says Ghana is either a Christian or Islamic nation but a secular state hence it is not right for the organizers to exclude traditional prayers at such an important national event.
According to him, this is not the first time the NDC government have deliberated exclude traditional prayers in a national celebration.
He stress that countries like Japan, China and the Korean Republic have develop and progress because they have never gone out of their tradition.
He explains that the traditional rites are gradually been eliminated in the country’s history.
‘Everybody is not a Christian either is everybody a Muslim, some of us a strong traditionalist and hence our religious values have to be represented in state functions’, he emphasized.
He warned that if the government wants to eliminate them she should inform them so that they also eliminate themselves as part of Ghanaians, he stressed.
Nii Maama Marquaye explains that this is not the first time and this he says is not the best. He stress that it is a calculated event and he is surprise the President is been tangled into this issue.
He said the government have infringe on the freedom of express and association stipulated in the constitution.