Assembly to protect classrooms from church activities
Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies in the country are battling with churches for the use of public school infrastructure for worship and church activities.
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A number of the public schools at the weekends are always busy centres of the activities of churches including worship and this has a potential of damaging the infrastructure, especially the furniture.
Assembly session
This came up prominently at the general assembly session of the La Nkwantanang Madina Municipal in the Greater Accra Region, where the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), Mr Franklin Anku announced that the assembly was taking steps to regulate the activities of churches in the public basic schools in the assembly.
He said the need to regulate the activities of church was necessary because, "as an assembly, if we do not regulate such actions, it may create problems for us, sooner than later.”
It would be recalled that the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) gave directive stopping the use of public classrooms as places of worship because of the negative effect their activities pose to the infrastructure.
Mode of worship
Some of the worshipers are noted for hitting hard at the tables, walls, windows and the doors of the classrooms, “to drive away satan”, a situation, assemblies are worried could reduce the life spans of the infrastructure.
Recommendation
At the meeting Mr Anku recommended that before any public school infrastructure is used for church activities, approval must be sought from the assembly, "subject to report submitted by the Education Directorate.”
"May I also humbly request that the House refers this to the Social Services Sub-committee to fashion out the terms and condition under which an approval is given,” he said.
