Sustainable progress depends on peace and justice - Naib of Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission

The Naib Ameer Ill of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission (AMM), Justice Saeed Kweku Gyan, says peace and justice are important for the sustainable progress and development of any nation.

He said chaos, tensions, conflicts and war only hindered improvements and contributed to the underdevelopment of society.

Speaking at the 92nd Annual National Jalsa (Convention) 2025 of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission at Pomadze, Justice Gyan said it was obvious that justice and peace were a universal construct and imperative in human development.

Over 50,000 participants attended the convention.

Convention

The three-day Convention is on the theme: "Justice and Peace- The Essential Ingredients for National Development."

The Convention is to enable every sincere individual to personally experience religious benefits and enhance their knowledge due to their being blessed and enabled by Allah.
Justice Gyan said peace stemmed from the existence of an orderly society and justice emanated from fair dealing, ensuring everyone had their due and preventing inequality and inequity.

"There cannot, therefore, be any true and sustainable development in any nation, state or community without a firm foundation of peace and justice being present.

"I believe that it is this situation that can minimise agitation and restlessness among the people of any nation, which tends to generate or create violent conflict that undermines stability and national security, thus stultifying the sustainable progress and development of the nation," he said.

He said peace and justice could only be the essential and rational conditions for sustainable and meaningful development since violence and conflict disrupted productive activity and even destroyed what had already been achieved.

Ugly spectacle

The AMM Naib Ameer Ill said the ongoing Bawku Chieftaincy conflict, which had been left to fester and had led to the senseless slaughter of many innocent Ghanaian citizens, was a typical example of an ugly spectacle of human conflict, as well as monstrous evidence of the terrible damage that the want of peace and justice could cause to an important part of our country and hinder development.

Justice Gyan said millions upon millions of the nation's scarce resources continued to be squandered on the security forces deployed in Bawku and its environs in a vain attempt to ensure peace and security.

"Peace, therefore, connotes the maintenance of a just order in society and the primary resolution of conflict through non-violent means to facilitate the progress of the state, he added.

The Ameer and Missionary-in-Charge, Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission, Alhaji Maulana Noor Mohammed Bin Salih said the outcome of the 2024 election showed that Ghanaians were no longer in the mood to give the abuse of their emotions and trampling upon their rights to God and in this time of the country's history as a people, Ghanaians were demanding justice if there must be peace.

"They demand pragmatism, a human pursuit of practicality over and above aesthetic qualities, a concentration of facts rather than emotions or ideals or for that matter empty loud noise and deceitful promises only, he added.

The Ameer said all the prevalent disorders and inherent dangers to the nation's peace were from the concept of nepotism and cronyism.

"Our version of the obnoxious racism which once existed in Nazi Germany is nepotism and cronyism," he added.

He said there could never be justice in the face of political and economic nepotism and cronyism.