Legal practitioner and Executive Director of the Ark Foundation, Angela Dwamena Aboagye, is calling for the restriction of the religious and cultural rights in the 1992 Constitution.
Her demand comes in the wake of several doom prophecies that have been witnessed in the country. Year in, year out, litany of doom prophecies of influential persons in the country who will die are made by some self-acclaimed prophets.
The latest was the death of dancehall diva, Ebony Reigns. Known in private life as Priscilla Opoku-Kwarteng, Ebony died with two others in a gory car crash at Bechem in the Brong Ahafo region aboard a jeep with registration AS 497—16.
She said there should be restrictions on the exercise of Article 26 of the 1992 Constitution which states: “Every person is entitled to enjoy, practise, profess, maintain and promote any culture, language, tradition or religion subject to the provisions of this Constitution.”
Addressing a conference on prophetism in Ghanaian public life Wednesday February 21, she said: “If we are going to subject ourselves to things that may prompt to make laws to guard public safety or public order because we cannot discipline ourselves in the exercise of our rights then we should think again because especially, as religious institutions the last thing we want is for our faith to be imprisoned.”
Making reference to Article 21 of the 1992 constitution, she stated that a law could be made if reasonably required for the purpose of safe-guarding the people of Ghana against the teaching or propagation of a doctrine which exhibits disrespect for the nationhood of Ghana, the National symbols and emblems or incite hatred against the members of the community.
Source: Ghana/Starrfmonline.com/103.5FM
