The Ahlussunna Wal-Jamat Muslim Sect is

embarking on a nationwide campaign on the significance of education, to reduce

illiteracy and ignorance among Muslims.
Sheik Umar Ibrahim, Chief Imam of the Sect who initiated the programme,

noted that it was time to eradicate ignorance and illiteracy, as the two bred

poverty and hindered the eradication of diseases and ill health.
The Chief Imam said this when he paid a courtesy call on Mr. Mark

Woyongo, Upper East Regional Minister on Monday in Bolgatanga.
He said the Sect would collaborate closely with the Islamic Education Unit

of the Ghana Education Service to enable it reach out to more Muslims with the

message.
Mr. Woyongo, in response, informed the Imam that Government was

committed to the development of the northern sector, to bring it up to an equal

level with the rest of the country.
He said the focus was more on agriculture, to put measures in place for an

all year round farming that would also boost sheanut and cotton production and

marketing.
He asked the Chief Imam to keep in touch with the Regional Coordinating

Council and NGOs that were into education, so as to avoid duplication of

activities.
The Chief Imam was accompanied by Sheik Yacoub Shaib Abban, General

Secretary, Sheik Anas Alhassan Musah, Brong Ahafo Regional Imam, and

Sheik Abdul-Razak Abdallah, Ashanti Regional Imam.