The women’s wing of the Peoples’ National Convention (PNC) has singled out various religious bodies in the country for champion the labeling of women as witches in the country.
This comes after the lynching of a ninety-year-old woman who was termed as a witch at Kafaba in the Savannah Region.
In a video across social media, two young women were seen beating the helpless old woman as people looked on.
A statement issued by the PNC women’s wing signed by its organiser, Janet Nabla blamed “Pastors, Imams and the traditional believers” for sermons that constantly tagged women as witches.
“The Ghanaian woman lives in constant fear of being brutalised or lynched as a witch on a daily basis. Whereas all these things are happening, our religious bodies such as pastors, Imams and the traditional believers are mostly to be blamed as a result of their constant sermons that refer to women as witches in the media. These religious bodies are not usually reprimanded by the institutions that are put in place to sanitise our airwaves and to protect women and children such as the National Media Commission, Ministry of information and Gender Ministry,” the statement read.
It added, “this is evil, demonic and satanic and we must all rise up as Ghanaians to fight this cancer in our society.”
The PNC women further called on First Lady, Rebecca Akufo Addo and Second Lady, Samira Bawumia and the Ministry of Gender “to show to the women of Ghana that they have them at heart. It happened in Pelungu in the Talensi district in 2017 and they did nothing about it and it has repeated itself in East Gonja.”
Source: GhanaFeed.com