BY: Heritage news online/prince Yunus/2024
The long awaiting dream of owning an institution in its’ name and management is now over, as, the maiden Ah-lu sunna Wal jamaa’a senior high secondary school, is set to begin admitting freshers into the newly built senior high school facility to help in educational, religious and social development of students across the country.
Although the school project is facilitated by the Techiman branch of the ASWAJ, it is regarded as the dream project for the entire ASWAJ community globally.
” It is worth mentioning, the project is the brain child of Techiman Aswaj, however, we regard it as a collective effort by the entire ASWAJ community in the country and beyond” Sheikh Mansour Anas, a member of the board of management intimated.
Speaking with Yunus Swalahudeen wakpenjo, editor of the heritage online, Sheikh Mansour intimated that, arrangement is far reached to handover the facility to government for mutual and efficient management. However, admission for the first Academic year, will be superintended by the interim management of the school until next academic year, when government will be expected to augment the school into the placement list to allow automatic admission of students across regions into the facility.
Sheikh Mansour also stressed that, second phase of the project is underway to enable facility accommodate as many students as possible as well as provide variety of faculty and contemporary logistics to make the school a model school to meet a national and international standard.
The maiden ASWAJ senior high school is expected to carry out the major courses run by various senior high schools in Ghana, as well as some distinct areas such as Islamic and Arabic studies.
Prospective and maiden students who would make their way into the Senior high school will have the privilege of possible memorization of the Quran and other Islamic knowledge pertaining to the tenet of the Ahlu-Sunnah Wal- jamaa’a .
Sheikh Mansour further intimated that, although the school is facilitated by the ASWAJ community, the facility is not peculiar to children of the Ahlu sunnah wal- Jamaa’a.
” When you go around the country, you see schools built in the name of missions and sects. but that is not to say, the school only admit student belonging to that community. However, apart from the regular curriculum, the ideology of the facilitators will somehow find its way into the running of various faculties. that is because the school has its goal calved around its ideologies” He emphasized.
Meanwhile, 2024-2025 Academic year placement is underway in all government managed schools in Ghana, However, not all students would be placed at the end of the exercise due to limited number of government’s managed educational structures or inability by some students to make the mark required to be placed. Nonetheless, School like ASWAJ senior high school is expected to enroll the residual numbers for the Academic year until government eventual takes over admission through placement.
the Current facility has class room block, eatery, wash room facility, mosque, laboratory of all purposes. The management has assured that, much investment is being made to ensure the completion of all the needed infrastructure before the next academic year.
” We have an aim, we know where we intend to reach with our plans, is our prayer that, the ASWAJ rises to become not only an Islamic sect, but partner in development where our activities will resonate with the collective development of our country and the Islamic community” He added
Sheikh Mansour stressed that, soon the ASWAJ will have university for all purposes in its name as well as modern health care facility. Adding that, individual Muslims and leadership of Ahlu- sunna have schools in their names. However, the time has come when the sect needs to do something collectively to ensure continuity and stability.
” What you see here, from the land and the architectural work, some people started and it got to our turn. because it is a community affair, even when one person is not around or a team seize to exist, the idea will not die because it belongs to a community and so it will continue” ………
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