Tema, June 15, GNA – The National leadership of Tijjaniya Muslims Movement of Ghana (TMMG) has called on the Muslim community to be ambassadors of the 2021 Population and Housing Census (PHC).
The leadership encouraged its followers to avail themselves to be counted as the census promise to guide policymakers in pursuit of national development.
In a statement copied to the Tema Regional Office of the Ghana News Agency the movement appealed to Ghanaians particularly Muslims to participate in the process.
It noted that Ghanaian Muslims challenged the low percentage allocated to them during the last census in 2010 and for that matter this year’s census offered them an opportunity to be counted in the interest of national development and enhancement of good governance.
It also urged all Imams to consider the census as the subject matter for their Friday sermons for greater participation.
According to the leadership, it was reported in an authentic Hadith of the Holy Prophet Muhammad in Sunnah Ibn Majah and Tabbarani that Prophet Muhammed (SAW) had once ordered for Muslims to be counted for various reasons in the city of Madina.
“On the basis of this Hadith, we appeal to Muslims to regard the census as a civic duty and a religious responsibility,” the statement stated.
The Population and Housing Census 2021, with the slogan “You Count, Get Counted,” is scheduled to take place on the night of Sunday, June 27, 2021 christened as the Census Night.
The Census Night will be the reference point for all information to be collected on the population and mark the beginning of enumeration phase from June 28 to July 11, 2021.
Tijjaniya is a Sufi Path to Divine Worship originated from North Africa precisely Algeria, as its birth place and later Morocco as the resting place for the Founder of the Movement.
It is the largest Sufi Order in Africa and the fastest growing non-violent Islamic fraternity in the world.
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