Hohoe (V/R), May 25, GNA – Muslims in Hohoe in the Volta Region marked this year’s Eid al-Fitr with individual and household prayers.
This is in line with President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s directive on social gatherings and ban on religious activities following the outbreak of the novel corona virus disease.
Alhaji Mahmud Issaka, the Hohoe Municipal Chief Imam, said due to the directive on social gathering, only households were permitted to hold prayers.
“Only households hold prayers and we did not allow people visiting each other as the normal celebration would have been,” he added.
The Chief Imam commended Muslims for adhering to COVID19 safety protocols during the fasting period and called on Muslims to continue to pray for the end of the Coronavirus virus pandemic.
Rashidatu Mohammed, a resident of Hohoe Zongo, told the GNA that the pandemic had affected family gatherings.
She said she would have had her families and friends around for merrymaking, but for the Coronavirus disease and was hopeful next year’s celebration would be better.
Some children were seen in merrymaking dresses at home with a few female adults preparing meals when the GNA went through the Zongo community.
Eid al-Fitr, also called the, “Festival of Breaking the Fast”, is a religious day celebrated by Muslims worldwide to mark the end of a month-long dawn-to-sunset fasting of Ramadan.
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