By Morkporkpor Anku
Gomoa Pomadze (C/R), Jan. 10, GNA – Justice Saeed Kweku Gyan, Naib Ameer lll of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission, says peace and justice are important for the sustainable progress and development of any nation.
He said chaos, tensions, conflicts, and war only hindered improvements and contributed to under development of society.
Justice Gyan was speaking at the 92nd Annual National Jalsa (Convention) 2025 of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission.
The three-day Convention is on the theme: ” Justice and Peace- The Essential Ingredients for National Development.”
The Convention is to enable every sincere individual to personally experience religious benefits and enhance their knowledge and due to their being blessed and enabled by Allah.
He said it was obvious that justice and peace were a universal construct and imperative in human development.
“There cannot, therefore, be any true and sustainable development in any nation, state, or community without a firm foundation of peace and justice being present,” he added.
Justice Gyan said peace stemmed from the existence of an orderly society, and justice emanated from fair dealing and ensuring everyone their due and preventing inequality and inequity.
“I believe that it is this situation that can minimize agitation and restlessness among the people of any nation, which tends to generate or create violent conflict that undermines stability and national security, thus stultifying the sustainable progress and development of the nation,” he said.
He said peace and justice could only be the essential and rational condition for sustainable and meaningful development, since violence and conflict disrupted productive activity and even destroyed what had already been achieved.
He said the on-going Bawku Chieftaincy conflict, which had been left to fester and had led to the senseless slaughter of many innocent Ghanaian citizens was a typical example of an ugly spectacle of human conflict as well as monstrous evidence of the terrible damage that the want of peace and justice could cause to an important part of our country and hinder development.
Justice Gyan said millions upon millions of the nation’s scarce resources continued to be squandered on the security forces deployed in Bawku and its environs in a vain attempt to ensure peace and security.
“Peace, therefore, connotes the maintenance of a just order in society and the primary resolution of conflict through non-violent means to facilitate the progress of the State,” he added.
Alhaji Maulana Noor Mohammed Bin Salih, Ameer and Missionary-in-Charge, Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission, who addressed over 50, 000 participants said Ghanaians had shown goodwill to the President by emphatically endorsing him.
He said Ghanaians were no longer in the mood of giving the abuse of their emotions and trampling upon their rights to God and at this time of the country’s history as a people, Ghanaians were demanding justice if there must be peace.
“They demand pragmatism, a human pursuit of practicality over and above aesthetic qualities, a concentration of facts rather than emotions or ideals or for that matter empty loud noise and deceitful promises only,” he added.
He said Ghanaians had aken a cue from a sentence in a song of an American singer that “Money can’t buy me love”.
The Ameer said all the prevalent disorders and inherent dangers to the Nation’s peace were from the concept of nepotism and cronyism.
“Our version of the obnoxious racism which once existed in Nazi Germany is nepotism and cronyism,” he added.
He said while racism was the root cause of distinction between different Nations, and tribes, the result of nepotism and cronyism was the same as that of racism, particularly political nepotism and cronyism which is now the political order of the day in Ghana.
He said there could never be justice in the face of political and economic nepotism and cronyism.
GNA