{"id":215484,"date":"2025-12-02T09:55:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T07:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-wesley-girls-issue-is-not-a-religious-fight-but-abuse-and-bullying-old-student-posits\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T09:55:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T07:55:10","slug":"ghana-wesley-girls-issue-is-not-a-religious-fight-but-abuse-and-bullying-old-student-posits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-wesley-girls-issue-is-not-a-religious-fight-but-abuse-and-bullying-old-student-posits\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Wesley Girls&#8217; Issue Is Not a Religious Fight, but Abuse and Bullying &#8211; Old Student Posits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">A former student of Wesley Girls&#8217; High School, Lawuratu Musah-Saaka, has stressed that the long-running concerns raised by some Muslim students are not about religion but about abuse and bullying that must be addressed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Speaking in an interview at Metro TV, she recalled that the issue gained national attention in 2021 when a first-year Muslim student wrote an emotional letter to her father during Ramadan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">The letter stated that students had been told not to fast. She noted that many parents would&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512020097.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former student of Wesley Girls&#8217; High School, Lawuratu Musah-Saaka, has stressed that the long-running concerns raised by some Muslim students are not about religion but about abuse and bullying that must be addressed. Speaking in an interview at Metro TV, she recalled that the issue gained national attention in 2021 when a first-year Muslim [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":215485,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[5099,258,256,11601,4345,4508,4509,7010,8922,257,53012,7994,254,11431,51224],"class_list":["post-215484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-abuse","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bullying","tag-fight","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-girls","tag-issue","tag-news","tag-posits","tag-religious","tag-south-africa-today","tag-student","tag-wesley"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}