Kwabena Bomfeh challenges state involvement in Hajj organisation, national cathedral
James Kwabena Bomfeh Jnr. is challenging the role of the state in organising or sponsoring religious activities in Ghana.
A writ of summons cited by Pulse.com.gh has complied the Attorney General to respond to the writ within 14 days.
He is seeking a relief from the Supreme Court to declare the state involvement in religious activities such as aiding, sponsoring, endorsing or preferential promotion as unconstitutional.
He is also seeking a relief that the setting up of the Hajj Board by the government for the purpose of coordinating, supporting and aiding Ghanaians Muslims to embark on Hajj as unconstitutional.
He is also asking the Supreme Court to declared the government support, aid, endorsement or assistance for the construction of a national cathedral as unconstitutional.
Mr Bomfeh, who served as the campaign coordinator for the Convention Peoples Party in the 2016 general election, filed the case in his capacity as a citizen of Ghana.
President Nana Akufo-Addo last month constituted a new Hajj Board to manage the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca.
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The 11-member Board is chaired by Sheikh Ibrahim Cudjoe Quaye.
And on March 6, the president cut sod for the construction of a national interdenominational cathedral.
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