Hawzah News Agency-The debate whether or not to allow Muslim women to wear hijab to work has been revisited in Ghana as authorities at the Asokore-Mampong Municipal Assembly in the Ashanti Region are asking officials of public institutions to allow Muslim women wear hijab at work.

The Municipal Chief Executive says discrimination and attempts to compel Muslim women to go against their faith must stop.

Nuru Hamidan gave the directive at the induction of over 100 community health nurses under the youth empowerment agency.

The MCE warned public officials who cannot abide by the directive would have to leave the jurisdiction, "all nurses within the jurisdiction should wear their views," he said.

However, he added that the institutions can enforce the use of a prescribed veil that will ensure uniformity.

He sounded a word of caution to health facilities not to discriminate against the veiled Muslim women after the Municipal Coordinating Director had issued a directive urging all to observe it and allow the system to work.

In 2015, the spokesperson for the Health Ministry, Tony Goodman, said the Ministry will not condone any blatant disregard for the rules after a Muslim nurse working at the Mamobi General Polyclinic was reportedly asked to go home for wearing her hijab to work.

Mr Goodman said this was “because we have issued express directives instructing them to allow people to practice their religion in their own way and not in this manner.”

The nurse's explanation to her superiors for her decision to wear her hijab was ignored even after she referred to the Health Minister’s directive on the matter.

According to the Muslim nurse, the principal nurse at the hospital week issued a directive to all Muslim medical officers not to wear their hijab to work a week earlier to the sacking.