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Some nursing mothers with twins and triplets have taken to begging on the streets of Kumasi.These women beg to raise money to support themselves and their children.Most of these women have migrated from the north and many are Moslems.According to these women they were ordered by soothsayers after they have given birth to twins to take to begging or their children will die.And in order to save the lives of their children these women have resorted to begging on the streets for money.They sit under the sun along dusty roads begging for alms.However, Moslem clerics have condemned the practice as un-Islamic.Speaking to Joy News, Sheik Isshak Ibrahim Nuamah, a Moslem cleric who is also writing a paper on the subject of begging has said that Islam frowns on begging, but when he sees these women he sympathizes with them.He added that the soothsayers also known as locally as mallams tell these women to go begging because they lack training and insight in Islam.He argues that begging is rooted in culture and not in religion, and calls on the social welfare department in the country to take up the responsibility of taking care of the underprivileged in the society.
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