The Ghana Muslim Students Association (GMSA) has appealed to parents in the Zongo community to put premium on education to help fight poverty and ignorance.

Alhaji Alhassan Issah, Ashanti Regional Imam of the Association, said they should do everything to ensure that their children pursued academic careers.

This, he said, was the best legacy they could leave them with and the only way they could expect that the Muslim youth was not to be left behind by globalization.

Alhaji Issah said this when speaking at the inauguration of the Elite College branch of the association at a ceremony at Ayeduase, in Kumasi.

The event brought together other students from the Saint Louis Senior High School (SHS), Jachie-Pamso and KNUST SHS.

Mr Jonathan Annan, Director of the College, reminded the students need to be disciplined, law-abiding and to distance themselves from acts likely to ruin their future adding that it was also important for them to respect and tolerate followers of other religious faiths so as to promote harmony within the school environment.

Hafiz Adams, the branch President, said their goal was to help the Muslim youth to conform to acceptable standards of social behaviour and project a positive image of Islam. **