Former President John Mahama says the Akufo-Addo led government is not using the Zongo Development Funds for the right course. Mr. Mahama at a meeting with Executives of the Federation of Muslim Council on Tuesday sais the funds must be used to address major challenges of the people who lived in Zongo and not ‘insignificant things
“We don’t want to come and put up a ‘romantic’ Zongo Development Fund for show and use it to make football pitches for people to play, teach our women how to cook waakye among others,” he said.
He continued “We think that the issues facing the Muslim community are bigger than that. Access to education, how we put the children in school and keep them in school so that they don’t drop out.”
The Flagbearer of the opposition, National Democratic Congress (NDC) further asked, “what is the access to health care in the communities?” Stressing that these infrastructure and utilities are what the government needs to prioritize so as to solve the development disparity in the country.
Parliament in November 2017 passed the Zongo Development Fund Bill which seeks to establish a Fund to speed up the development of Zongo communities into centers of opportunity.
Government explained that Zongo communities in the country have over the years been bedevilled with infrastructure deficits, lack of social services and poor sanitation and promised to provide 50 million dollars for the Fund when established.
Addressing the media, General Secretary of the federation of the Muslim Council, Alhaji Mohammad Addo also accused government of discriminating against Muslims arguing that there is no Muslim represented on the religious and chieftaincy advisory board.
“There is no single Muslim represented on the board. They are about nine on the board; the Minister, his deputy, former minister, about 4 ministers of the gospel, no Muslim is on the board.
“And for a Ministry that seeks to administer issues regarding religions in the country including Muslims, we can’t fathom why a Muslim shouldn’t be on that board.”
Source: Primenewsghana.com
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Shutt up Mr. Mahama. We havent forgotten the stuup1d way your administration and Agambila intentionally wasted funds meant for Savanah regions. We are still waiting for the Guinea fowls that flew to Bourkina to return. ABUFU SEM. YOU AND AKUFO ADDO ARE IDENTICAL TWINS WITH SHARED BRAINS. ***barred word*** to the nations cause.
The Propagandist Former Prez and Flag-bearer Mahama. Tell us what you would do differently when the unfortunate happens to Ghana and stop all these cheap politics.
Why Ghanaian's do not see the lies this vice president are going around and saying? I am not a fun of any party or president but in terms of development Akufo Addo and his talkative competent vice cannot march incompetent President Mahama. Airport Terminal 3, the expansion of Tema Harbour and Tema round about, University of Ghana hospital just a few. But Talkative Vice president will come and talk as if they have created heaven in Ghana. But check the video by this organization called Crime Check Foundation videos then you will see the suffering Ghanaian s are going through. Competent Vice does not see anything wrong with Bank of Ghana taking tax payers money to go and print this ***barred word*** 100 , and 200 Ghana cedis. This Sleeping government waste 1 million Ghana cedis on this referendum and cancel and competent Bawumia do not see any thing wrong with that. Ghanaians, you people should tell Bawumia what is going on in Ghana if he does not see it. He should to Crime Check foundation and talk to them okay. They are saying free SHS but people come to Crime Check foundation to beg for school things, including well fed Zongo people according Vice Bawumia the talkative.
We the Zongo dwellers appreciate what this government is doing for us and continue to do.This will be transformed into votes come December 2020.Eye Zu Eye Azaa.Now we the Zongo people will shine our eyes during the elections,I know you have the money bring them we will collect and vote against you, after all they are Ghana stolen money.
You aren't ashamed of yourself mr Mahama, you talk as if God did not give you a head to dream and have foresight for the country, I always say you weren't ready to rule Ghana, it was by chance and your utterance in power and now in opposition is an evident of that.you only know how to talk about things that will take you 30 years to dream about, sorry, you are being irrelevant of late
I felt very sad watching JDM on TV making this unfortunate statement. At least the projects are visible for us to see. What happened to your SADA?
You had clear 4 years and some jaara months to rule as the President of this country.You also had over 3 years as a vice president.Can you tell/show us any "significant" project or intervention your administration did for the Zongo community? Ghanaians are very much awake and will not fall for this empty 'Reviewing' campaign.
You this Kofi guy I don't you are serious.
Mr Former President, what did you do to this Zongos when you were in power for 8 years.
John Mahama did not just waste 8 years of our national life, he actually took us back some 30 years. Imagine this government had started without the spiralling interest payments on the power purchase agreemts, the rotteness in the banking sector that consumed a huge chunk of our national budget? Imagine. Imagine this Mahama had not been at the helm of affairs to have allowed our national resources to leak from the national coffers through SADA, to Burkina Faso? Imagine where we would have been with a Government that within 2.5 years has energized the countryside with Planting for Food & Jobs, etc etc, and sent our kids to school for free. Imagine, imagine, imagine...