The 2016 presidential nominee of the New Patriotic Party, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has assured residents of Zongo communities across the country that his proposed Zongo Development Fund, aimed at propping up infrastructural development and quality of life in the zongos (settlements predominantly inhabited by Muslims), will be an item in the 2017 budget, God-willing, should he win the 7 December elections.
According to him, the Zongo Development Fund, which he first announced in the 2012 campaign, forms part of a holistic policy approach aimed at gentrifying the Zongos, something which has never been done in Ghana’s history.
The disbursement of the fund, Nana Akufo-Addo added, will be done in consultation with the chiefs and leaders of Zongo communities across the country “to ensure it goes directly to the heart of addressing the developmental needs of Zongos.”
The NPP flagbearer said he was not surprised, therefore, that governing National Democratic Congress had, once again, started an aggressive campaign to discredit this policy, just as the party did when the NPP proposed the setting up of the Northern Development Authority and the Free SHS policy, in 2008 and in 2012, respectively.
In this regard, Nana Akufo-Addo urged Ghanaians not to pay heed to the NDC, stressing that they had shown over their eight years in office to have no plans or policies for the development of the country.
Nana Akufo-Addo made this known on Sunday, August 14, 2016, when he addressed the Council of Zongo Chiefs and Imams of Tarkwa, as part of his tour of the Western Region.
Source: Ghana/AccraFM.com
