Vice-President Dr Bawumia
The President of the Council of Zongo Chiefs in the Ashanti Region who is also the head of the Frafra community in the region has prophesied that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) will produce the first Muslim President in the country and soon, he added.
Chief Musa Akambounga
made the prophecy during the 10th anniversary celebration of the Al Wahda Club
of the NPP at the Kumasi Central Mosque; he asked Muslims to disabuse their
minds of the erroneous notion that the part was anti-Islam and Zongos.
The NPP, he said, loved
and cared about Muslim communities more than any political party in the
country.
According to him, the
various policies and programmes being implemented by the Akufo-Addo government
for Muslims and the Zongo communities show how the NPP loves and cares about
Muslims especially Muslim communities.
“At first we thought
it was the NDC that had the Muslim community and Zongos at heart, but what the
NPP government has done, shows that it is the NPP that really cares about
Muslims. We should support NPP to continue to implement policies which will
have good impact on our Muslim communities. NPP is not an anti Muslim party but
people say that because of propaganda and cheap politics,” he said.
Chief Akambounga pledged
that the association would continue to support NPP and explained government
policies to the good people of Ghana.
Under the NPP the
country has, for the first time, a whole ministry devoted to matters pertaining
to the development of the downtrodden Zongos. There is also an implementing
agency, the Zongo Development Fund whose activities have started changing the
face of the 3000 Zongos across the country.
When President Akufo-Addo made the promise of taking such initiatives when he won power, the NDC sneered at it, describing it as mere propaganda.