By
Yussif Ibrahim,
GNA
Kumasi, Feb 19, GNA – The Vice President, Dr.
Mahamudu Bawumia has urged Muslims to be key actors in Ghana’s quest to achieve
another milestone in conducting a peaceful election this year.
He said Muslims were major stakeholders in
national development and must actively participate in all electoral processes
seeking to deliver a credible election that would be accepted by all Ghanaians.
Speaking at the 52nd celebration of the birth
of Prophet Mohammed at Aboabo in Kumasi, the Vice President said Muslims had a
critical role to play in ensuring a peaceful election in December.
Thousands of Muslims belonging the Tijania
sect gathered at the Aboabo School Park for the annual event hosted by Sheikh
Abdul Wadud Harun Cissey, President of Tijania Muslims in Ghana.
Also in attendance was the Former President,
John Dramani Mahama, Sheikh Osmanu Nuhu Sharubutu, the National Chief Imam and
several other Islamic Clerics.
Dr Bawumia said people in Zongo communities
who were predominantly Muslims were tagged as violent due to the activities of
a few miscreants and charged Islamic leaders to counsel the youth to stay away
from politicians, who may want to use them to perpetrate violence.
He said the Prophet stood for peace and as
followers, Muslims must be ambassadors for peace in all their endeavours to
serve notice for people who turn to Zongos in their quest to commit mayhem.
He admonished the Zongo youth to tell
politicians who engage them for any form of electoral malpractice to recruit
their families first, saying that, there are machomen in every family in Ghana.
According to the Vice President, Allah had
blessed Ghana as a peaceful country and government was determined to sustain
the peace for accelerated development.
He said Ghana was progressing under the
leadership of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and the Zongos were not left out as
government continued to commit more resources for the development of Zongos
across the country.
Zongo communities, he observed, received
massive infrastructural development and other social amenities under this
government than any other under the fourth republic.
Dr Bawumia further indicated that no
government since independence dedicated funds and an entire ministry just to
address the numerous challenges confronting Zongos and inner cities apart from
the Akufo-AAdo-led administration.
He said President Akufo-Addo kept faith with
Ghanaians after delivering 78 per cent of promises he made to the electorate in
three years, adding that, the NPP managed the economy better than its
predecessor.
GNA