Building Of Mortuaries A Misplaced Priority — National Nasara Wing

Mr. Aziz Futa, the NPP National Nasara Coordinator

The National Nasara Wing of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), has described a promise made by former President John Dramani Mahama to build more mortuaries in the Zongo communities as not only a misplaced priority but absurd and an insult to Ghanaian Muslims.

These statements were contained in a press release issued in Accra and signed by the NPP's National Nasara Coordinator, Mr . Abdul Aziz Haruna Futa in response to an online publication in which the NDC flagbearer for the 2020 General Elections was alleged to have made those promises during an interview with XYZ and Woezor TV channels respectively .

Mr . Aziz Futa said that the NDC has never made any manifesto promise to the Zongo people except the repeated lies that the NPP will deport them when they win political power.

"Nana Akufo -Addo 's presidency rather gave more recognition and attention to the numerous challenges bedeviling the Zongos communities" Mr. Aziz Futa pointed out.

The press release explained that in accordance to the Islamic tradition,immediately someone dies steps are hurriedly taken to prepare the person for burial. Muslims do not preserve dead bodies to be buried later and therefore the essence of building mortuaries for the Zongos is a misplaced priority lies aimed at deceiving the people .

" This clearly shows that the much touted people's manifesto of the NDC is nothing but a ruse meant to deceive Zongo people ".

The NPP clearly understands the needs and recurring problems that has to do with the release of Muslim dead bodies to their families for burials by the respective health facilities, has therefore in collaboration with the Ghana Health Service, resolved to streamline the process and facilitate easy access to Muslim dead bodies in all health facilities nationwide as well as designate a particular place in all mortuaries for the bathing and preparation of all Muslim dead bodies .

The leading opposition party's manifesto for the 2020 polls ,according to the NPP Nasara Boss only contains archaic ideas that doesn't address immediate and pressing concerns of the Muslim communities.

The Nasara Coordinator also bemoans the densely populated structure of Zongo communities which has made it difficult to undertake developmental projects .

The NDC, Mr. Aziz Futa noted, chose to ignore the current challenges affecting the people such as lack of adequate hospital facilities, schools, proper road networks, water, electricity amongst others and decided to focus on building of mortuaries.

He therefore opined that the NDC as a party has proven to be empty when it comes to preferring alternative innovative solutions to tackling challenges facing Muslims in Ghana.

He among other things mentioned that the NPP has sent forty Muslims to Cuba to study medicine,allocates Ghc 10 Million as seed money to support businesses in the Zongos,building of schools and the promise to establish sixteen model senior high schools in selected Zongo communities , as some achievements and proposed projects of the NPP government to the Zongo people.

He cautioned the NDC to desist from using the Muslim communities as vote baskets but rather see the Zongos as partners in development for the country as done by the NPP.

The NPP National Nasara Coordinator indicated that the focus of their government is to develop the human resources in the Zongo youth through pro-poor policies such as the Free SHS, NABCO, planting for food and jobs and the stabilizing of the nation's economy.

" This government has performed better for Ghanaians and the Zongo people which justifies the four more to do more for the Zongo people and Ghanaians in general", Mr. Aziz Futa emphasized.