The Vice President of Ghana, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has former Vice President of Ghana, Alhaji Aliu Mahama is the brain behind the most touted Zongo Development Fund by the New Patriotic Party.
The Vice President made this known while speaking at an event to mark the 5th anniversary of his passing.
He said the former Vice President made the proposal as a way of defusing the propaganda being peddled at the time, that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) was against people from the Northern and Zongo community.
He said “we see him as a pioneer as far as our politics is concerned. As Vice President to President Kufuor, he brought something unique to the table. He straddled the zongo and northern communities. The story of the Zongo Development fund was started with Alhaji Aliu Mahama.”
“We were talking and he said, we have to do things to let the Zongos appreciate that the NPP is not anti-Zongo as the propaganda was at the time. We said what can we do, and we started talking about specific interventions because successive governments had not paid attention to the zongos. So that is why when we brought that suggestion to Nana Akufo-Addo he immediately said that it is a good idea, let us put it in the manifesto, and today by the grace of God, we are establishing the Zongo Development Fund,” Bawumia said.
The Zongo development bill was passed this week and an amount of fifty million dollars has been earmarked for the development of zongo communities in the countries.
source:a1radioonline.com
