{"id":281014,"date":"2017-01-01T06:11:21","date_gmt":"2017-01-01T06:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=281014"},"modified":"2017-01-01T06:11:21","modified_gmt":"2017-01-01T06:11:21","slug":"zongo-development-fund-to-be-line-item-in-2017-budget-nana-addo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/01\/zongo-development-fund-to-be-line-item-in-2017-budget-nana-addo\/","title":{"rendered":"Zongo development fund to be line item in 2017 budget – Nana Addo"},"content":{"rendered":"
The president-elect Nana Akufo Addo has reiterated his commitment to fulfilling his promise of establishing a Zongo development fund to assist the Muslim communities in the country.<\/p>\n
This Zongo development fund will be captured in the incoming Nana Akufo-Addo administration’s first budget statement in 2017.<\/p>\n
As a campaign promise, the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has promised to establish a Zongo development fund to regenerate Zongo communities across the country.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n Addressing Zongo Chiefs at his residence, Nana Akufo-Addo also debunked\u00a0rumours of purported ill intent against the Zongos and the Muslim community, adding that we will lead the nation with a clean heart and encouraged Muslims to supplicate for him to lead the nation to success.<\/p>\n \u201cIn the first budget of the Akufo-Addo Presidency, there will be a line item in our budget that has never been there in any budget since independence in 1957 since today \u2013 the Zongo development fund.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI have no agenda against anybody, Zongo or anybody else in Ghana. The only agenda I have is how we can prosperity to all the people living in this country,\u201d Nana Akufo Addo said.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Skepticism\u00a0from\u00a0Muslim community<\/strong><\/p>\n A Muslim community leader, Sheikh Aremeyaw Shaibu, has however expressed doubt<\/a><\/strong><\/span> that Zongo communities around the country will see any significant transformation under the incoming New Patriotic Party (NPP) government.<\/p>\n Following\u00a0the NPP’s election victory, Sheikh Aremeyaw Shaibu, who also doubles as the Spokesperson for the National Chief Imam, said things in the Zongo community might remain the same.<\/p>\n