Kufuor Didn’t Care For The Zongos

- Akufo Addo

The opposition New Patriotic Party’s (NPP’s) 2012 flagbearer, Mr. Williams Addo-Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has argued that no government has, since 1992, cared enough for the Zongo community in Ghana.

He hits that he would be the first leader, to set up what he calls ‘Zongo Development Fund’, in the unlikely event that he is elected President of the Republic of Ghana.

The NPP flagbearer made this statement on his just-ended tour of the Greater Accra Region.

By this statement, Nana Akufo-Addo implies that, Presidents Jerry John Rawlings, John Agyekum Kufuor, as well as the late John Evans Atta Fiifi Mills, did nothing to improve the lives of those in the Zongo communities.

This, indeed, confirms The Informer’s position that Nana Akufo-Addo has never trusted ex-President Kufuor.

However, political analysts believe, that the NPP flagbearer may only be hitting at the former presidents, particularly, John Agyekum Kufuor, because he had information that even NPP supporters in the Zongo communities will be voting for President John Dramani Mahama and the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), come December 7.

This is obvious; because The Informer is aware that ex-President Rawlings and Atta-Mills did a lot for the Zongos, contrary to what Akufo-Addo, with desperate ambition, wants Ghanaians to believe.

Below is an ankle-length (unedited) report of Akufo-Addo’s Zongo development fund empty promise, as extracted from Myjoyonline.

Akufo-Addo to transform Zongos with ‘Zongo” fund

The opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) has said it will introduce a “Zongo” development fund to address the development gap in impoverished communities should they be voted into power.

According to the NPP flagbearer, Nana Akufo-Addo the special fund will be an annual budgetary allocation that will aim at deprived communities, mostly referred to as Zongos.

The NPP presidential candidate made the promise after concluding his “Restore Hope” tour in the Eastern region.

An aide to Nana Akufo-Addo, Mustapha Hamid told Joy FM in an interview, that the Inner-City Development Fund will seek to boost infrastructural development of such communities and also raise the standard of living of residents in those areas.

Mustapha Hamid pointed out that an NPP government will seek to replicate the work it did on Koforidua Zongo which he says is a model of what an inner-city should be, adding that such development will be extended to similar communities spread across the country.

Mustapha Hamid further said that the fund has become very necessary because over the years a general developmental fund has not solved the infrastructural deficit that exists in those communities.

Nana Akufo-Addo and his running mate, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia are expected to take their “Restore Hope” tour to the Ashanti region after wrapping up the tour of the Eastern region