The running mate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh, has urged the Zongos to vote massively against the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC).
He says the NDC intends to break down some mosques in the Zongo community and build mortuaries on them.
Napo as he is affectionately called was speaking at Nkoranza when he made this known to the people.
“NDC is known for killing. Two Men of God went missing under their watch, they also killed traditionalists.
If you are in the Zongos, vote massively for the NPP because that is the party with Zongos and inner cities at heart. The NDC is coming to break down your mosques and build morgues on them.
The NPP will build hospitals for you, your children will go to school for free. So the choice is yours to either choose light or darkness.
In 2020, former President John Dramani Mahama said “Yes, it is. It is on page 82 I think. It has a lot of programmes here…. This one is interesting, it [manifesto] says ‘facilitate the establishment of morgues [or mortuaries]… You know there has been a long-standing complaint about how their [Muslim] bodies are handled and also by Islamic practice, within a certain number of hours, I think 48 hours they must bury the person but often with our traditional hospitals it takes quite some time for them to get the body ready and so on and so forth and so a lot of the Muslim communities have not been happy.
So we say ‘facilitate the establishment of mortuaries in accordance with Islamic customs and practices and collaborate with the Ministry of Health to set up focal teams responsible for procedures that are compliant with Islamic Customs and practices at all public mortuaries’, so this is a very important thing that they have been talking about.”