Akufo-Addo’s father is responsible for poverty in Zongo

General news for Thursday, September 17, 2020

Source: My GH news

2020-09-17

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Asawasi constituency Member of Parliament (MP) Mohammed Mubarak Muntaka has blamed “poverty” in Ghana’s Zongo settlements at the gates of the late Mr. Edward Akufo Addo and his Dankwa-Busia political tradition for his role some Zongo residents of the country were extradited in 1969.

Speaking at the recently completed City Council meeting of the Democratic National Congress (NDC) on the “People’s Manifesto” in Kumasi, Hon. Muntaka recalled a period in the country’s history when, according to him, people considered non-natives found themselves forced to leave the Zongo communities for their different places of origin, in an exercise dubbed at that time “K) Wo Kurom.”

“Everyone knows that the people who live in Zongos are not lazy; but it is for a particular reason that poverty is common in Zongo. Many times, people do not want to hear the truth, so when you say it, they say that you are generating division, forgetting that their own actions are what cause division. The “K) Wo Kurom” that happened in 1969, under the Busia-Dankwa regime, at the time when Nana Akufo Addo’s father was president, was the basis of poverty in Zongo, but many people don’t know it ” , said. he claimed.

The Majority Chief Whip was ostensibly referring to the 1969 “Ghana Foreigners Enforcement Order” (GACO) under Prime Minister KA Busia, where up to 3 million Nigerians and other African and non-African immigrants constituted 20% of the Ghanaian population at that time were deported from Ghana.

He said the law deprived the people of the Zongo communities that controlled business and commerce in Adum and the Kumasi Central Market from losing their investments and livelihoods, causing poverty to take root in those settlements.

He also highlighted some of the initiatives of successive NDC governments that have improved the lot of the people of Zongo, including the formalization of the “Makaranta” learning centers to become full educational centers and the institutionalization of the Islamic festivities of Eid. ‘ ul Fitr and Eid’ul Adha as public. Holidays.