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Politics of Sunday September 27, 2020
Source: FM class
27-09-2020
Ghana Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia
Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has said that unlike the largest opposition party, the National Democratic Congress, which has promised to build morgues in Zongo communities in accordance with Islamic custom, the Akufo-Addo government, in case of remain in office after December Elections on February 7, 2020 will provide model schools for those Muslim-dominated communities.
Speaking at the National Council of Fulani Chiefs conference, Dr. Bawumia said: “We are going to build a model of upper secondary school in the Zongo community in each region, so we will start with 16 models of SHS for our children to have a opportunity to attend those schools ”.
“That will be the beginning of next year.”
“Our policy is not a Zongo, a mortuary.”
“We are not thinking of mortuaries.”
“We are thinking about schools; we want to develop our Zongos with schools and not funeral homes, ”said the Vice President.
Recently, the Chief Imam of the Eastern Region also indicated that morgues are not a necessity for Zongo communities.
Speaking to CTV News, Sheikh Amdani said that establishing morgues in Zongo communities is unnecessary because it does not contribute to development.
“We need schools, hospitals, ICT facilities and libraries to bring development and not mortuaries,” he said.
Page 82 of the NDC People’s Manifesto clearly explains that the next NDC government “will facilitate the establishment of morgues in accordance with Islamic customs and practices and will work with the Ministry of Health to establish focal teams responsible for the procedures that comply with Islamic Customs and Practices in all public funeral homes. “
Sheikh Amdani further said that the construction of morgues to store Muslim corpses before burial is not as important as “providing a special place to bathe the corpses before letting them rest.”
He reiterated that developing the Zongos through education is better than establishing mortuaries.
Meanwhile, a non-partisan and apolitical Muslim organization known as the Federation of Muslim Councils (FMC), has said that it supports any movement to establish morgues to care for Muslim corpses in accordance with Islamic traditions that should be adopted by all. the Muslims. .
A statement signed by the group’s general secretary, Alhajj Muhammad Amir Kpakpo Addo on Friday, September 25, 2020, indicated that the campaign promise made by the NDC “smells like good thoughts to Muslims” and should be welcomed, adding: ” It is therefore untrue for any Muslim to stand in the way of Islam by contesting the promise to give one last decent and dignified respect to dead Muslims, regardless of who is making the promise. “
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