The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Zongo Development Fund (ZoDF), Dr. Obrempong Arafat Sulemana Abdulai has assured the rank and file of the Zongo communities that the establishment of the fund was for the good of the people of the Zongos across the country devoid of politics.
According to him, the fund has come to stay because it was established by an act of Parliament, Act 964 2017.
He said the operations of the fund under the office of the president are grounded in the laws of the country.
It is against this backdrop that he said “the fund has no political colouration even though it was set up as a result of a promise president Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo made to the good of the Zongos in the 2016 elections.”
He revealed that it is the reason the governing board of the fund has people representing the Christian community, Zongo chiefs and leaders from the various Muslim sects.
Mr. Sulemana, speaking in an interview with Mr. Emmanuel Quarshie host of the Ghana Yensom morning show on Accra 100.5 FM on August 24, 2002 noted that “the fund does not discriminate in the provision of projects to the Zongo communities even though the Zongo communities are politically tilted towards the main opposition National Democratic Congress”.
He noted that so far, two NDC Members of Parliament namely Zenator Agyeman Rawlings and Mr. Collins Dauda have called on the fund for assistance.
He said these MPs walked to his office to have discussions on the way forward for their constituencies. This, he explained, was an indication that the fund does not operate with a political lens.
He said apart from these two NDC MPs openly seeking assistance from the fund, the office has embarked on projects in the constituencies of many NDC MPs.
He called on the NDC to cooperate with the fund to make Zongos a place of desire.
Mentioning some of the successes, he said the fund has provided skills training in the areas of beads and liquid soap making to some 1,200 teeming unemployed youth.
He added that 400 out of the number will be given seed capital. He noted that the fund has also built some 38 Information Technology Communications laboratories across the country and explained that the fund is a baby fund that needs the support of everybody.
