The Vice President, John Dramani Mahama has extolled the peaceful coexistence between Muslim and Christians in the country. He said unlike other countries in the world where the two religions finds it difficult to cohabit Ghana was blessed to have Christians and Muslims living like Siamese twins, adding that such coexistence has created the enabling environment for development to thrive in the country and urged them to continue in that direction.
Mr. Mahama said this when the Chief Imam led a delegation to call on him at the castle, Osu yesterday.
Mr. Mahama urged the Imams and Muslim chiefs who are mostly from the North to assist in resolving the barrage of conflicts besieging Northing Ghana. He said the three Northern regions are the most poorest and the time has come for them to rather unite to fight the common poverty confronting the people and stop the fight among themselves.
He sighted the Savanna Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) government has instituted saying government wants to do everything to lift the people out of poverty and create a new growth pole in the North to attract people from the South to also migrate to the area to work and urged the North to support the government to support them.
The Vice President also called on the Imams and Chiefs to pray for Cote d’Iviore so peace could return to that troubled land of cocoa.
He assured the Muslim communities in Ghana of a better Hajj organization this year.
The Public Relations Officer of the National Council of Zongo Muslim Chiefs, Chief Issa speaking on behalf of the Chief Imam expressed their gratitude for the support government gave them in last year’s Hajj and said the exercise brought enough blessing and benefits.
Chief Issa said as a result of government’s support to ten Muslim chiefs and regional Imams to perform last year’s Hajj they were in collaboration with other stakeholders able to resolve the chronic and long standing cold war that existed between Sultan Alhaji Umar Farouk of the Kumasi Sarkin Zongo and Chief Alhaji Ahmed Ibrahim, the President of the Kumasi Council of Zongo Chiefs.
He said the Imams and Muslim Chiefs who participated in last year’s Hajj were able to secure scholarships for 32 Ghanaian students to study in Saudi Arabia whiles charitable institutions in Jedda requested them to secure lands so they could be assisted to build a university and also go into farming.
The delegation was in the Castle to thank the government for the successful organization of last year Hajj, brief government on the reconciliation of two Muslim chiefs in Kumasi and also report to government some investment opportunities last year pilgrims were able to secure from Saudi Arabia.
Story: George Azirigo
11/1/11
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
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