Flagbearer of the NDC John Dramani Mahama has told Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia to quit making fun of the NDC’s promise to create makeshift mortuaries in zongos when they’re voted into power.
According to Mahama, Bawumia being a Muslim should know better instead of trying to make a mockery out of it whenever he has the chance.
“Our policy is not one Zongo, one mortuary. We are not thinking of mortuary. We are thinking of schools; we want to develop our Zongos with schools and not mortuary”, Mahama noted at the National Council of Fulani Chiefs on September 27, 2020.
“Recently, some people were making a mockery that we said One Zongo One Mortuary. What they don’t know is that the Imams in Zongos tabled it before us that they were not happy about how bodies of Muslims are handled before burial because it violates the dictates of Islamic religion. Sometimes, you see a Muslim woman in a morgue lying naked in between other corpses. They said they need morgues in Zongos to enable them prepare their bodies in a dignified manner for burial. We saw it as laudable therefore fixed it in our manifesto,” Mahama was quoted by 3 News.
He added, “so I’m surprised that our Brother [Bawumia] who is a Muslim and knows the importance of this facility to Muslims is rather making a mockery of it saying ‘one Zongo one Mortuary’. This is not fun. Every religion has its faith and how it is practised. So if the Muslims feel that they need it, it is only important that we support them. It is not a matter that people should make fun of”.
Source: GhanaFeed.com
