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The national vice president of Council of Zongo chiefs, who doubles as the president of eastern regional Council of Zongo chiefs and also the Zongo chief of Kyebi, Alhaji Abubakar Umar has waded into the numerous controversies surrounding ending political vigilantism in Ghana and has revealed that elders of Zongo community get irritated and sometimes have to hide their identities because a majority of the Ghanaian populace have ascribed Zongo people as recalcitrants.
He thus advised Zongo people particularly the youth not to take up petty jobs and engaging in organizations like vigilante groups that are aimed at causing nothing but mayhem in the country.
He made these pronouncements at a press conference he organised at Kyebi Zongo Chief’s palace on Wednesday April 3 2019.
Alhaji Abubakar Umar further revealed that the tag on Zongo people sometimes makes some of them hide their identities when they are out and therefore advised the youth in particular to desist from anything that will drag the name of Zongo into the gutter.
“We get worried when we hear that and that is why we are meeting today. Sometimes we have to hide our identity when we go out because of the tag. What will they offer you apart from giving you ₵10 to ₵200? It’s so said and bad. We want to tell our Zongo youth that Allah didn’t create anyone to be a bodyguard, vigilante, and assault people”, Alhaji said.
Alhaji threw his support on the need to end vigilantism and called on all and sundry to get involved to bring to halt what is worrying them for long.
That notwithstanding, he made a passionate appeal to the government through the minister of inner cities and Zongo development to speed up the developmental projects in the Zongo communities and urged the government to improve education among the Zongo communities.
He also asked that government speeds up their work on the sports stadium in Kyebi since it has been halted for a while.
By: Radio1News|Ghana
