The Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party, Mr. Bernard Antwi-Boasiako, has emphatically stated that the people of Asawase deserve an airport and not a mortuary as proposed by the flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress.
In an interview on the Wontumi Morning Show, the NPP Chairman also known as Chairman Wontumi explained that the Muslim community should never be taken for granted like former President Mahama is trying to do.
He maintained that areas such as Asawase where there are a lot of Muslims deserve huge projects such as airports and not mortuaries. “They need airport not mortuary”, Chairman Wontumi sounded.
Former President John Dramani Mahama, has been widely condemned for revealing that if voted for, he would build more mortuaries for the Muslim communities.
He pledged in an interview on minor tv outlet that the next (NDC) administration will build more mortuaries in the Zongo communities.
According to him, this forms part of the numerous intervention programmes which the NDC plans to put in place to develop Zongos and deprived communities when he takes over the governance of this nation in 2021.
In his view, the mortuaries will help preserve the dead in Zongo areas.
But many have considered his pledged for the Zongo communities as condemnable considering the how Muslims treat dead bodies.