The family of the former Chief Imam of Wa Central Mosque has rejected donations given by vice President, Dr. Mahmoud Bawumia. The donation was revealed to be an amount of ¢20,000.00 in a press statement released and signed by the head of the Limanyiri family Alhaji Issaka Mahama Bawmara, meant for the late Chief Imam’s funeral rites.
The head of the Limanyiri family thanked the vice president for the kind gesture showed towards the family, however, he rejected the donation and said that the means through which the donation was sent is unethical. Besides, he indicated that the donation arrived at time they were done with the final funeral rites and that there was no need in taking it.
Also, Alhaji Issaka Mahama Bawmara registered the family’s displeasure over the vice President and the Presidency’s inability to show up to mourn with them and assist the late chief Imam when he was still alive and needed their support the most.
He stated in a presser, “We the elders of the family wish to state that, the donation though well intentioned is belated as the funeral rites have already been performed. Besides, the vice President never showed up in person to mourn with the family when he paid a visit to the region on the 7th of September,2020. The money was only sent through the constituency chairman of the NPP for Wa Central which is unethical.”
Also, the family’s head avered that the late Chief Imam was accused and criticized when he offered prayer for the NPP in the 2016 campaign. Yet was paid with a bad coin through the Regional Minister by the very party that caused his public Critique. The statement added that ” When the embattled Imam was blockaded from performing his religious duties at the Central Mosque by the Regional Minister and REGSEC and he called on the Presidency to bring the Minister, Hafiz Bin Salih to order, the Presidency never responded”.
The late chief Dr. Suleman Mahama Haroon Bakuri died on 20 July, 2020 in Wa, the capital of the Upper West Region of Ghana.
