Eid-ul Adha: KMA Boss appeals to Muslims to honour their tax obligations
The Metropolitan Chief Executive (MCE) of Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA), Hon. Osei Assibey Antwi, has called on Muslims in Ghana to live up to their civic responsibilities by fulfilling their tax obligations to ensure that funds are available for the development of Ghana.
He also charged them to the support the Assembly’s vision of making Kumasi free from filth by making their environments clean by not littering and indiscriminately dumping of both solid and liquid wastes.
The Kumasi mayor said this in his speech on Tuesday, August 21, 2018, when he joined the Ahmadiyya Muslims in Kumasi to celebrate this year Eid-ul Adha at the T.I. Ahmadiyya Senior High School.
Eid ul Adha is an Islamic festival to commemorate the willingness of Ibrahim (Abraham) to follow Allah’s command to sacrifice his son.
On behalf of president Nana Akufo Addo, he presented 10 bags of rice, 5 cartons of cooking oil and a cow to the Ahmadiyya Muslims community.
“Most roads in the country need to be rehabilitated, especially in Kumasi here, President Nana Addo has cut sod for the reconstruction of roads in Kumasi and Ashanti region as a whole, and so far four contractors have started works. All these could be achieved when we the citizens pay our taxes to generate revenues for that venture. Be a faithful tax payer is also one of the conditions of a faithful servant of a Christian or Muslim faith,” Mayor noted.
“Cleanliness, they say, is next to Godliness, as we all have dressed nicely in the celebration of this important festival, it must be reflected in our homes, work places and our immediate environs. We should all keep the city clean, we shouldn’t liter around, stop dumping of wastes indiscriminately and make good use of dustbins provided by the Assembly. Keeping the environs tidy is a religious obligation, through which God visits and blesses his people,” Hon. Osei Assibey urged.
The Director of Tabligh (Preacher) in the Ashanti region, Maulvi Yusy Bin Salih, who represented the Ashanti Regional Missionary of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission, Maulvi Abdul Hammed Tahir, during the sermon urged Muslims to humble themselves in their daily activities to receive the blessings of God (Allah).
“As a period of sacrifices, we should sacrifice ourselves to the dedication of works to God and mankind in fulfillment of his (Allah) wishes. This can be achieved when humble ourselves as the animal which humbled itself to be used by Ibrahim (Abraham), so that our sacrifices would be accepted by Allah,” he explained.
Source: Ghana/otecfmghana.com/Francis Appiah
