President-elect Nana Akufo-Addo has told the National Association of Zongo Chiefs that his promise to establish a Zongo Development Fund to assist the zongo communities in Ghana will feature in his 2017 budget.

The fund, according to the president-elect, is to "help regenerate and review our zongos."

The New Patriotic Party in its manifesto said the fund will be used to invest  in education and training and development within the zongos targeting health, sanitation, local businesses and culture and art.

Addressing Zongo Chiefs Saturday at his Nima residence, Nana Akufo-Addo said: “In the first budget of the Akufo-Addo Presidency, there will be a line item in our budget that has never been there in any budget since independence in 1957 since today – the Zongo development fund.”

The president also rebuffed claims that he dislike persons from the Zongo communiteis.

“I have no agenda against anybody, Zongo or anybody else in Ghana. The only agenda I have is how we can prosperity to all the people living in this country."