News:
September 20, 2017
Advisors of President Nana Akufo-Addo should have insulated him from the unnecessary controversy of changing Founder’s Day from September 21st to August 4 as Founders’ Day, Member of Parliament for Odododiodoo Nii Lante said in an interview.
He indicated that the Minority will take the Speaker Professor Mike Aaron Oquaye on for wanting to distort the history of Ghana with his lectures he delivered touching on Founder’s Day that generated controversy.
“We have too many holidays as a country, we have 10 holidays already, are we going to have one holiday a month, even the United States and the United Kingdom how many holidays do they have, when we are talking about productivity?”. And further added that we do not need holidays to celebrate people, “we already have monument celebrating most of our leaders.
The Odododiodoo legislator noted that the September 21st is symbolic date, which captures all the people who contributed towards the independent struggle of Ghana. You have one person Dr. Kwame Nkrumah who represents all the others “we are not only celebrating Nkrumah”.
“If we are not careful prominence will be given to August 4th which will over shadow the symbolic September 21st”.
By: Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/ghanamps.com