Speaking in an account on Okay FM on August 6, 2024, the historian said that best of the bodies who were allotment of 'The Big Six' had annihilation to do with Ghana's ability attempt and were accidentally arrested during a dive of leaders of political parties then.
He additionally refuted the affirmation that all the associates of "The Big Six," Kwame Nkrumah, Ako Adjei, Edward Akufo-Addo, JB Danquah, Emmanuel Obetsebi-Lamptey, and William Ofori-Atta, were arch associates of the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC), because best of them were associates of the Convention People's Party (CPP).
Anokye Frimpong added that the byword "The Big Six" is from the bi-weekly banderole on the dive by the again British government, and it had annihilation to do with Ghana's ability struggle.
"This is a lie bodies accept been spreading. Can you booty out the baton of the UGCC, Paa Grant, and his assistant, RS Blay, and still accept a 'Big Six'? What happened was that back the British realised that some of the leaders had incited the people, they capital to arrest them.
"Nkrumah was arrested at Cape Coast. William Ofori-Atta was not allotment of the organisation (UGCC); he was a abecedary at Abuakwa State College. He (Ofori-Atta) went to his uncle JB Danquah's abode to analysis whether he had been arrested, and he was arrested as anon as he got there. His account is imprinted on Ghana's bill as actuality allotment of the Big Six," he said in Twi.
He added, "Awoonor Williams was one of the leaders (of the UGCC), but he fled; Nanka Brews was one of them; he additionally fled; RS Blay additionally bolted; and Paa Grant had travelled. On the day afterwards the arrest, the bi-weekly explanation was 'Big Six' leaders of UGCC arrested. This does not beggarly that the nation distinctively called these bodies as the country's founders. So, there is no 'Big Six'."
The historian added that it is bodies who are banishment their way into the history books of Ghana who are capitalising on the affair of the Big Six alike admitting they were not allotment of the country's ability struggle.
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