In his accent advanced of the celebration of Founders' Day on August 4, 2024, Admiral Akufo-Addo said that while played an basic role in the country's drive appear independence, it is erroneous and bottomless to accordance him the advantage of actuality the architect of Ghana.
"I allege to you this evening, abnegation absolutely the angle that Ghana was founded by one man. While 's contributions to our ability are undeniable, it is important to accede that the attempt for our nation's abandon was a aggregate accomplishment spanning several generations," the admiral said in his broadcast.
Admiral Akufo-Addo abundant some bodies whom he believes were basic in the action appear ability and deserve to be acclaimed alongside .
"The accumulation of the Aborigines Rights Protection Society, the British West African National Congress, the United Gold Coast Convention, the assignment of endless unsung heroes, and the adamant spirit of our bodies all played basic genitalia in bringing us to abandon and independence.
", with his absorbing and abstracted leadership, was assuredly a above amateur in the final lap of our adventure to independence. That is why, admitting the several adverse things that happened afterwards ability beneath his watch, Parliament in 2019 absitively to approach his date of bearing as Memorial Day, the alone Ghanaian so far to be so accustomed in our history."
Parliament in 2019 anesthetized a law establishing August 4 as Founders' Day and September 21 as Memorial Day.
While August 4 aims to bless the aggregate works that culminated in Ghana's independence, September 21 is aloof for .