Speaking at a political attack accident in the arctic allotment of Ghana, Mahama, a aloft admiral himself, said that afterwards coast the country into an bread-and-butter mess, the cardinal New Patriotic Party (NPP) additionally wants to change the history.
"Apart from antibacterial our economy, afar from coast Ghana into crisis, one of the things this government wants to do is to carbon our history. And we shall not acquiesce them to carbon our history, because the admiral said he does not acquire that one actuality can be the architect of a nation.
"Yes, founding a nation takes abounding people, but there's consistently that analytical one actuality whose cede and efforts are what assuredly advance to the accomplishment of the cold that everybody is alive for. And so, if you ask South Africans who is the architect of modern-day South Africa, they'll acquaint you, Mandela. But it was not Mandela alone, there was Oliver Tambo, there was Govan Mbeki and so abounding of them who fought the armed attempt to accomplish ability for South Africa from apartheid. But it was Mandela's sacrifice, actuality in bastille for over 20 years and actuality the attribute of the attempt that makes them say, Mandela is the architect of modern-day South Africa."
He added, "It is the aforementioned affair with Ghana. If you ask Ghanaians who is the architect of Ghana, who acquired ability for Ghana, the majority of Ghanaians will acquaint you Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. Because it was he who gave that analytical atom to the ability struggle. That accident eventually got us independence."
The aloft admiral additionally said the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC), founded by the backward Dr. J.B. Danquah, which the proponents of the NPP are aggravating to acclaim for Ghana's independence, did their allotment but Nkrumah's addition was aloft all else.
He added that the UGCC, alike at a point, approved to demolition Nkrumah's ability attempt by petitioning the then-British monarch, the backward Queen Elizabeth, not to admission Ghana independence.
"The UGCC at the time said ability gradually, in the beeline accessible time. Nkrumah said ability now, and he fought for it. And that is why Ghanaians admit him as the founder. Nobody can appear and carbon our history. Indeed, for those of you who don't apperceive it, back the queen assuredly agreed to accordance Ghana independence, the UGCC that Nana Akufo-Addo is angry to be accustomed as founders of Ghana, wrote a petition.
"They beatific bodies to England to acquaint the queen, don't admission independence, we are not accessible yet. Alike if we are adage abounding bodies fought for independence, you cannot say UGCC was allotment of it because they were an obstacle to independence," he added.
What Akufo-Addo said:
In his accent advanced of the celebration of Founders' Day on August 4, 2024, Admiral said that while Kwame Nkrumah played an basic role in the country's drive appear independence, it is erroneous and bottomless to accordance him the advantage of actuality the alone architect of Ghana.
"I allege to you this evening, abnegation absolutely the angle that Ghana was founded by one man. While Kwame Nkrumah'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.
President Akufo-Addo additionally listed some bodies whom he believes were basic in the action appear ability and who deserve to be acclaimed alongside Kwame Nkrumah.
"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.
"Kwame Nkrumah, 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, Assembly in 2019 absitively to memorialise his date of bearing as Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Day, the alone Ghanaian so far to be so honoured in our history," he added.
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