The admiral adumbrated that bodies who baste his accommodation to set August 4 as the Founders' Day are not acquainted of the country's complete attempt for independence.
He said that such bodies anticipate that the absolute country was accomplishing annihilation afore Ghana's aboriginal president, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, came in to advance the country's attempt for independence, graphic.com.gh has said.
"I am acquainted that some Ghanaians who questioned my charge to 4th August as Founders' Day acquire that we were all comatose in Ghana until the accession of Kwame Nkrumah and the CPP," he said.
Akufo-Addo added that he had already declared his angle on that several times, including in his accent aftermost Saturday evening, and that he did not intend to go over that amount again.
He adumbrated that the anniversary of Dr Nkrumah on his altogether is abundant honour, and it is hoped that August 4 is maintained as the founders' day.
"Suffice it to say that I acquire that the accordance that Assembly accustomed at in 2019, honouring Kwame Nkrumah with a Memorial Day and attention the actual accent and acceptation of August 4th in our history, is a acceptable consensus, and it deserves to last," Admiral Akufo-Addo added.
President Akufo-Addo came beneath acute analysis back he appear his boldness not to acquire the angle captivated by some Ghanaians that Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah is the sole architect of the country.
In his accent advanced of the celebration of Founders' Day on August 4, 2024, Admiral Akufo-Addo 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 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 abundant some bodies who he believes were basic in the action appear ability and 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.
Parliament anesthetized a law in 2019 establishing August 4 as Founders' Day and September 21 as Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Day.
While August 4 aims to bless the aggregate works that culminated in Ghana's independence, September 21 is aloof for Kwame Nkrumah.
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