Dr Asah-Asante AdvertisementA Political Science Lecturer at the University of Ghana, Dr Kwame Asah-Asante has acclaimed that Ghana has too abounding holidays

In his view, the cardinal of holidays in Ghana is adverse bread-and-butter development

He has alleged for a analysis of the holidays and atom those that are not needed

"There are too abounding holidays in Ghana, let us analysis them and do abroad with those we don't need," he said on the Big Issue on TV3 Tuesday, August 6 while accidental to a altercation on the Founders Day celebration

He added agreed with Admiral Akufo-Addo that Ghana was not founded by one man

He states that others comedy a role in ensuring the ability of Ghana accordingly Dr Kwame Nkrumah cannot be said to be the Founder of Ghana

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in his 2024 Founders' Day abode on Saturday, August 3, objected to the affirmation that Ghana was founded by Dr Kwame Nkrumah

In 2019, Parliament anesthetized a law establishing August 4 as Founders' Day to honour the aggregate efforts of those who contributed to Ghana's ability struggle, while anecdotic September 21 as Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Day

"I allege to you this evening, abnegation completely, the angle that Ghana was founded by one man. While Kwame Nkrumah's contributions to our ability are undeniable, it is important to accede for ourselves that account that the attempt for our nation's abandon was a aggregate accomplishment spanning several generations," the admiral said in his broadcast

  "The accumulation of the Aborigines Rights Protection, the British West African Nation 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 abstracted administration was assuredly a above amateur in the final lap of our adventure to ability and that is why admitting the several adverse things that happened afterwards ability beneath his watch, Parliament 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 argued that groups including Joseph Casely Hayford and Thomas Hutton-Mills' British West African Nation Congress and several others contributed to Ghana's abandon and consecutive independence