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Ghana’s President John Evans Atta Mills Monday led his countrymen in the celebration of the 100th birthday of the country’s first president, Dr Kwame
The declaration of September 21 as statutory public holiday in honour of Ghana’s first President, Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah, has renewed an age-old debate regarding the appropriateness of celebrating Nkrumah as the sole founder of the nation.
This coming Monday, it will be a hundred years since Nkrumah was born. So many years after his birth, the Osagyefo excites more passion and disagreement, by far, than any of his contemporaries.
OSAGYEFO Dr Kwame Nkrumah, between 1945 and 1966, embarked on an exciting political journey along the path determined by human options and by force of circumstances.
Kwame Nkrumah’s human story must serve to inspire another generation in many ways, and above all, to believe in themselves. Even more importantly, it must inspire the older generation to believe in and trust the youth because Nkrumah’s story is one of youthful optimism in the face of traditional resistance to new ideas.
Policing under Dr Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s First President was challenging because until then the police high command and middle level commanders were all whitemen and their duty was to protect colonial interest.
Three companies which presented various claims to the commission yesterday for works done in respect of the golden jubilee celebration of the country did not have a contract with the secretariat.
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