The renaming of the Golden Jubilee House to Flag Staff House after the National Democratic Congress (NDC) won power in 2009 by late President Atta Mills was reflective of his pettiness, the Member of Parliament for Atiwa East, Abena Osei Asare has said.
Originally called the Flagstaff House when the Ghana’s first president Kwame Nkrumah occupied it in the 1960s, the lavish presidential villa was rebuilt by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government of former John Agyekum Kufuor during the country’s celebration of its 50th independence anniversary, changing the name to Golden Jubilee House.
However, immediately, the NDC assumed the reigns of governance in 2009, the name Golden Jubilee House was reverted to Flagstaff House.
Speaking on the floor of parliament Wednesday March 1, 2017, Mrs. Asare derided the action of the late president, contending that it was unpatriotic and divisive.
With the return of the NPP to the reigns of governance following its outstanding electoral victory in last year’s general elections, many expected the name Golden Jubilee House to be restored in a blink of an eye.
However, President Akufo-Addo believes that instead of using executive order to restore the name Golden Jubilee House, the president has called for a national discourse in re-naming of the presidency.
“I believe we have to settle these matters once and for all and in due course, I propose we have a national conversation and dialogue to this effect which, hopefully will end in legislation that will reflect national consensus,” he said February 21 during his maiden State of the Nation Address.
This, according to Mrs. Asare is an indication of the president’s maturity and lack of vindictiveness saying: “this shows that he is nationalistic, patriotic and a father for all.”
Source: starrfmonline.com
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TALKING ABOUT ONE BEING PETTY JUST BECAUSE SOMEONE HAS CHANGED A PREVIOUS NAME TO SUIT HIS WHIPS THEN THE PERSON TO BE ACCUSED OF BEING PETTY IS EX- PRESIDENT kUFFOUR AND HIS NPP at the time and Not Ex-President Mills and the NDC. So Madam MP remove the log on eye before you talk about someone else's one.
Both Atta Mills and John Mahama were not fit to rule our country. They were petty, corrupt and immature. Mahama is worst....he is very greedy and a thif.
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In fact We have big problem in this country reading political meaning into everything, because of envines amongst ourselves. Still the colonial way of thinking is not gone.Lets liberate our minds and be in ourselves.
Is this so-called MP sensible at all? Can she or K4 also justify the reason why K4 decided to change it from Flagstaff House to Jubilee House all because it has been rebuilt? If you have a house and you renovate it or rebuild it in the same location, do you change the house number or the name of the house (if it previously had a name). It was rather the pettiness of K4 that led to the change of the name. Our politicians think they are more sensible that the rest of us. I respect former president K4 a lot but did not support him on that change of name to Jubilee House. it was not necessary. He could have justified it if there was not structure there and therefore no name.
THIS WOMAN MP IS VERY INTELLIGENT. VERY FEW PEOPLE CAN READ INTO THE CHARACTER OF A PERSON BY HIS ACTIONS AND REACTIONS TO SITUATION. MILLS SOMETIMES BEHAVED LIKE A CHILD. HE ALWAYS ALLOWED HIMSELF TO BE MANIPULATED BY SOME NDC MEMBERS. THEY ASKED HIM TO RUN AND HE WOULD RUN EVEN WHEN DYING. SIT AND HE WOULD SIT. DONT GO TO THE JUBILEE HOUSE AND HE WOULD NOT GO. IMMEDIATELY HE DIED MAHAMA RAN TO THE PLACE. HE DID NOT WALK BUT RAN TO THE JUBILEE HOUSE MAKING A F..OO..LL OF MILLS.
So do we name everything Kufuor did as golden, every building, parks and other things were named jubilee. Why, all parks became jubilee parks and so on. What type of people are we, so if another president builds something and name it platinum park or platinum House then where are we heading to.
Right on point. Atta Mills was very petty.
@ BB, NKRUMAH DID NOT NAME IT FLAGSTAFF HOUSE,OUR COLONIAL MASTERS NAME IT SO. NO WONDER TIMIDITY HAS TAKEN OVER YOUR THINKING.
The national discourse has already stared towards the appropriate name Ghana should give to her seat of Government. The following are my reasons: 1. The name to give to the seat of Government of a sovereign state must be given by the nation not by the colonial masters.The name flagstaff was the name given by the British. 2. Former President Kuffour made it clear that in honoring our year of Jubilee,he was naming the seat of Government to benefit the blessings associated with the year of Jubilee. It was not for nothing that Ghana discovered oil in commercial quantities in our year of Jubilee. 3. The NDC, out of force changed the name witout any tangible reason. The name must therefore be changed for the nation to benefit from the full blessings associated with the Year of Jubilee.