Dr Sekou Nkrumah, son of Dr Kwame Nkrumah, has asked President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to allow Ghana’s first president’s role in the struggle for independence untouched.
President Akufo-Addo renewed the debate over whether Ghana should have founding fathers or a founding father while delivering his speech Monday to mark Ghana’s 60 independence anniversary.
According to him, the struggle for independence was started by members of the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC).He listed Joseph Boakye Danquah, Emmanuel Obetsebi-Lamptey, William Ofori-Atta, Ebenezer Ako-Adjei and Edward Akufo-Addo as the pioneers of the independence fight.
Mr Akufo-Addo added that it was when the UGCC leaders decided they needed a full-time general secretary that they brought in a younger nationalist in Mr Nkrumah.
“Soon thereafter, on 28th February, 1948, the notorious and senseless killings of three ex-servicemen, Sergeant Adjetey, Corporal Attipoe, and Private Odartey Lamptey... undoubtedly, quickened the pace of the independence movement,” he said.
This narrative of the president has not gone well with several Nkrumahists who believe he is re-writing history.
Dr Sekou Nkrumah, in a short letter addressed to the president, said: “Dear Nana Addo, I am with you in elevating 6th March to advance the interest of all Ghanaians as well as project all our heroes in a positive and dignified way so as to unite our dear country. However, I beg of you to leave 21st September for Nkrumah alone!
“I had my differences with the late Professor Mills but I stood with him in all humility for the honour he gave our first President Kwame Nkrumah in declaring his birthday a public holiday.”
Source: classfmonline.com
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Hahahah, this is the kind of president you voted for so please swallow what ever Nana Addo does this is just the beginning. Seeeeemia
sekou u are a BIG ***barred word*** . junke , wee boy like u , modda ***barred word***
Give us a break. Frustrated man. You are a disappointment to your father even in his grave
@alimak think before u talk cos no one is saying u cant share ur views but what sekou is saying is irrelevant and aside that Nana was older than sekou at that time so no one is saying he is a supreme being and has never sin before, we always want the truth to to spoken and that is all. @lion, if there is someone who want to sell ECG then that mindset was with JDM so stop talking of ECG and GHacem to relate to Nana who came two months ago and if i may asked how musch was cement before NAna came to power and how much is it now that he is in power? think before u talk next time cos seems u lack commons sense
$hut up all of you...is Nkrumah God? Why have you given him so much attention as if he commanded milk and honey from heaven..yeah i know he was the centre man behind Ghana gaining independence but he couldn't have achieved that alone...he got helped from other people.so what's this noise about what the president said...let us breathe,Nkrumah was no exceptional human being
Why don't we rather talk about those who are sending us back into slavery? Ashanti gold fields has sold through enlistment, Ghacem winch Nkrumah established to provide cheap cement for the rapid development of Ghana's infrastructure was sold through enlistment, if I wasn't for dangotey's intervention we would be buying cement like 200 CEDI's. Now Nana Addo wants to sell ECG through the same enlistment. If he goes ahead we should forget about this country. Nana don't del us into servitude please!!!
EIII NPP fuo, so whr is Akuffo Addo at that time he was young as Sekou so what are people talking about remember one day Ghanaians will treat Akuffo Addo same. stop that hypocrisy, arrogant, lies and ***barred word***. you want power and bcos of lies, violence and tension in the country Ghanaians have voted for u, so what is it again? stop that as if Akuffo Addo is supreme being that he has not sin or lie in this world before. remember you people will be in Opposition oneday dnt think you will be in power forever. Akuffo Addo is president today so people should not share their views? is that what you people are saying? remember wht you people did to Atta Mills and Mahama the will be not single day pass without insulting, instigating people to go on demonstration and criticize on everything they do all bcos of power.
Dr. Kwame Nkrumah became a part of the team that fought and wrestled the Gold Coast free from colonial thraldom. It was not Dr. Kwame Nkrumah that borrowed the ancient GHANA name for our country. It was Dr. J.B. Dankwah who had suggested the GHANA name for our country. We cherish Kwame Nkrumah only as a member of that founding team that wrenched Independence for this country of ours. Let me emphatically state here that Dr. Kwame Nkrumah botched the Ghana economy growing to any healthy growth. Kwame Nkrumah had a problem, Dr Sekou Nkrumah need to be told.
Nana addo is eevil and ssatanic .very divisive character couple with arrogance and pomposity