{"id":273080,"date":"2011-01-08T01:15:07","date_gmt":"2011-01-08T01:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/?p=45398"},"modified":"2011-01-08T01:15:07","modified_gmt":"2011-01-08T01:15:07","slug":"mills-backs-31st-dec-revo-yes-ill-encourage-ndc-to-celebrate-pure-and-simple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/01\/08\/mills-backs-31st-dec-revo-yes-ill-encourage-ndc-to-celebrate-pure-and-simple\/","title":{"rendered":"Mills Backs 31st Dec Revo: Yes, I\u2019ll Encourage NDC To Celebrate; Pure and Simple!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In spite of a Supreme Court ruling at  the end of 1993 banning the public commemoration of the 31st December  1981 Revolution with state funds, President John Evans Fiifi Atta Mills,  in a rare show of defiance on Friday, January 7th, endorsed the  celebrations of the revolution by former President Rawlings and the NDC  party as a whole, albeit impliedly.<br \/>\nThe President, categorically  stated that, the observation of the day, is as much a part of the NDC\u2019s  founding day, and sees nothing wrong with its celebration. According to  him, he will encourage every Tom, Dick and Harry in the party,  especially in his administration, to be involved in commemorating the  occasion.<br \/>\n\u201cLet nobody forget that NDC has December 31st as one of  its founding days. I cannot change it&#8230;Other political parties may  have founders day that they are not even disclosing and they may be  associated with something else. But what i&#8217;m saying is that, i belong to  NDC; this is the party\u2019s Founding Day and if people decide to celebrate  it, I will encourage them to do so. Pure and Simple!,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nPresident Mills made this shocking open admission in answer to a question posed by <strong>Kwami Sefa Kayi<\/strong>, host of <strong>Peace FM<\/strong>\u2019s flagship Programme, \u201c<strong>Kokrokoo<\/strong>\u201d,  during his interaction with Media Owners, News Editors, Morning Show  Hosts, News Anchors and Journalists in the country and those from the  international community at the Editors Forum held at the Castle \u2013 Osu.<br \/>\nOutlawed  by the Supreme Court of Ghana as an unlawful event, the celebration of  the event last year (2010) was attended by leading NDC functionaries and  government officials at the Flagstaff compound, the seat of government  with perhaps the tacit consent of President Mills.<br \/>\nIn response to  why in just two years, four people have served as Ministers of Youth  and Sports, President Mills explained that each minister who headed that  particular Ministry had a specific agenda to execute, after which  he\/she was shown the exit.<br \/>\n\u201c\u2026the reason is that every minister is  sent there to execute a particular programme. When the person finishes,  I know who to send there for that particular programme,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In spite of a Supreme Court ruling at the end of 1993 banning the public commemoration of the 31st December 1981 Revolution with state funds, President John Evans Fiifi Atta Mills, in a rare show of defiance on Friday, January 7th, endorsed the celebrations of the revolution by former President Rawlings and the NDC party [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mills Backs 31st Dec Revo: Yes, I\u2019ll Encourage NDC To Celebrate; Pure and Simple! - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/01\/08\/mills-backs-31st-dec-revo-yes-ill-encourage-ndc-to-celebrate-pure-and-simple\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Mills Backs 31st Dec Revo: Yes, I\u2019ll Encourage NDC To Celebrate; Pure and Simple! 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