General News of Friday, 22 September 2017
Source: primenewsghana.com
2017-09-22
General Secretary of the NDC, Johnson Asiedu Nketia
The General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress, Johnson Asiedu Nketia has warned a calamity will befall Ghana if parliament approves Akufo-Addo’s proposal to establish 4th August as founders day.
According to him, the so-called founders’ the President intends to honour are the same people who boycotted the passing of the independence law in parliament and as such do not deserve to be celebrated as freedom fighters.
General Mosquito as he is popularly called, noted that members of the ‘Big six’ who the President seeks to honour as freedom fighters do not merit that honour, 60 years after they boycotted an exercise that was to ensure the independence of the nation.
”If we allow this thing to happen in Ghana, unthinkable calamities shall befall Ghana because God will not bless this country for diluting the efforts of Nkrumah to favour another person,” he emphasized.
Asiedu Nketia believes Nana Addo only wants to honor his father and uncle now that he has assumed the highest office of the land. He spoke to Otec FM
He also questioned how the Big six could fail to recognize founder and bankroller of the United Gold Coast Convention(UGCC), Paa Grant but president Akufo-Addo asserts his (Paa Grant) party fought for Ghana’s independence.
”Why do they claim to be from the Danquah Busiah tradition and not from the tradition of Paa Grant who was the founder of the UGCC,” he asked.
General Mosquito is positive that Ghanaians will never accept to observe August 4th as a public holiday, should the majority approve the president’s proposed legislation to Parliament to designate the day as Founders Day.
He continued that the Republic of Ghana changed from Left hand driven vehicles to right on August 4th, 1974, an occasion worth celebrating instead of this ‘unwarranted’ proposed founders day.
