{"id":419881,"date":"2017-09-19T06:03:37","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T06:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/09\/19\/founders-day-controversy-akufo-addo-accused-of-dividing-ghanaians\/"},"modified":"2017-09-19T06:03:37","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T06:03:37","slug":"founders-day-controversy-akufo-addo-accused-of-dividing-ghanaians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/09\/19\/founders-day-controversy-akufo-addo-accused-of-dividing-ghanaians\/","title":{"rendered":"Founders Day controversy: Akufo-Addo accused of dividing Ghanaians"},"content":{"rendered":"

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President Nana Akufo-Addo has been criticised creating controversy with his decision to change Founders Day from September 21 to August 4 Founders Day.<\/p>\n

According to a Senior Lecturer in the History and Political Studies Department of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Dr. Samuel Adu-Gyamfi, the President seems to be pushing an agenda to project the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC) formed in 1947 by J.B. Danquah and George Alfred \u201cPaa\u201d Grant, beyond tolerable limits.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe move by the president will only create division among Ghanaians because the proposed celebration lacks the basis in Ghana\u2019s history which will not bring national cohesion,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n

Dr. Adu-Gyamfi was speaking on Adom FM\u2019s Burning Issues programme hosted by Afia Pokua.<\/p>\n

Director of Communications at the Presidency, Eugine Arhin, issued a statement recently indicating that President Nana Akufo-Addo will propose legislation to designate August 4 as\u00a0Founders Day.<\/b><\/p>\n

The statement said: \u201cIt is clear that successive generations of Ghanaians made vital contributions to the liberation of our country from imperialism and colonialism. It is, therefore, fitting that we honour them, as those who contributed to the founding of our nation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe most appropriate way to honour them is to commemorate the day on which the two most significant events in our colonial political history, that led us to independence, occurred \u2013 4th August.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, speaking on the current affairs programme, Dr Adu-Gyamfi said he does not \u201cunderstand why the President and the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) is using this to bring division among Ghanaians.\u201d<\/p>\n

The birthday of Ghana\u2019s first President, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, on September 21, which was originally observed as\u00a0Founder\u2019s Day<\/b>\u00a0will now be observed as\u00a0Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Day<\/b>, according to the statement.<\/p>\n

August 4 is noted as the date for the formation of the Aborigines\u2019 Rights Protection Society by John Mensah Sarbah in 1897, and the formation of the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC) in 1947 by J.B. Danquah and George Alfred \u201cPaa\u201d Grant.<\/p>\n

Already members of the Convention People\u2019s Party says government\u2019s proposal to make August 4, the country\u2019s Founders\u2019 Day is a deliberate ploy to protect the ancestry of the President.<\/p>\n

The party said it was not surprised by the announcement because President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has demonstrated his readiness to alter Ghana\u2019s history to favour his family since he was sworn in on January 7.<\/p>\n

But Dr Adu-Gyamfi has cautioned the President against the move, suggesting that it will create too many.<\/p>\n

He said\u00a0 Ghana\u2019s history must not be diluted.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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