{"id":420389,"date":"2017-09-20T14:28:36","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T14:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/09\/20\/holiday-in-nkrumahs-memory-needless-kweku-baako\/"},"modified":"2017-09-20T14:28:36","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T14:28:36","slug":"holiday-in-nkrumahs-memory-needless-kweku-baako","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/09\/20\/holiday-in-nkrumahs-memory-needless-kweku-baako\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday in Nkrumah\u2019s memory needless \u2013 Kweku Baako"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Kweku-Baako-Jnr-475x267.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"> <\/aside>\n<p>Veteran Journalist and an avowed Nkrumahist, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako has said Ghana\u2019s first President, Dr Kwame Nkrumah does not need a statutory public holiday in his memory.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, though he\u2019s a\u00a0dyed-in-the-wool Nkrumahist and believes that the latter is the founder of the morden state of Ghana, he\u2019s always had a difficulty with instituting a day as a statutory public holiday in memory of Nkrumah or anybody else as a founder of Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>President Akufo Addo\u00a0is set to\u00a0propose legislation to Parliament to designate 4th August as FOUNDERS DAY, and 21st September as KWAME NKRUMAH MEMORIAL DAY, both of which will be observed as public holidays.<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0statement from the Presidency and signed by the Director of Communications at the presidency, Mr Eugene Arhin on Sundy said\u00a0the President has to this end issued an Executive Instrument to commemorate this year\u2019s celebration of KWAME NKRUMAH MEMORIAL DAY as a public holiday.<\/p>\n<p>Following the development, 21st September, which previously was marked as Founders Day will now be celebrated as Nkrumah Memorial Day in honour of Ghana\u2019s first president Dr Kwame Nkrumah, the statement released on Sunday noted.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Peace FM Wednesday, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako stated that he had problems with late President Mills decision to make Nkrumah\u2019s birthday a public holiday in 2010, without trying to build a consensus among Ghanaians knowing very well that it was a controversial subject.<\/p>\n<p>He however said President Akufo Addo\u2019s decision not to cancel the commemoration of Nkrumah\u2019s birthday but revise it from Founder\u2019s day to Memorial day is a huge vindication of Nkrumah which he describes as a paradox.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>This is coming from a UP rooted administration, Nkrumah after the 1966 coup was criminalized, indeed a price tag of 10,000 cedi then, was put on his head as a common criminal. He was being looked for by the Ghana police and INTERPOL for murder. There were three of them, one is Boye Moses who was arrested, caged and paraded in the streets. Everything Nkrumah was criminalized, but step by step almost every government post Nkrumah began to do a certain systematic rehabilitation of Nkrumah\u2019s image though opportunistically each of them was doing it for their own selfish interest.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201c<em>Rawlings with all his anti-Nkrumah, later constructed the Nkrumah Mousoleum in 1992 when Ghana was going to the polls, that was opportunistic, same with what late President Mills did. For me, Nkrumah is a global phenomenon, he doesn\u2019t need a holiday for him to be what he is. Nkrumah\u2019s birth 21\u2019st September, was a public holiday when he was in power but it ceased to be so when he was overthrown, and we should have allowed the thing to rest that way. As I sit here, Nkrumah is the founder of Ghana, you can\u2019t take that away from me. But the very moment you move it from the point of yout belief and you want to institute it as a statutory public holiday, it must come with some consensus. 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