{"id":420525,"date":"2017-09-20T22:34:51","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T22:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/09\/20\/ghana-founded-by-many-kenneth-ashigbey\/"},"modified":"2017-09-20T22:34:51","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T22:34:51","slug":"ghana-founded-by-many-kenneth-ashigbey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/09\/20\/ghana-founded-by-many-kenneth-ashigbey\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana founded by many \u2013 Kenneth Ashigbey"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The outgoing Managing Director of the Graphic Communications Group Limited (GCGL) Kenneth Ashigbey has waded into the controversy surrounding who founded modern Ghana, describing the ongoing brouhaha as unnecessary.<\/p>\n

Speaking Wednesday on Starr Chat, he said Ghana could not have been founded by an individual and that all must be recongnised for the divergent roles they might had played in the country\u2019s independence struggle.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that definitely, there were a group of people who founded Ghana and it is important that we make it inclusive. We bring everybody into it. But we need to know that among the equals [Dr. Kwame] Nkrumah was above them. But he couldn\u2019t have done it alone. He required other people to have played their roles,\u201d he said on Accra-based Starr FM.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, a member of the Socialist Forum-Ghana Dr. David Pessey described as \u201csilly\u201d attempts by the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) to rewrite the history of the country.<\/p>\n

He said this Wednesday while debating against the motion that Ghana has more than one founder on GHone TV moderated by Kafui Dey.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven for people in the diaspora, this debate will sound quite silly to them,\u201d he argued. \u201cThe NPP has executive power and can change the history of this country but it will not stay. The business of falsifying history will not stop now.\u201d<\/p>\n

President Akufo-Addo is set to propose to Parliament to adopt August 4 as Founders\u2019 Day for the Republic.<\/p>\n

The proposal will also request parliament to approve September 21 as a holiday to be observed in honour of Ghana\u2019s first President Dr. Kwame Nkrumah.<\/p>\n

In a statement, the President bemoaned the confusion that has heralded the role previous leaders played towards Ghana\u2019s independence.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is unfortunate that 60 years after independence, the history of the events leading to it continues to be embroiled in unnecessary controversy, due largely to partisan political considerations of the moment,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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