{"id":1167914,"date":"2022-08-05T18:24:07","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T18:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/05\/founders-day-emulate-selfless-patriotism-of-the-big-six\/"},"modified":"2022-08-05T18:24:07","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T18:24:07","slug":"founders-day-emulate-selfless-patriotism-of-the-big-six","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/05\/founders-day-emulate-selfless-patriotism-of-the-big-six\/","title":{"rendered":"Founders&#8217; Day: Emulate selfless patriotism of the Big Six"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has entreated Ghanaians to inculcate the spirit of patriotism and support the efforts of the government in reviving Ghana\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n<p>It also reminded Ghanaians to emulate \u201cthe selfless patriotism of members of the Big Six, who suffered imprisonment, persecution, and harassment in their quest for a free independent country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we can boldly call ourselves Ghanaians; if we can vote and choose for ourselves the leaders we want, then we should know that others sacrificed for the freedom we enjoy today. The onus, therefore, lies on us, to make sacrifices in making our country a better place for future generations and ourselves,\u201d the NPP\u2019s statement signed by its General Secretary, Justin Kodua Frimpong said.<\/p>\n<p>The Founders\u2019 Day is celebrated on August 4 each year since it was instituted in the first term of office of President Nana Addo-Dankwa Akufo-Addo in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>It replaced the 21st of September which was celebrated to mark Dr. Kwame Nkrumah\u2019s involvement in the independence struggle of Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>President Nana Addo-Dankwa Akufo-Addo\u2019s administration, in 2018, laid before Parliament a Public Holidays Amendment Bill by the Minister of the Interior, Ambrose Dery.<\/p>\n<p>The bill was subsequently passed, despite the Minority\u2019s opposition.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has entreated Ghanaians to inculcate the spirit of patriotism and support the efforts of the government in reviving Ghana\u2019s economy. It also reminded Ghanaians to emulate \u201cthe selfless patriotism of members of the Big Six, who suffered imprisonment, persecution, and harassment in their quest for a free independent country.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1066517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[944,473,9177,20742,13510,13212],"class_list":["post-1167914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-big","tag-day","tag-emulate","tag-founders","tag-patriotism","tag-selfless"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1167914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1167914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1167914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1167914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}