{"id":1170695,"date":"2022-08-08T16:11:03","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T16:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/08\/oliver-barker-npp-government-want-to-fight-kwame-nkrumahs-legacy\/"},"modified":"2022-08-08T16:11:03","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T16:11:03","slug":"oliver-barker-npp-government-want-to-fight-kwame-nkrumahs-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/08\/oliver-barker-npp-government-want-to-fight-kwame-nkrumahs-legacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Oliver Barker &#8211; NPP Government Want To Fight Kwame Nkrumah\u2019s Legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>Fixthecountry Conveynor Oliver Barker has asserted that, the NPP government want to fight Osaagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah&#8217;s legacy.<\/p>\n<p>In a post shared on his official Facebook page on Monday, 8th August 2022, Oliver Barker wrote;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The fact that in the greatest economic crisis in the history of the 4th Republic, this Government still finds the time to fight Nkrumah\u2019s legacy amazes.&#8221;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/b4dd5ef9bb154abf854b01c536fcee0e\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Oliver also alleged that they will withdraw the 2 cedi note bearing Nkrumah\u2019s face from circulation. The fact that they found time to print a poster of the \u201cBig Six\u201d which makes sure that the small 5 appear but the Big One is cut in half amazes me.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Never forget that the small 5 thought that the Big one was crazy. He won independence for us. They didn\u2019t.&#8221; Oliver Barker added.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Background<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The comments of Oliver Barker comes as a background to the picture below.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/fc1f7ae0af7b46fcaa39da9282207276\"\/><\/p>\n<p>This photo shows Kwame Nkrumah being cropped out of the Big Six at the Founders&#8217; Day Luncheon event in honour of senior citizens on August 4, 2022<\/p>\n<p>There is also a rising internet discussion about what appears to be another argument that Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo\u2019s administration may be out to undermine Kwame Nkrumah&#8217;s significance and place in Ghanaian history.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reactions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Following the above, people have reacted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In as much as they try to change our history to suit themselves,the fact still remains that Nkrumah is the greatest politician in our political history.No amount of what they&#8217;ll do can change that the minds of Ghanaians when it comes to our political history.&#8221; A user said. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/f5a8b687441640969df56a913d0e9fb4\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Others also believe it was just not intentional on the part of government.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/e8cfb5d58140410e98a7e3383ce13ba5\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well Nana Addo&#8217;s father&#8217;s name not in AU headquarters, not known by other African countries. He can do whatever evil thing he feel like doing.&#8221; Another user said.<\/p>\n<p>According to some people the fact that Founder&#8217;s day was removed from 21 September to 4th August really shows that Akufo-Addo want to write off Kwame Nkrumah the leader of the big six from history.<\/p>\n<p>Other people are of the view that, Nkrumah&#8217;s legacy has being built and it&#8217;s time for Ghanaians to focus on the new and stop the endless debate.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: Currentworldnews (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       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In a post shared on his official Facebook page on Monday, 8th August 2022, Oliver Barker wrote; &#8220;The fact that in the greatest economic crisis in the history of the 4th Republic, this Government still finds the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1170696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[7984,1271,1090,3651,15960,15298,7025,7553],"class_list":["post-1170695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-barker","tag-fight","tag-government","tag-kwame","tag-legacy","tag-nkrumahs","tag-npp","tag-oliver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170695","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=1170695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1170695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1170695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1170695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}