Dr Nyaho Nyaho-Tamakloe is a member of the NPP
founding member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr Nyaho Nyaho-Tamakloe, has insisted that Dr Kwame Nkrumah is the sole founder of Ghana.
In an interview with GhanaWeb’s Etsey Atisu on the Lowdown, he stated categorically, “I don’t believe in what people term the founders. We have one founder and that is Nkrumah but somewhere along the line, in his political life, after having done a lot for the nation, he was removed so, it becomes a historical fact. You don’t come to destroy it and that is one big mistake we have been making in this country.”
Nkrumah would oppose renaming Kotoka International Airport today – Dr Nyaho-Tamakloe
According to him, there should be no ambiguity about Ghana’s founding figure, arguing that Nkrumah’s role in uniting the country and leading it to independence sets him apart.
“Nkrumah was able to bring Ghanaians together, irrespective of where the person came from. He built schools, and one interesting thing that he did was that people from either the North, West, East or South or Middle Belt came together in these schools,” he remarked.
Dr Nyaho-Tamakloe further cautioned against attempts to alter historical narratives.
In his 2024 Founders’ Day address on Saturday, August 3, the former President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo rejected claims that Kwame Nkrumah singlehandedly founded Ghana.
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“I speak to you this evening, rejecting completely the notion that Ghana was founded by one man. While Kwame Nkrumah’s contributions to our independence are undeniable, it is important to acknowledge for ourselves that respect that the struggle for our nation’s freedom was a collective effort spanning several generations,” the president said in his broadcast.
He argued that groups including Joseph Casely Hayford and Thomas Hutton-Mills’ British West African Nation Congress and several others contributed to Ghana’s freedom and subsequent independence.
“The formation of the Aborigines Rights Protection, the British West African Nation Congress, the United Gold Coast Convention, the work of countless unsung heroes, and the tenacious spirit of our people all played vital parts in bringing us to freedom and independence,” he added.
Watch the interview below:
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