The family of Ghana’s first President, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, has vehemently rejected the change of September 21 as Founder’s Day to Nkrumah Memorial Day.
It says for Nkrumah to lead the charge for Ghana’s freedom, it is unwarranted for anyone to assume his role at the time doesn’t deserve the projection it was hitherto accorded.
Speaking with OnuaOnline after a procession and cake-cutting ceremony in Osagyefo’s honour Thursday dawn, September 21, 2023, one of the leaders of Dr Nkrumah’s family, Samuel Quayson, said Ghanaian leaders are ungrateful and easily forget deeds of heroes who are worthy of celebration.
For neglecting the roots of the man that championed the fight for Ghana’s independence and altering the honour bequeathed him by the state, Opanin Quayson said silence about the development, at this point in time, is golden.
“It is good (that we are celebrating Nkrumah’s birthday) but we the family weren’t informed. We were just informed this afternoon. But it is good Nkrumah is being celebrated this year just as other years.
When asked about the Founder’s Day Founders’ Day debacle, the old man said the family is very much disappointed and not in support of it.
“The new development is not a good thing. We the family don’t support. We have nothing to tell Ghanaian leaders. Look at Nkrumah’s family house.
Ghanaian leaders are ungrateful. When you look, nothing shows we are celebrating him,” he lamented.
Ghana, prior to the assumption of office of President Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, commemorated Founder’s Day in recognition of the contributions of Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah towards Ghana’s independence struggle.
But after the Akufo-Addo government came to the fore, the situation has changed with the Founder’s Day being changed to Founders’ Day.
The Founders’ Day is a national public holiday observed to commemorate the contributions of all the people, notably the “Big Six” who led the struggle for Ghana’s independence.
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