Founders Day holiday ‘unnecessary’ – KB Asante September 22, 2014 Ghanaian statesman and retired Diplomat, Dr. K. B. Asante has described as “unnecessary” the celebration of Founders Day as a public holiday. He argues that the day could have been put to better use without the declaring it a public holiday. Dr. Asante, who worked as secretary to Dr. Nkrumah explained that a day in honour of a hard working personality like Dr Kwame Nkrumah should not have been a holiday. “Nkrumah was for hard work…this is Kwame Nkrumah’s birthday and we focus on Kwame Nkrumah,” he said. The Founders Day was instituted by the late President John Evans Atta Mills in 2010 and was set aside to celebrate the birthday, life and legacy of Ghana’s first President, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah.
Posted on: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 13:12:14 +0000