Founders Day to be Aug. 4, Sept. 21 to honour Nkrumah’s memory

President Nana Akufo-Addo is to propose legislation to designate August 4 as Founders Day. This is according to a statement from the Presidency signed by its Director of Communications, Eugine Arhin. The birthday of Ghana’s first President, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, on September 21, will be observed as Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Day. Dr. Kwame Nkrumah’s birthday was originally observed as Founder’s Day.

The Presidency’s statement noted that August 4, is “obviously the most appropriate day to signify our recognition and appreciation of the collective efforts of our forebears towards the founding of a free, independent Ghana.”
August 4 is noted as the date for the formation of the Aborigines’ Rights Protection Society by John Mensah Sarbah in 1897, and the formation of the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC) in 1947 by J.B. Danquah and George Alfred “Paa” Grant.

The Union acknowledges the need for UTAG to stand with their own but more importantly stand with their students who are now at the receiving end of their action.
We use the opportunity to call on the Chief Justice to call for an expedition of the hearing with the believe that justice delayed is justice denied. The major solution to the legal process is a speedy trial.
We are by this release also calling on students within the university setup not to sluggard should the strike action persist as leadership will also be engaging the heads of UTAG subsequently to return to class so as not to create a negative effect on the academic structuring of the year.

Source: Radio Gyampa