A Political Science Lecturer at the University of Ghana, Dr Kwame Asah-Asante has noted that Ghana has too many holidays.
In his view, the number of holidays in Ghana is impeding economic development.
He has called for a review of the holidays and scrap those that are not needed.
“There are too many holidays in Ghana, let us review them and do away with those we don’t need,” he said on the Big Issue on TV3 Tuesday, August 6 while contributing to a discussion on the Founders Day celebration.
He further agreed with President Akufo-Addo that Ghana was not founded by one man.
He states that others play a role in ensuring the independence of Ghana therefore Dr Kwame Nkrumah cannot be said to be the Founder of Ghana.
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in his 2024 Founders’ Day address on Saturday, August 3, Mr Akufo-Addo objected to the assertion that Ghana was founded by Dr Kwame Nkrumah.
In 2019, Parliament passed a law establishing August 4 as Founders’ Day to honour the collective efforts of those who contributed to Ghana’s independence struggle, while designating September 21 as Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Day.
“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.
“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.
“Kwame Nkrumah with his charismatic visionary leadership was undoubtedly a major actor in the final lap of our journey to independence and that is why despite the several unfortunate things that happened after independence under his watch, Parliament in 2019, decided to memorialise his date of birth as Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Day, the only Ghanaian so far to be so honoured in our history,” 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.
