NKRUMAH DESERVE TO BE CELEBRATED (FRONT PAGE)

Story: Moses Dotsey Aklorbortu, Nkroful
The Vice-President, John Dramani Mahama has stated that Ghana’s first President, Osagyfoe Dr Kwame Nkrumah deserved to be singled out for celebration.
He said by bestowing the honor on him, it would be sending the right signals to present generations that this country worth is worth fighting and dying for.
The vice-president assertion that Nkrumah was not alone might be true but in every struggle and revolution, it was only one individual who brings the strands of the struggle to the intended climax.
He said such was the case of Dr Nkrumah when he brought the dreams and aspiration to the expected end and was face with the bigger picture.
Speaking to the chiefs and people of Nkroful in the Ellembelle District as part of the centenary celebration of Dr Nkrumah said the debate over if Nkrumah alone should be celebrated should be critically analyzed.
He said gone were the days that possession of anything Nkrumah was a crime, but decades past Nkrumah was voted man of the century and acclaimed worldwide.
The Vice-President said it was a fact that in Nkrumah was at the forefront in the nationalist struggle for the country’s independence and self determination for Africa’s liberation struggle.
“He laid s solid foundation by providing our nation with infrastructural facilities and social amenities which are still visible today and attest to the vision had for Ghana,” he said.
“As we speak the vision of the Akosombo Dam decades on is still the contributor of the country’s chunk energy needs, and that is the man we are talking about and celebrating today,” he said.
The vice-president said, Nkrumah was not just an individual but an institution in Africa and the diasporas saying “his contribution throughout his life time to African political thought and dignity of Africans remains lasting memories and legacies for generations yet unborn.
“The schools, roads, ports, health facilities, the Akosombo hydro project and his vigorous industrialization and agricultural programmes continue to form the foundation upon which successive governments upon.
He said it was against this backdrop that the ideas of Nkrumah should be immortalized as well as works and unfinished agenda of the visionary leader and patriot.