President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has justified the instituting of August 4 as Founders’ Day saying it is to celebrate the collective efforts of the country’s forebears who led the fight for the attainment of independence from Colonial rule.
Speaking in Accra at a Luncheon in honor of Senior citizens, President Akufo-Addo, said the day is the most appropriate to recognize and appreciate the collective efforts of the forebears towards the founding of a free independent Ghana.
It is the first event to commemorate August 4, as founders day. There was an enactment of how the UCC was formed.
August 4 was chosen as the date for Founders’ Day as it marks two important events in Ghana’s history.
It is 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, Ghana’s first mass political party formed in the Gold Coast to spearhead social agitations for independence.
According to the President, these people must be recognised in the struggle for independence.
He called for a concerted efforts to break way from the colonial structure of raw material producing and exporting economy.
President Akufo-Addo said said his government is laying a foundation for the transformation of the economy from the exporter of raw materials to a modern, value adding industrialized one.
He called on all Ghanaians to join hands in transforming the economy.
