{"id":354184,"date":"2017-09-17T15:45:51","date_gmt":"2017-09-17T15:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=354184"},"modified":"2017-11-10T11:20:17","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T11:20:17","slug":"founders-day-to-be-aug-4-sept-21-to-honour-nkrumahs-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/09\/founders-day-to-be-aug-4-sept-21-to-honour-nkrumahs-memory\/","title":{"rendered":"Founders Day to be Aug. 4, Sept. 21 to honour Nkrumah’s memory"},"content":{"rendered":"
President Nana Akufo-Addo is to propose legislation to designate August 4 as Founders Day.<\/p>\n
This is according to a statement from the Presidency signed by its Director of Communications, Eugine Arhin.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.”<\/p>\n
August 4 is noted as the date for the formation of the Aborigines\u2019 Rights Protection Society by John Mensah Sarbah in 1897, and the formation of the\u00a0United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC) in 1947 by\u00a0J.B. Danquah and George Alfred \u201cPaa\u201d Grant.<\/p>\n