The President of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo has reiterated that he made the decision to rotate the Independence Day anniversary celebrations to enhance cohesion and unity of the nation.
The Independence Day spectacle used to be held in Accra’s Independence Square, but since 2017, the celebrations have rotated among the country’s various regions.
The 66th Independence Day Parade was recently held in the Volta Region.
Despite a good course, some members of the Opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) have raised concerns about the rotation of the celebrations.
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But while delivering the State of the Nation’s Address in Parliament on Wednesday, March 8, 2023, the President said, “I made the decision to rotate the Independence Day anniversary celebrations in order to enhance the cohesion and unity of our nation, and to make it clear to all segments of our population that we are all part of the ‘One Ghana Project’. I am glad to inform the House that it was a happy and grand event, set against the breathtakingly beautiful background of the Adaklu mountains.”
He continued, “The sixty-six (66) years since our independence, Ghana has taken steady strides to becoming a more developed country. The Ghana of 1957 is not the Ghana of 2023. We have come a long way since the days of our six million population, with very few modern amenities for its people, to today’s population of thirty-two million, with a growing stock of modern infrastructure, spanning drones to supply our medicines, to the Ghanacard which identifies each of us as proudly Ghanaian.”
President Akufo-Addo again said, “As President, I have championed the innovation of policies and the execution of projects that have helped improve the quality of life of the Ghanaian people. And, God willing, I will continue on a path that brings the most benefit to the people of Ghana.”
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