Former Member of Parliament for Ellembele, Samia Yaaba Nkrumah has said President Akufo-Addo and his government can never change the history of Ghana’s political struggles by attempting to discount her father’s contribution.
According to Samia Nkrumah who is also a former National Chairman of the Convention People’s Party, her father’s contribution to the struggles for independence is significant and ''no one can rob her father of the glory.”
She argues, her father’s role as Ghana’s first President and his pan-African vision warrants his special standing in Ghana’s history towards independence and must be respected as such.
Samia Nkrumah was speaking to host of Abusua Nkommo, Kwame Adinkrah in reaction to preparations by the Akufo Addo government to celebrate the founders’ day August 4, 2017 in Saltpond.
The decision has come under intense criticism by some, including the CPP, as being a skewed account of history to suit his father, Edward Akufo-Addo, and uncle, J.B Danquah who also played their roles on the road to independence.
But Samia Nkrumah believes the action by government is “a huge distraction” adding, “Kwame Nkrumah himself said the independence struggle started before him.”
“We agree that there were so many other people in the independence struggle but his role was significant. Nobody can take that away from him.”
“I think Kwame Nkrumah should be giving more prominence. All the records show who the main catalyst was. Kwame Nkrumah had a vision, even though he came to collaborate with the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC), but we know from history he was going to come down anyway.”
“Kwame Nkrumah had a particular pan-African vision for our independence so he was bound to be the catalyst. So yes, thousands were instrumental, but he was the catalyst and let’s give him is due,” Samia Nkrumah asserted.
Samia Nkrumah observes, “we can praise all the others, but this is a man who fashioned our whole nation building policy, free and compulsory education, the Akosombo dam, the industries… I am happy, that finally, even the offshoot of the old opposition to Kwame Nkrumah is saying one district, one factory, and one village one dam. That is what Kwame Nkrumah was planning.”
“The day we realize Kwame Nkrumah’s ideas are, for now, is the day we will stop quarreling over Kwame Nkrumah,” Samia stated.
Source: Abusuafmonline
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Samia, the only person who is deleting Nkrumah's history is you and no one else so wise up from your childish acts and think
When the decision of independence now came.Kwame Nkrumah was for independence now.whilst the up traditions who were not ready were kissing the white man's.
This whole independence thing should have never happened..... the British should have been left in Ghana.....
An Egyptian like u think u are more Ghanaian and knows more of our history please go to Egypt to see whether they will give u that publicity only sycophants will follow u
who is interested in erasing Kwame Nkrumahs history Samia? Who is interested in a person who stole the ideas of the people who paid his way for him to come to Ghana from America and ride on their glory? If there are people who are erasing the history of Kwame Nkrumah your father who never earned a doctorate degree yet went around the whole world parading himself as such, it is his dying party which is being headed by his own blood daughter. Samai for your information, some of us are young but have had the opportunity to read credible history of Ghana from respected Researchers and we know all the facts. When Kwame Nkrumah chose to satisfy his ego centric desires for power and jailed and killed the good people who brought him to fame and glory, this what happens. The Dying and unattractive CPP party is a clear evidence. You talked about your father building the Akosombo Dam , factories and implemented certain policies which today is relevant to the country. Samia nobody will challenge you to that but the question one needs to ask is, what was the cost of some those wasteful spending. If some of us had the same opportunities that Nkrumah had with those huge resources, Ghana will have been better than what we see. Couldn’t the huge resources Ghana inherited from the British have been invested properly for generations unborn to be better. Today our country is struggling under huge debts with high graduate unemployment Today Ghana is saddled with a corrupt civil service because of some of the grave mistakes of Kwame Nkrumah whose parochial ambition sidelined all the important brains of our country. Samia nobody will be interested in erasing Nkrumah history it is his own bad shadows being fanned by the CPP which you head today that will erase his history. Remember neither the NPP, NDC, CPP or any group of persons can erase or change the history of Ghana. The facts are already in the communities. We know the true facts and Nkrumah alone cannot be ascribed that glory. I am concerned Ghanaian.
i started a foundation to build a hospital, 30% on my way i was struggling due to finances. i called you for help because of your ideas in investment, you manage to get investors to complete the hospital .......now you are telling me the building should be named after you ,because it was you who brought the investers...........yooo i dont think UGCC was formed as a football team. There was a reason for its formation.
And so don't be ungrateful,
and so what?