Former Chief Justice, Sophia Akuffo, has stated emphatically that marching on independence day as a nation is not important.
To her, government needs to use money set aside for the Independence day celebrations for worthwhile initiatives that will help Ghanaians.
She feels it makes no sense to the country’s spend limited funds on independence celebrations while the government is working to turn around an ailing economy.
The national commemoration of Ghana’s 66th anniversary of independence will take place in Ho, the capital of the Volta region, on March 6; other regions and MMDAs will also hold separate durbars to commemorate the occasion.
“We should celebrate our Independence Day, but to gather and march does not matter. I think whatever money is going to be spent on this celebration with everybody going to the Volta region, if they had selected a deprived district and built a new school or selected a ramshackle district hospital or health centre and upgraded it and named it Independence school or independence hospital, it will be good.
“Then every year they pick a region and a project and do it, that would be money better spent…this will inure to the benefit of the people, and it will last, but they are going to talk, march, eat and come back and then that’s all”.
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