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Kumasi prepares for Independence Day celebration

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Preparations have heightened in Kumasi for the celebration of the country’s 63rd independence anniversary.

The independence anniversary is being celebrated on the theme: “Consolidating our gains” and the climax will have the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Keith Rowley, as the Special Guest.

Publicity on the event is low in Kumasi, in spite of the fact that it is the first time the event is being hosted in the Garden City.

Organisers have, however, been busy shaping up the 43,000-capacity Baba Yara Stadium, the venue for the anniversary parade.

The week-long celebration began last Friday with the 28th February Christianborg Crossroad Shooting Incident in Accra and Muslim prayers on that same day in Kumasi and around the country.

Last Saturday, a major clean-up exercise was held in the Garden City, also as part of the programme line, which will be climaxed on Friday with a parade by schoolchildren, the security services and other identifiable groups.

Independence Day is an official state holiday observed in Ghana and the Ghanaian Diaspora on March 6.

The day marks the declaration of independence from the United Kingdom, which saw a Ghanaian, Dr Kwame Nkrumah, become the first Prime Minister of the independent country.

Ghana was the first sub-Saharan African country to attain independence from British colonial rule.

This will be the second time the event is being held outside Accra, after it was held in the Northern Regional capital, Tamale, last year.

This decentralisation of the national event is a way to bring the meaning, experience and the story of the country’s independence closer to the people.

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