By Seth Ayiah
President Akufo-Addo has inaugurated the redeveloped Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park and Mausoleum in Accra.
The project cost 3.5 million dollars. This was secured from a 40-million-dollar loan facility from the World Bank through the Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture in 2018.
This is to strengthen and enable the tourism environment, address constraints in the sector, develop tourism sites and destinations, and finance the costs of tourism enterprises among others.
On 19th July, 2022, the Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture, Dr. Ibrahim Mohammed Awal cut the sod for the commencement of the rehabilitation and redevelopment of the Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park and Mausoleum.
The Memorial Park which was built by the late President, Jerry John Rawlings, was dedicated to Ghana’s first president, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah to honor him and serve as a mausoleum for the remains of the First President and his wife, Fathia Nkrumah.
The park which was opened to the public in 1992 has received visitors from all over the world numbering about 98 thousand annually, to pay homage to the Ghanaian icon and a celebrated Pan-Africanist.
The Park is one of the 10 most visited sites in Ghana.