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Bill laid in Ghana's parliament to introduce three (3) new holidays

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A bill has been laid before parliament to introduce three (3) different holidays in Ghana.

January 7, is being earmarked as Constitution Day, August 4, will be obseved as the Founders Day and September 21, will be Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Day.

Also May 25, currently Africa Unity Day (AU Day) and July 1, which is also Republic Day will become commemorative days but not exactly public holidays.

That’s according to the details of the bill laid before Ghana’s parliament to amend the Public Holiday Act 2001.

According to the bill, August 4, is being made a public holiday because, 1897 was when the real fight for independence begun, hence the need to celebrate individuals like Jacob W. Sey, John Mensah Sarbah and others who helped in that particular regard.

Meanwhile, some MPs’ of the minority believe that this bill if passed would create confusion and change the history of Ghana.

In 2017, President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, proposed that August 4 should be observed as Founders Day in memory of the successive generations of Ghanaians who contributed to the liberation of the country from colonial rule and September 21 set aside as a memorial day for Dr Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first President who was instrumental in the fight for the 6th March independence.

Ghana currently has 14 public holidays in a year.

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