Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Mr. Keith Christopher Rowley, has arrived in Ghana to grace the 63rd Independence Day Celebration in Kumasi.
The week-long programme to mark Ghana’s independence started last Friday, February 28 with a remembrance ceremony for the Christianborg Crossroad Shooting Incident at the Nationalism Park at Osu, Accra.
The ceremony is a reminder of one of the events leading to Ghana’s independence.
The Christianborg Crossroad Shooting took place on February 28, 1948, when a protest march by unarmed Ghanaian ex-servicemen was broken up by the colonial police, resulting in the death of some of the ex-servicemen, notably Sergeant Cornelius Francis Adjetey, Corporal Patrick Attipoe, and Private Odartey Lamptey.
On the same day, there was a national prayer and thanksgiving service for the Muslim community, as well as an anniversary inter-school debate at the Great Hall of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), which saw Mfantsiman Girls’ SHS, Saltpond, beat Yaa Asantewa Girls’ SHS, Kumasi.
Aside from last Saturday’s clean-up exercise in Kumasi and fitness walks nationwide, a Christian prayer and thanksgiving service was held by Christians nationwide last Sunday.
Later that same day, a ‘What Do You Know?’ competition was held at the Great Hall of KNUST.
A week-long flag-hoisting ceremony started last Monday, while a Presidential Independence Day Awards for schoolchildren were held at the Accra International Conference Centre (AICC).
Rumble @ 63, a boxing fiesta, is also scheduled to take place at the Bukom Boxing Arena in Accra on Saturday, and the following Saturday, March 14, all military garrisons throughout the country will welcome students from basic schools, as well as civilians, to have the opportunity to interact with military men to gain insights into their roles as the defense pillars of the state.
Source: Mybrytfmonline/Kofi Atakora
