Accra, March 21, GNA – The chiefs and people of Asafo-Akyem in the Estern Region have congratulated President John Dramani Mahama and Ghanaians on the 56th Independence Anniversary of the nation.
A statement issued on Thursday by Nana Baah Ammentem, Krontihene/Acting Chief of Asafo-Akyem, copied to the Ghana News Agency, praised the nation’s heroes and heroins who laid down their lives in the struggle for independence.
It said Yaa Asantewaa, the woman warrior, Nii Bonney, Osu Alata Matse and others had played pivotal roles in the struggle for independence.
‘The identity of our militant youth, workers, market women, farmers, fishermen and other groups has also long been noted in letters of gold in remembrance of their immense contribution to the struggle for Ghana’s Independence, which indeed came on 6th March, 1957,’ the statement said.
It noted that the major causes of the nation’s underdevelopment had been the politics of disunity, hatred, rivalry, violence and corruption among other things and said the failure of the nation’s politicians to bury their personal interests, work in the national interest and consensus building had been another source of worry in the national discourse.
It said the negative attitude of politicians, if not changed, would constitute a perpetual stumbling block to the nation’s progress and development, the signs of which the nation was experiencing today.
It said: ‘On this occasion Ghana should be seen as a well united and developed nation in which opportunities for advancement abound for all’.
The statement said the chiefs and people of Asafo-Akyem pledged their unflinching support to President Mahama and expressed gratitude to government for the infrastructural development in the area.
It said among them were the construction works on Asafo Senior High School, the construction and tarring of the Asafo-Kukurantumi road as well as the proposed construction of culverts and tarring of Asafo roads.
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