Former Chief Justice of Ghana,  Her Ladyship Sophia Akuffo, has kicked against the celebration of Ghana’s Independence Day with festivities across the country.

According to Mad. Sophia Akuffo, the celebration is a waste of scarce resources that could be channeled into meaningful projects for the benefit of the entire country.

Speaking to journalists on the sidelines of a public lecture organized by the University of Ghana as part of the country’s celebration of the 66th Independence Day, the former Chief Justice noted that she cannot understand why a country with a struggling economy spends huge sums of monies on a celebration which will not inure to the benefit of the nation.

She added that she does not see the need why children should be gathered under the scorching sun to march.

In her opinion, the budgetary allocations for the celebrations should be sent to deprived communities and districts to undertake developmental projects. She further added that those projects can be named after Ghana’s independence.

Such a celebration, Mad. Sophia Akuffo says will make a positive impact through Ghana’s Independence.

“We should celebrate our Independence Day but to gather and march does not matter. I think whatever money is going to be spent on this celebration with everybody going to the Volta region, if they had selected a deprived district and built a new school or selected a ramshackle district hospital or health center and upgraded it and named it Independence school or independence hospital, it will be good,” the former Chief Justice noted.

She further continued, “then every year they pick a region and a project and do it, that would be money better spent…this will inure to the benefit of the people, and it will last, but they are going to talk, march, eat and come back and then that’s all.”

The capital of the Volta region, Ho, will on Monday 6th March play host to the national celebration of Ghana‘s 66th Independence anniversary while other regions also host their respective durbars to mark the day.