President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says the rotation of the Independence Day anniversary celebrations is aimed at enhancing cohesion, and unity among the Ghanaian people.
According to the president, it is also to make it clear to all segments of the Ghanaian population that they are all part of the “One Ghana Project”.
In 2019, the national Independence Day celebration was held outside the Greater Accra Region for the first time.
It has been moved to other regions since.
The main celebrations of the 66th Independence Day anniversary celebration were held in the Volta Region on March 6, 2023.
Delivering the State of the Nation Address in Parliament on Wednesday, March 8, 2023, President Akufo-Addo said, “I made the decision to rotate the Independence Day anniversary celebrations in order to enhance the cohesion and unity of our nation, and to make it clear to all segments of our population that we are all part of the “One Ghana Project”. I am glad to inform the House that it was a happy and grand event, set against the breathtakingly beautiful background of the Adaklu mountains.”
President Nana Akufo-Adddo noted that sixty-six (66) years since Ghana’s independence, the country has taken steady strides to becoming a more developed country.
“The Ghana of 1957 is not the Ghana of 2023. We have come a long way since the days of our six million population, with very few modern amenities for its people, to today’s population of thirty-two million, with a growing stock of modern infrastructure, spanning drones to supply our medicines, to the Ghana Card which identifies each of us as proudly Ghanaian.”
He added “As President, I have championed the innovation of policies and the execution of projects that have helped improve the quality of life of the Ghanaian people. And, God willing, I will continue on a path that brings the most benefit to the people of Ghana.”
