Ghanaian historian Prof. Harold Abubakar Makinson has expressed outrage at the celebration of Ghana’s 66th independence day parade.
He said it would not have been necessary to celebrate it today, considering the current challenges confronting the country.
Speaking on Frontline on Rainbow Radio 87.5Fm, the historian asserted that it was not prudent for us to have celebrated this year because of our economic crisis.
He suggested that the money allocated for the celebration could have gone to other vital areas.
”With all apologies to our brothers in the Volta Region, we love them, and it was an opportunity to have to bite the national cake. But the hopeless situation in which we are is not food to celebrate.
What is the use of using the gargantuan money to celebrate independence whilst people are jobless, when there is a shortage of vaccines?”
He stressed, ”we should have used the money to order vaccines, we should have used the money to buy textbooks for our children, we should have used the money to construct more classrooms, we should have used the money to invest in the youth”.
He said ”we did not suggest this under Kwame. Even under military regimes, Ghanaians did not suffer like we are suffering under this government.
The historian said although all military regimes are bad, Ghanaians did not experience pain like they are witnessing today.
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
