If you put anything Dankwa, Busia at Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum: We will pull it down – Bernard Mornah warns gov’t

The former National Chairman of the Peoples National Convention (PNC), Bernard Mornah  has said the Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park remains a sole reserve for Ghana’s first President, Dr Kwame Nkrumah and nothing and no one else.

He has therefore, warned anything non-Nkrumah erected at the place will be pull down by him and members of the Nkrumaist party.

Mr Mornah made the caution on Pan African TV’s Good Morning Africa on Friday, September 23 monitored by GhanaPlus.com.

“…..And I went to the Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park and I have seen the works going on there. And I asked them whether they have met with the original architect of the place. Dr John Arthur is still alive a very strong and hearty, he design that place”

“…the trees that great persons have come to plant at the memorial park  were not touched and they told me they will put a wall to indicate the heroes   and I told them that…If you put anything Dankwa there, if you put anything Busia there, if you put anything that is not Kwame Nkrumah, we will pull it down,” Mr Mornah said

“…..We continue to insist that Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park is exclusive to Kwame Nkrumah and nothing else, any other thing that is put there, we will pull it down,” he stressed.

Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park closed for rehabilitation works

The Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park also known as the Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum, a resting place of the remains of the Ghana’s first President, Dr Kwame Nkrumah and his wife Fatia is currently closed for rehabilitation and expansion works .

The $3million  project when completed will include a Presidential library, a training center, a restaurant and a VVIP lounge,  a music and light fountain as well as artistic freedom wall.

The project is expected to be completed by March next year.

Speaking at the sod cutting ceremony for the commencement of the renovation project on July 19, Minister for Tourism, Art and Culture, Dr Mohammed Awal said aside improving the country’s tourism; it will befit the status of the country’s first President and also give apt recognition to the country’s other founding fathers, namely: Edward Akufo-Addo, Ako Adjei, Obetsebi-Lamptey, William Ofori-Atta and Dr J.B. Danquah.

“It will further concretise the Pan-African Triangular Centre, the George Padmore Library, the W.E.B. Du Bois Centre for Pan-Africanism and the Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park, hereby consolidating Ghana’s position as the foremost centre of Pan-Africanism and Diaspora research,” Dr Awal said.

Historical background

The Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park was built in 1991 by the Jerry John Rawlings-led Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) government.

The park covers a 5.3acres of land and sits at the Old Polo Grounds where before a huge ecstatic crowd Ghana’s first President, Dr Kwame Nkrumah, flanked by his comrades in the Convention People’s Party (CPP) — Kojo Botsio, Komla Agbeli Gbedemah, Archie Casely- Hayford and Krobo Edusei — declared Ghana’s independence on March 6, 1957.

His remains was first interred at his home town in Nkroful in the Western region before it was moved to the memorial park.

Source: GhanaPlus.com