The founders day celebration this year has raised a lot of questions after President Akufo Addo stated that Dr. Kwame Nkrumah is not the only founder of Ghana.
Digging into the archives, we have found a letter written by J.B. Danquah is said to be part of the people who championed Ghana’s independence alongside Dr. Nkrumah.
The letter says otherwise. Please read below;
Dear Mr. Obdam,
I exceedingly regret delay in replying to your two letters. That man Kwame Nkrumah, who is now Leader of Government Business has started his tricks again, this time, he who is the Government, is inviting all the political leaders and chiefs to join him to send un ultimatum to His Majesty’s Government of the United Kingdom for “SBLE-GOVERNMENT NOW ” and if rejected to declare Possitive Action strikes and boycott, ete,
“There has been hectic activity all over the place and on Sunday we of the U.G.C.C. met at a great mecting and turned down his
“challenge’ flat, as being an invitation to criminal conspiracy against law and order.
I had to be away in Kumasi for long periods last month and I am just now clearing up a pile of work
J. B. DANQUAH
•Culled from “Journey to Independence and After” Vol. II 1949-1951
