Nkrumah Is The Only African Leader Whose Casket Was Carried By Presidents – Pratt Jabs Akufo-Addo

Kwesi Pratt says no person can overwrite the significant role of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first President, as the founder of the country.

Mr. Pratt found it spiteful that President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo finds difficulties in crediting Kwame Nkrumah as Ghana’s sole founder.

The President, speaking on Founders’ Day, challenged this notion saying “I speak to you this evening, rejecting completely, the notion that one man founded Ghana. While Kwame Nkrumah’s contributions to our independence are undeniable, it is important to acknowledge for ourselves that respect that the struggle for our nation’s freedom was a collective effort spanning several generations”.

He added; “Kwame Nkrumah with his charismatic visionary leadership was undoubtedly a major actor in the final lap of our journey to independence and that is why despite the several unfortunate things that happened after independence under his watch, Parliament in 2019, decided to memorialise his date of birth as Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Day, the only Ghanaian so far to be so honoured in our history.”

But to the Editor-in-Chief of the Insight newspaper, Kwesi Pratt, no one can compare to Nkrumah so far as Ghana’s independence struggle is concerned.

Touting Nkrumah’s unimpeachable legacy, Mr. Pratt stated “Kwame Nkrumah is the only leader who died and his casket was carried by Presidents” and revealed he is the only President in the history of Ghana who wrote 13 classic books which till date remain very expensive and invaluable on the shelves of book stores.

He added; “The most valuable tourist commodity is Kwame Nkrumah.”

These, he said during Peace FM’s “Kokrokoo” show, to dispute the argument that Nkrumah isn’t the only founder of Ghana.