Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom would be celebrating this year’s Independence Day with the chiefs and people of Elmina, in the Komenda Edina Eguafo Abrem (KEEA) Constituency in the Central region.
Unlike the previous occasions, where he performed the commemorative day at his residence in Accra, the 2008 CPP presidential candidate is planning a number of activities with the people of Elmina and other constituents of the KEEA.
Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom
The programme line-up includes a live broadcast; march past by school children of the KEEA; quiz competition for school children and address of Elmina citizens and residents. As has been the usual practice, Dr Nduom plans to mark the occasion today March 5th, a day before the national celebration which falls tomorrow Saturday, March 6th, 2010.
Some 700 school children from the KEEA are expected to take part in a march throughout the KEEA municipality.
Dr Nduom, who is also the immediate past Member of Parliament for the KEEA, is expected to give live broadcast on a local radio station at Elmina today to talk about the relevance of 6th March and what in his estimation, should be an occasion for sober reflection of the Ghanaian situation after 53 years of attaining nationhood.
Together with other leading personalities in the KEEA, Dr Nduom would later in the afternoon, address the chiefs and people of Elmina as well as other indigenes from the KEEA at the Nana Kobina Gyan Square at Elmina.
Dr Nduom would be talking to his constituents about the relevance and significance of the day, the contribution of Ghana’s first President, Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah and others towards the Independence struggle.
As part of activities to mark the occasion, Dr Nduom is sponsoring a radio quiz competition for Elmina school children. The competition is expected to centre on the history of Ghana’s independence; events and facts about the occasion and Dr Kwame Nkrumah, the chief architect of Ghana’s Independence.
First three winners of the competition would be rewarded with very lucrative prizes. The almost 700 school children will later in the day be offered refreshment after the march at Elmina.
