Government Declares September 23 As Public Holiday

The Ministry of Interior has declared next week Monday, 23rd September, 2024, as a public holiday to mark the Memorial Day of the first President of Ghana, Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah, which falls on Saturday, 21st September, 2024.

The Interior Ministry, in a statement announcing the day, emphasized the need for Ghanaians to observe it throughout the country.

The Ministry stated: ” The general public is hereby informed that Saturday, 21^st September, 2024 marks Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Day which is a Statutory Public Holiday.

However, in view of the fact that 21^st September, 2024 falls on a Saturday, His Excellency, the President of the Republic of Ghana, has by Executive Instrument (E.I), in accordance with Section 2 of the Public Holidays and Commemorative Days Act, (Act 601) declared Monday, 23^rd September, 2024 as an additional Public Holiday and should be observed as such throughout the country”.

Read the Interior Ministry’s entire statement below.

This will be the sixth time a holiday has been declared to celebrate Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Day since Parliament approved it in 2019.

Until 2019, September 21 each year was celebrated as a Founder’s Day public holiday to remember Ghana’s first president, Kwame Nkrumah, as the founder of modern-day Ghana.

Kwame Nkrumah was born on September 21, 1909, at Nkroful in the Western Region.