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, 21st September, 2024 marks Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Day which is a Statutory Public Holiday.
However, in view of the fact that 21st 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, 23rd 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.