The family of Ghana’s founding president, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah is asking government to return his remains to his hometown, Nkroful in the Western region. The chiefs and people of Nkroful held a solemn ceremony at Nkrumah’s burial chamber Wednesday to commemorate his 102nd birthday. But one thing snuffed out the beauty of the occasion – the knowledge that Kwame Nkrumah’s body was not in the grave. Chief of Nkroful Nana Kwasi Kutuah IV, told Joy FM’s Western Region correspondent, Kwaku Owusu-Peprah: “We will surely write a letter to the president to appeal to him to consider the decision to bring the body here.” An elder of the family noted: “I don’t like the place where Kwame [Nkrumah] is; he comes from this town.” He said since in the Ghanaian tradition one is mostly buried in his or her home town, it is prudent that his remains were returned to Nkroful. He said the family is not benefiting financially from the Nkrumah Mausoleum in Accra and asked that part of proceeds realised from the mausoleum, for now, should be given to Nkrumah’s paternal and maternal families “so that we can educate our children with this amount.”