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The Member of Parliament for Jomoro, Samia Nkrumah, has expressed concern over the inability of past governments to continue programmes started by her late father Dr. Kwame Nkrumah after he was overthrown in 1966.She said Dr. Nkrumah’s idea of constructing the Bui Dam to complement the Akosombo Dam for example, was abandoned after her father’s rein only to be revisited at a reduced capacity.The Jomoro MP was speaking at a lecture at Wa organized by the committee celebrating the centenary of Dr. Nkrumah.The lecture themed “His Ideas, His Vision, His Time and the Record,” drew several hundreds of students in the municipality to the Wa campus of the UDS.The secretary of the committee, Benard Mornah, who hails from the region, said after several years of depending on the Bretton Wood institutions, Ghana has not been able to realize its ideals.He urged government to completely wean itself off the programmes of the IMF and the World Bank which pretend to have solutions to the country’s problems.Ms Nkrumah’s speech was punctuated with standing ovations, Joy News’ Upper West Regional correspondent Rafik Salam reported.Ms Nkrumah, however, expressed delight in memories of Dr Nkrumah wearing a smock made in the region to declare Ghana independent on 6 March 1966.“And he treasured this smock so much that when he chose to make the most announcement in his life,…he chose to wear the northern smock,” she said.Source: Myjoyonline.com/Ghana
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