The 2016 flag bearer of the New Patriotic Party, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will deliver a speech on the theme, “Danquah – The Unfinished Agenda,” to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the death of Dr J. B. Danquah.
Wednesday, February 4, 2015, marks 50 years of the passing of Dr. Joseph Boakye Danquah, one of the fathers of Ghana’s independence movement, who died in detention, without trial, at the Nsawam Medium Security Prisons on February 4, 1965.
To commemorate the day, the Okyenhene, Osagyefuo Amotia Ofori Panin; the Royal Asona Family of Adadientem; and the children of the Dr. J. B. Danquah have organised a series of activities on the day to celebrate the life of the “doyen of Gold Coast politics.”
The symposium, which will be held at the Accra International Conference Centre at 4pm will be chaired by Prof. Mike Oquaye, former Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament.
Other speakers at the symposium are Prof. S.K.B. Asante, who will speak on “Dr. Danquah’s sacrifice and service to Mother Ghana” and C.K. Tedam, who will address the gathering on “Dr. Danquah and the Northern People’s Party.”
The final event for the day will be a procession of family, friends and well-wishers from the Maronite Church to the Danquah Circle, in Osu.
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