General News of Saturday, 15 December 2018Source: 3news.comAkufo-Addo accused of ‘self-aggrandizement’ over new holidaysMP for Tamale Central, Inusah FuseiniPresident Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has been accused by Member of Parliament for Tamale Central, Alhaji Inusah Fuseini, of “grandstanding” over plans to have August 4 and January 7 marked as public holidays. Interior Minister Ambrose Dery on Thursday, December 13 laid a new bill before Parliament on behalf of the government to amend the Public Holidays Act to include January 7 and August 4 as statutory public holidays. The new bill is seeking to make January 7 Constitution Day and August 4 Founders’ Day. “The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, is indeed in grandstanding, political grandstanding and it appears to me what he has done is an exercise of self-aggrandizement,” he said on TV3's Saturday morning show, The Key Points. He questioned the basis for seeking to make January 7 a Constitution Day when the 1992 Constitution “was gazetted as a legal document of May 15, 1992”.

Source: GhanaWeb December 15, 2018 13:07 UTC