General News of Saturday, 12 May 2018Source: Myjoyonline.comAkufo-Addo destroying historical facts by exaggerating Uncle JB's role - LecturerEditor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide Newspaper, Abdul Malik Kweku BaakoPresident Akufo-Addo has been criticised for consistently exaggerating his family's role in history after he claimed his uncle founded the University of Ghana. He is also played a role in persuading farmers to provide £867,000 as seed money for the university. But a historian and researcher at the University of Ghana, Kweku Darko Ankrah while praising JB Danquah's role says the president's view is exclusionist. The Danquah-Busia tradition does not accept the popular view that Kwame Nkrumah founded Ghana. "He is determined to claim an unclaimed territory of his family history", the opposition NDC said.

Source: GhanaWeb May 12, 2018 10:52 UTC