General News of Saturday, 6 October 2018Source: Myjoyonline.comDead persons don’t change society – Kwesi Pratt on paying ultimate price for nationKwesi Pratt JnrVeteran journalist Kwesi Pratt Jnr has said in the country’s quest to make people patriotic, it is important to psyche society to see the need to live, think and struggle. “If you educate yourself and find out what is wrong with your society, you are making a huge contribution to changing and building that society,” he said. According to Mr Pratt, the contributions people like him and others have made by taking on the government of the day is often exaggerated. ‘Kume Pr3ko’ was an anti-government demonstration that occurred in the country in 1995, led by the current President, Nana Akufo-Addo. The protest took place in opposition to the Value Added Tax (VAT) initiative which was introduced under the Jerry John Rawlings administration.

Source: GhanaWeb October 06, 2018 15:28 UTC