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Busia's death is remembered
Wenchi, Aug 29, Ghanadot/GNA - Bishop
Charles Kwasi Konadu of Wenchi Diocese of the Methodist
Church, has stressed the need for an attitudinal change
among Ghanaians if the country was to make any meaningful
headway in development.
"If we do not change and continue to exhibit the current
behaviours and attitudes, whatever the country's past
leaders did and fought for will come to nought", he said.
Bishop Konadu was preaching at the 29th memorial and
thanksgiving service for the late Dr Kofi Abrefa Busia,
Prime Minister of the Second Republic, at his residency at
Wenchi.
The Centre for African Art and Civilization, an NGO,
organised the ceremony with support from Wenchi Methodist
Church, the district assembly and the Busia Foundation.
"We are not poor because we have almost all natural
resources with which we can develop our nation to an
appreciable level", the Bishop said and urged all to abide
by ethics and to have a sense of responsibility.
He condemned the current disrespect for laws, immoral
behaviours, dishonesty and disrespect for others' rights,
which he said, had largely attributed to the nation's
current slow pace in development.
"Let us be God-fearing, be selfless and sacrifice for the
nation's accelerated development like Dr Busia and others
did so that our children can also pick such traits and grow
up to become responsible leaders", Bishop Konadu said.
Hajia Bintu Ibrahim Farizana, Wenchi District Chief
Executive, expressed gratitude for the honour done to "one
of the country's champions of democracy" and urged all to
emulate the exploits of the country's past heroes.
She said the district assembly had decided to sponsor
students in second cycle schools to undertake excursions to
tourist centres including the residence of Dr Busia to learn
more about the country and its past.
She said the assembly would rehabilitate the former
Premier's residence to become a tourist site and more
structures would be added to make the premises to befit his
status in Ghana's political history.
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