Story: George Ernest Asare, Kumasi
A SCULPTOR, Mr James Boakye, has donated two separate busts of the First President of Ghana, the late Osagyefuo Dr Kwame Nkrumah and President John Agyekum Kufuor, to the Ghana Museums and Monuments Board at a short ceremony at Ntensere, near Kumasi.
According to Mr Boakye, who is physically challenged, the donation was his personal contribution towards the 50th anniversary celebration of Ghana’s independence.
The acting Ashanti Regional Director of the Museums and Monuments Board, Mr S.F. Dadzie, received the bursts on behalf of the Minister for Chieftaincy and Culture.
Briefing the Daily Graphic, Mr Boakye who is an employee of the Centre for National Culture (CNC) in Kumasi said he was motivated by the visit of the sector Minister, Mr Sampson Kwaku Boafo, to the CNC in January this year to make a personal contribution towards the region’s celebration of Ghana @50.
He stated that apart from the two busts, he had also made that of the late Dr Kofi Abrefa Busia, the country’s Prime Minister in the Second Republic, the late Tafawa Balawa, a former Nigerian President, and the Omanhene of the Offinso Traditional Area, Nana Wiafi Akenten III.
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