Dr Nyaho-Tamakloe credits Mahama government with genuine national cohesion efforts

A founding member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr Nyaho Nyaho‑Tamakloe, has said the Mahama administration is making efforts to bring Ghanaians together, after years of political and social divisions.

Dr Nyaho-Tamakloe, reflecting on how 'Kwame Nkrumah's unity' has often been undermined since the second republic, stressed that successive governments struggled to foster cohesion.

However, he noted that this trend continued until recently, when the Mahama government began initiatives aimed at strengthening national identity.

Speaking in an exclusive interview with GhanaWeb, he said, “Now why should there be a split in the second republic, and then after that it continued. I would dare say that it continued until recently, that we have another government, who I think is making the effort to bring Ghanaians together as one.”

He also said that leadership is central to building unity, insisting that leaders who truly value cohesion will pursue it.

“A leader who really has interest in something will definitely pursue it.”

In the same interview, Dr Nyaho Nyaho-Tamakloe shared how Ghana’s first president, Dr Kwame Nkrumah, deliberately fostered national unity in Ghana that brought together young people from across the country, irrespective of their region or tribe.

According to him, Nkrumah built schools that brought together young people from across the country, north, south, east, west, and the middle belt to grow up as Ghanaians first, rather than members of individual tribes.

“Only Nkrumah was able to bring Ghanaians together irrespective of where the person came from. They built schools, and one interesting thing he did was that people from either the north, west, east, south, or even the mid belt were always brought together as Ghanaians into some of these schools,” he said.

Watch his remarks in the video below:



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