It’s worthless to mark Ghana’s 59th anniversary – Ambolley

Ghanaian Highlife legend Gyedu Blay Ambolley says marking 59 years of Ghana’s Independence is worthless since there is nothing meaningful to celebrate.

According to the multi-talented and internationally celebrated musician popularly known as "Simigwa Do Man", Ghana must use the opportunity to reflect on what it has achieved and why the country still finds itself in crisis.

“If we want to celebrate it, then we need something to celebrate about, it mustn’t be that we had independence and the time is up and we just repeatedly do the same thing over and over, we need to have something to let the children know what is coming and what was there before,” Ambolley told Nii Arday Clegg, host of Morning Starr Thursday.

The ‘Adwoa Amissa’ hitmaker added: “I don’t think that we need to celebrate it. I think that we really need to sit down and analyse why we are in this kind of predicament so that we can be able to put the broken things together and move forward together.

“The way we do it, it is like two children and everyone saying I can do it better than you, your time you did this and I can do this, but if we want to build a country it must be all hands on deck and if it doesn’t happen that way then our children will suffer.”

Ghana turns 59 on Sunday after the West African nation won independence from the British rule on March 6, 1957.