Let’s sustain ‘Reset’ edition of Indece Day celebration

Dear Editor,

I write to congratulate the government and the security services for the impres­sive organisation of this year’s Indepen­dence Day celebration.

The 68th edition of the event is what I call the ‘Reset’ edition due to the ma­jor cut it suffered regarding the mas­sive reduction in terms of resources and personnel in a bid to control government expenditure.

That notwithstanding, it proved to be outstanding as the few selected forces and school children lived up to the occa­sion.

At least we were spared of the long session of March past by several school contingents, only for the security services to replicate the entire exercise.

In the end, it leaves a lot of people – school children, service men and wom­en and even audience so exhausted and fatigued.

For the school children, they are lucky to get the following day as a holiday but others would continue with work.

I want to suggest that in order to save cost and reduce this exhaustion, we adopt the reduced or reset edition style except for major milestones like Golden Jubilee (which we have gone past), Diamond Jubi­lee, Centenary celebration and so forth.

Additionally, the regional celebrations should be sustained or perhaps reviewed as it becomes worrying sometimes seeing the children kept in the scorching sun for hours.

As the occasion coincides with the Heritage Month celebration, schools can be empowered by the Ghana Education Service (GES) to partner organisation with particular expertise of interest to organ­ise educative programmes for the school children.

Other activities like the Armed Forces Open Day should also be sustained while the other security agencies like the Police, Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) Ghana Prisons Service (GPS) Customs, now GRA must be encouraged to embrace the idea.

That would widen the scope of choices for the participants.

It was also gratifying watching the living past presidents, J.A Kufour and Nana Akufo-Addo shared the same podium on such a historic day.

Prince Amartey,

Dodowa