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Ghana marks 66th Independence Day celebration today

By Vincent Ashitey
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Ghana is celebrating her 66th Independence Day today, March 6, 2023.

National parade for the celebration will be held at the Ho Youth Resource Centre (located at Adaklu Tsrefe).

This year’s event is on the theme: “Our Unity, Our Strength, Our Purpose”.

President Umaro Sissoco Embaló of Guinea Bissau, who is also the Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), is the Special Guest of Honour.

More than 5,000 people from across the country, including members of the diplomatic corps, the clergy, traditional rulers and other dignitaries are in the Municipality to participate in the event.

In 2017, President Akufo Addo decided the independence celebration be held on rotational basis to open the regions to the world to boost the local economy.

This is the first time that the Volta Region is hosting the national independence parade, which commemorates the Day Ghana formally weaned itself from British colonial rule.

Last year the Independence Day parade was held in the Eastern Region.