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The Vice-President of Columbia, Francia Elena Márquez Mina, has paid a visit to the Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park and Museum in Accra to pay homage to the country’s founding President, Dr Kwame Nkrumah.
The Vice-President of Columbia, Francia Elena Márquez Mina, has paid a visit to the Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park and Museum in Accra to pay homage to the country’s founding President, Dr Kwame Nkrumah.
Accompanied by her delegation, the Vice-President laid a wreath on the statue of Dr Nkrumah and observed a moment of silence in honour of his lasting contributions to freedom, unity and social justice.
The delegation was welcomed by the Head of Museum, Eugenia Ivy Quartey, who also led them on a guided tour of the site.
The park, designed by Don Arthur, is the iconic final resting place of Ghana’s first President and his wife, Fathia Nkrumah.
The Colombian Vice-President was also accompanied by the Deputy Minister of Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts, Yussif Issaka Jajah, and other government officials.
The visit formed part of the Vice-President’s three-day official visit to Ghana.
It also marked a moment of deep historical reflection and a renewed commitment to bilateral friendship between the two nations.
She will also meet with the executive of Fidelity Bank Ghana and call on the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, before departing later today.
Ms Quartey led the delegation to the bronze statue of Dr Nkrumah, which is mounted at the exact spot where he stood to declare the country’s independence from British colonial rule on March 6,1957.
The delegation then proceeded to the catafalque at the centre of the park, where the remains of Dr Nkrumah and his wife, Fathia, are interred.
Vice-President Mina laid another wreath on the tomb of Dr Nkrumah to honour his legacy as a pioneering figure in Ghana’s independence struggle and the broader African liberation movement.
The Vice-President concluded her tour at the VVIP Lounge, where she signed the Visitors’ Book.
Vice-President Mina arrived in the country last Wednesday, leading a business delegation on an official visit, marking her second visit since she took office, and signalling a deepening partnership between the two nations.
She held bilateral discussions with the Vice-President, Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, during which the two countries hailed their relationship as a model of effective South-South cooperation and a collaboration between developing countries that bypass traditional North-South development frameworks.
The meeting of the two Vice-Presidents concluded with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between Colombia’s Diplomatic Academy and Ghana’s Foreign Service Institute, formalising academic cooperation and institutional exchanges between the two countries’ diplomatic training bodies.
