Bloody June 4 is dead and buried; Let it remain in its grave – Angry KT Hammond

Some Members of Parliament of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) have launched a subtle campaign against the celebration of the June 4 Revolution.

According to them, the 1979 event is an aberration in the country’s history because of the blood, pain and deaths it lefts in its wake and argued observing the day every year will not totally heal wounds.

The Member of Parliament for Adansi Asokwa who spoke to the media on Wednesday 9^th June 2021 in Parliament in response to some statements that were made on the June 4 platform last Friday noted that the so-called ideals of June died a long time ago.

A peeved K.T. Hammond called for a ‘final funeral rite’ for the June 4 Uprising stressing the incident now belongs to the land of the dead.

“Whatever June 4 was, it is dead and buried. Let it remain dead and buried in its grave.”

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“Let’s forget about it and move forward. Enough of the 4^th June foolishness,” he stated.

He stated that the architects of the 1979 revolution forgot about the purpose of the event and rather turned on each other in search of self-aggrandizement.

The events of the day, he said, would be remembered today for only one thing and that is the fact it devoured all its participants.

He said, “The architects of June 4 engulfed themselves in a battle to the end and  ‘one of them departed the earth recently’ but the other one is still aggrieved.”

“Talk about a revolution eating its own children. I mean it ate all its children and up till today they keep on talking about who was in charge.”

“It was not so much about what they did for the country but who was in charge.”

According to Mr. Hammond, Ghanaians are fed up with what he described as the June 4 foolishness.

He argued there had been a National Reconciliation Commission  (NRC) to reconcile the nation and indicated it is time to move forward.

The MP stated that the celebration of this revolution every year is practically testing the patience of many Ghanaians who experienced immeasurable suffering and losses on 4^th June 1979.

According to him, what angered him about the recent celebration are statements people made to the effect that conditions in Ghana today are ripe for another June 4.

“It was said out there and essentially what do you think they are calling for,” he queried?

“I am telling them to stop disturbing the peace of the country with the 4^th June crap because whatever the day symbolizes is gone and buried.”

“It didn’t really achieve anything for the good of this country. It rather divided this country with the wanton bloodshed.”

“Go and read the book ‘Death and pain’ of this journalist who fled the country to London during that time.”

“Those of you who are young and don’t have a clue about what happened get a copy and read about what happened in Ghana on June 4,” he urged.

The MP argued that if the younger generation read and learn about the June 4 revolution they will be sympathetic to the grievances of those opposed to the celebration of the day.

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