The Management of the Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park (KNMP) has expressed full support for calls to rename Kotoka International Airport after Ghana’s first president, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah.
In a statement signed by Dr Collins Rawlings Nunyameh, Acting Executive Director, and released on January 21, 2026, the management of the Park stated that it had taken note of the recent call by a coalition of concerned citizens for the renaming of Ghana’s principal international gateway in honour of Dr Nkrumah.
The statement said the national airport, as Ghana’s main international gateway, ought to reflect the country’s highest ideals, values and historical foundations, stressing that Dr. Nkrumah’s role in Ghana’s independence, statehood and Pan-African unity made him the most fitting symbol to welcome the world to the country.
“Renaming the national airport is not a symbolic gesture; it is a moral reckoning,” the statement said, adding that national honours must reflect “truth, justice and our collective identity.”
The Park noted that while Dr. Nkrumah laid the foundations necessary for Ghana’s statehood, the country’s only international airport continued to honour a figure associated with his overthrow, describing the situation as a contradiction that “sends a dangerous signal and normalises betrayal, subversion and moral bankruptcy.”
“This must no longer be allowed to stand,” the statement stressed.
The Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park, therefore, reiterated its support for the renaming of what it described as the “so-called Kotoka International Airport” after Ghana’s founder and the African Man of the Millennium, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah.
Source:Fiilafmonline/CitiNews
