The statue is the place where Ghana's First President Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah was attacked on 1 August 1962". The statue is on the exact point where the bomb attack happened.
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The Kulungugu bomb attack was a failed assassination attempt on Kwame Nkrumah, the President of Ghana.
On 1 August 1962, Kwame Nkrumah stopped in Kulungugu, a minor port of entry in the Pusiga District in Upper East Bawku.[1][2][3] There was a bomb explosion aimed at killing the President.
^Dogbevi, Emmanuel (2017-02-04). "Dr Nkrumah's bombing site neglected". Ghana Business News. Retrieved 2020-08-11.
^Agency, United States Central Intelligence (1965). Daily Report, Foreign Radio Broadcasts.
^"Portrait of Nkrumah as Dictator". The New York Times. 1964-05-03. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-08-11.
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