The novel President of Ghana, Mr. Nana Ado Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has apologised for plagiarizing portions of the first speech.
The novel president delivered the vocalism communication on Sabbatum at his investiture ceremony at the Black Stars Square inward Accra.
The unfortunate tidings nigh the plagiarised portions of the vocalism communication went viral on social media presently subsequently Nana Addo had finished delivering his address.
He was defendant of plagiarizing U.S.A. onetime President George Walker Bush’s 2001 every bit good every bit percentage of onetime President Bill Clinton’s first speeches.
Some radio stations inward a bid to cheque the authenticity of the allegation played both speeches too compared it to that of President Nana Akufo Addo too it was realized that plagiarism could non hold upwards ruled out.
However, Mr Eugene Arhin, inward a contestation released Sabbatum evening, indicated that the lack of attribution was a consummate oversight.
According to APA, the spokesman said: “My attending has been drawn to references existence made to a contestation inward the vocalism communication delivered past times the President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, at his swearing inward on Saturday, Jan 7, 2017, which was non duly acknowledged”.
The province of affairs has caused non bad embarrassment to the novel ruling New Patriotic government.
Ghana’s novel president, kicked off an embarrassing plagiarism scandal, simply minutes subsequently he was sworn in.
Part of his first speech, where he promised honesty of utilization too reduced taxation, with other things, was flora to possess got been lifted from the 1993 first vocalism communication of onetime U.S.A. President Bill Clinton.
He was too caught cherry-red handed inward lifting a percentage of the vocalism communication past times simply about other U.S.A. president John F. Kennedy made inward 1961.
On 20th January, 1961 President J. F. Kennedy during his first address said, “if a gratuitous guild cannot aid the many who are poor, it can’t relieve the few who are rich”.
Akufo-Addo inward his first vocalism communication said the same affair on Saturday.
The vocalism communication writers of the novel Ghanaian president seem to hold upwards inward dear with the rhetorics of American leaders every bit they too lifted Former President George Bush.
According to Ghanaweb.Com, President Akufo-Addo urged citizens to hold upwards active partakers inward the running of the country. But checks past times the online tidings platform showed that it came from George Bush’s 2001 inaugural. Bush too hence told Americans:
“I inquire you lot to hold upwards citizens: citizens, non spectators; citizens, non subjects; responsible citizens edifice your communities too our nation. Let us operate until the operate is done,” he said
