Ghana President Akufo-Addo Takes Cue From Buhari, Delivers Plagiarized Inaugural Speech
Ghanaian President, Nana Akufo-Addo delivers inaugural speech[/caption]
Newly elected Ghanaian President, Nana Akufo-Addo, has been caught in plagiarism scandal after the 72-year old lifted long verbatim extracts from the 1993 and 2001 inaugural speeches of Presidents Bill Clinton and George Bush of the United States, respectively.
Mr Akufo-Addo, who was sworn in alongside his Vice, Mahamudu Bawumia on Saturday, began his tenure as the 5th President of Ghana’s 4th Republic on a rather embarrassing note.
The newly elected President first lifted a portion of Mr. Bush’s January 20, 2001 speech where he said: “I ask you to be citizens: citizens, not spectators; citizens, not subjects; responsible citizens building communities of service and a nation of character.”
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“I ask you to be citizens: citizens, not spectators; citizens, not subjects; responsible citizens building communities of service and a nation of character,” Akufo-Addo on Saturday.
He went further to lift several lines from Clinton’s speech delivered on January, 20, 1993.
“Though our challenges are fearsome, so are our strengths. Americans have ever been a restless, questing, hopeful people. And we must bring to our task today the vision and will of those who came before us.
Akufo-Addo, however, carefully twisted Clinton’s speech to say: “Though our challenges are fearsome, so are our strengths. Ghanaians have ever been a restless, questing, hopeful people. And we must bring to our task today the vision and will of those who came before us.”
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THE WHISTLER recalls that President Muhammadu Buhari had similarly plagiarized President Barack Obama’s 2008 speech at the launch of his “change begins with me” campaign in 2016.
