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Video shows Ghana’s new president Akufo Addo in plagiarism scandal
It’s not the best of times for Ghana’s new President, Nana Akufo-Addo. He’s currently the butt of jokes across social media in Africa following a plagiarism scandal that has plagued his inaugural speech. Part of his inaugural speech on January 7, 2017 was found to have been lifted from a 1993 speech by President Bill Clinton of the United States.
Parts of the speech also seem to have been lifted from a speech by another US president John F. Kennedy made in 1961.
On January 20, 1961 President J. F. Kennedy during his inaugural address said, “if a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it can’t save the few who are rich”.
Akufo-Addo in his inaugural speech said the same thing on Saturday. Watch below… embed code….
Ghanaian music producer, sound engineer and guitarist George Forest who is popularly known for producing some of the Ghana’s gospel hits was finally laid to rest on Thursday Nov. 4th at the Tafo Ahenebronum Community Center. George who died on the 30th of August after a short illness was buried in a music keyboard casket.
The Electoral Commission of Ghana (EC) has disqualified thirteen presidential candidates from contesting this year’s elections, while only qualified four candidates.
EC Chairman, Charlotte Osei, on Tuesday in Accra named the qualified candidates as John Mahama of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC), Nana Akufo-Addo of the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Ivor Greenstreet of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), and Jacob Osei-Yeboah, an independent candidate.
She said that the nominees have been excluded from the 2016 race as presidential candidates for violating various aspects of the electoral laws of Ghana. Osei added that the reasons include fraudulent signatures, absence of required number of signatures, and improper filling of nomination forms.
She added that some of the fraudulent information provided by the nominees would be followed up by the police for possible arrest and prosecution.
Ghana goes to the polls on Dec. 7 to elect a president and 275 Members of Parliament.
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