Ghana has apologized for plagiarizing a photo of a Kenyan
high-rise building used as the cover of government’s ‘Ghana Beyond Aid’
strategy document launched by President Nana Akufo-Addo on May 1.
The use of the photo of Dawit Insurance Agency Limited headquarters in Nairobi
as the cover page of the strategy document triggered criticism against the
government, with some describing the act as embarrassing.
Critics were shocked by how government officials led President Nana Addo Dankwa
AKufo-Addo to show off the document with the plagiarised photo on a national
event televised live on television.
“As if the issue of the President plagiarizing people’s speeches wasn’t bad
enough, they have once again photoshopped a skyline from Nairobi and that’s
what you see when you open the Ghana Beyond Aid document,” MP Kumbungu Ras
Mubarak told Starr FM.
He could not fathom why persons behind the document turned a blind eye to
Accra’s skyline and even more exciting ones in developed country’s to choose
Kenya’s skyline.
Government officials were said to initially downplayed the issue and asked
Ghanaians to rather focus attention on the content of the document that seeks
to guide Ghana towards an irreversible pathway of progress and prosperity.
But a day after the issue emerged, the committee in charge of the Ghana Beyond
Aid has issued a statement to apologise to the President and Ghanaians and
taken full responsibility for what it termed as error.
“The Committee apologises unreservedly to the President and the nation for this
error,” the statement signed by Secretary to the Committee, Dr Eric Yeboah
said.
Source: Ghanaweb.com
