Social Commentator and Financial Analyst, Sydney Casley Hayford, has likened the error – ridden brochures used for Ghana’s 59th Independence Day celebration to a piece written by a daft Junior High School (JHS) or Senior High School student (SHS) who always comes last in class.
[contextly_sidebar id=”Olyd14pCs8EalDxSYtS0Q6GpC4OiHd5D”]Ghana has been ridiculed both locally and internationally, after the 59th Independence Day celebration brochures, published factual, historical and grammatical errors about the country and even labelled Kenya’s Uhuru Kenyata as President of Ghana.
Speaking on Citi FM’s news analysis programme, The Big Issue, Casley Hayford said due diligence was not done in approving the brochures for the national event.
“…It was the body of the text…the words that had been chosen were so bad and it read as if it was some poem that had been written by some JHS or SHS graduate; one of the students who carries the class because this was not written by one of the people who comes at the top. This was written by someone at the bottom. It was like someone was trying to do that person a favour by giving them some kind of exposure to do this.”
He believes the development was just an attempt by someone to siphon state funds.
“I’m not buying a conspiracy theory. This was just an attempt by someone to steal money.”
How was the contract awarded?
Casley Hayford also asked government to disclose who the contract was awarded to and how much was involved.
“A committee was set up to manage this whole thing and even now as we sit, nobody even has a list of all the committee members…We know that Francis Arthur was there, we know Stan Dogbe was there, we know Stephen Obimpeh was there.. Who the others are, we don’t know. So at least between these three persons, somebody should be able to tell us the rest of the committee members who were part of the whole programme and the company to which the contract was given to…That’s all we need to know.”
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By: Marian Ansah/citifmonline.com/Ghana
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