{"id":198393,"date":"2016-03-13T06:10:02","date_gmt":"2016-03-13T06:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=198393"},"modified":"2016-03-13T06:10:02","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T06:10:02","slug":"error-ridden-brochures-resemble-work-of-daft-jhs-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=198393","title":{"rendered":"Error-ridden brochures resemble work of daft JHS student"},"content":{"rendered":"

Social Commentator and Financial Analyst, Sydney Casley Hayford, has likened the error – ridden brochures used for Ghana\u2019s 59th<\/sup> Independence Day celebration to a piece written by a daft Junior High School (JHS) or Senior High School student (SHS)\u00a0who always comes last in\u00a0class.<\/p>\n

[contextly_sidebar id=”Olyd14pCs8EalDxSYtS0Q6GpC4OiHd5D”]Ghana has been ridiculed both locally and internationally, after the \u00a059th<\/sup> Independence Day celebration brochures, published factual, historical and grammatical errors about the country and even labelled Kenya’s Uhuru Kenyata as President of Ghana.<\/p>\n

Speaking on Citi FM\u2019s<\/strong> news analysis programme, The Big Issue<\/strong>, Casley Hayford said due diligence was not done in approving the brochures for the national \u00a0event.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026It was the body of the text\u2026the 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. \u00a0It was like someone was trying to do that person a favour by giving them some kind of exposure to do this.\u201d<\/p>\n

He believes the development was just an attempt by someone to siphon state funds.<\/p>\n

\u201cI’m not buying a conspiracy theory. This was just an attempt by someone to steal money.\u201d<\/p>\n

How was the contract awarded?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Casley Hayford also asked government to disclose who the contract was awarded to and how much was involved.<\/p>\n

\u201cA 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\u2026We know that Francis Arthur was there, we know Stan Dogbe was there, we know Stephen Obimpeh was there.. Who the others are, we don\u2019t know. So\u00a0at 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 \u00a0the contract was given to\u2026That\u2019s all we need to know.\u201d<\/p>\n

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By: Marian Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana
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