The supervisor of Nana Akufo-Addo\u2019s inauguration speech must be sacked for embarrassing the President and dragging the name of the country into disrepute, an academician has said.<\/p>\n
Professor Cletus Dordornu in an interview on the Citi Breakfast Show<\/strong> said the allegation of plagiarism against Akufo-Addo is saddening.<\/p>\n [contextly_sidebar id=”pNJyI0D10AJDdOAAORwaugmRCxUIRf9U”]\u201cThe issue about plagiarism has always been there. It was saddening. I would want to blame the President, but whoever supervised the writing of the speech should have made reference to theses people.\u201d<\/p>\n President Akufo-Addo has come under pressure to fire some members of his communication team for supervising the writing of his inaugural speech that had portions of it lifted from a speech delivered by former President of the US, George Bush, but failed to credit them.<\/p>\n After the heavy criticisms over the weekend, the international media also fed on the news, a situation analysts say has brought shame\u00a0to the President and the country.<\/p>\n While the Director of Communications\u00a0at the Presidency, Eugene Arhin in a Facebook post apologized for the incident, Economist, Professor Cletus Dordornu says the supervisors of the speech must be fired.<\/p>\n \u201cI know many cases where because of plagiarism, PhD thesis\u00a0were rejected. Because of plagiarism, a lot of shame has been brought to people. It would have been wonderful if those lines were acknowledged, it would have enriched the presentation. Generally, I remember from 1790 when the issues were taken very seriously, the Presidents removed their speech writers because it is like casting a slur on the President.\u201d<\/p>\n Although the inauguration ceremony was characterized\u00a0by many high points including the spirit of friendliness demonstrated among all former Presidents, and President Akufo-Addo reiterating his resolve to lead Ghana into a period of economic transformation and progress, the allegation of plagiarism appeared to have taken the shine out of the event, dominating discussions in various media spaces locally and abroad.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Jonas Nyabor\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana
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