{"id":285948,"date":"2017-01-18T12:02:33","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T12:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=285948"},"modified":"2017-01-18T12:02:33","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T12:02:33","slug":"akufo-addo-not-guilty-of-plagiarism-obiri-boahen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/01\/akufo-addo-not-guilty-of-plagiarism-obiri-boahen\/","title":{"rendered":"Akufo-Addo not guilty of plagiarism – Obiri Boahen"},"content":{"rendered":"
The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has justified the inaugural speech read by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, which had some paragraphs copied from speeches of former presidents of the United States of America.<\/p>\n
Addressing a press conference in Accra on Wednesday, the Deputy General Secretary of the NPP, Nana Obiri Boahen, argued that President Akufo-Addo cannot be held for academic fraud because the original source of the quote is unknown.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe NDC and their apologists refer to portions of Nana Akufo-Addo\u2019s inaugural speech and described his conduct as \u2018intellectual dishonesty and academic fraud.\u2019 The question to ask is who is the original source of the words used by President Akufo-Addo? Certainly not [former] president Bush. Those words were used by President Wildrow Wilson. Since that high profile submission by President Wildrow Wilson, 13 US presidents have used those same words in their inaugural addresses so who has used whose words?\u201d<\/p>\n