{"id":408145,"date":"2018-03-09T14:47:37","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T14:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=408145"},"modified":"2018-03-09T14:55:44","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T14:55:44","slug":"if-you-dont-want-aid-reject-microsofts-donation-amissah-arthur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2018\/03\/if-you-dont-want-aid-reject-microsofts-donation-amissah-arthur\/","title":{"rendered":"If you don’t want ‘Aid’, reject Microsoft’s donation \u2013 Amissah-Arthur"},"content":{"rendered":"
A former Vice President, Kwesi Amissah-Arthur, has suggested that the government rejects Microsoft’s assistance to a Ghanaian pupil teacher who recently went viral on social media for drawing the entire Microsoft Word window on a blackboard for his students because there was no computer for him to demonstrate to them.<\/p>\n
According to Amissah-Arthur, the government must learn to weigh various forms of assistance and intervention, and reject those that are \u201ctoo small that we are able to do ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”ebjmt2GqnUN84kmDGZbFGm3VvOoj3AZD”]Speaking in a Citi News<\/strong> interview, the economist and former Bank of Ghana Governor indicated that the New Patriotic Party government\u2019s \u2018Ghana Beyond Aid\u2019 agenda is ambiguous <\/a><\/strong>and fails to indicate what exactly it means for the country\u2019s development.<\/p>\n \u201cGhana Beyond Aid, but we are accepting a Microsoft computer\u2026. So when is aid not aid?\u201d he quizzed.<\/p>\n 33-year-old Richard Appiah Akoto, an ICT pupil teacher at Betenase M\/A Junior High School at Sekyedomase in the Ashanti Region, went viral on social media last month after he posted photos of himself improvising by drawing the entire Microsoft Word window on a blackboard to enable his pupil to understand how the software functions.<\/p>\n