Ghanaians over exaggerating Ghana Beyond Aid gaffe - Irbard Ibrahim

Executive Director of Irbard Security Consult, Mr. Irbard Ibrahim has observed that the Ghana Beyond Aid gaffe in which an image of Dawit insurance building in Nairobi was stolen for the back cover of the document is being over exaggerated by Ghanaians.

A section of Ghanaians have taken on the 20-member committee led by Senior Minister, Yaw Osarfo-Maafo for failing to do due diligence before making the document public which was subsequently launched by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.

But Irbad Ibrahim believes this is a pardonable error and that some Ghanaians are trying to make a mountain out of a molehill explaining that a serious nation demands results rather than designs.

“Show me a man who has never made a mistake in writing before. Show me a man who has never forgotten to dot an ‘i’ or cross a’t’. Why are we pretending to be a nation of flawless angels just to score cheap political points?

Both the NDC and the NPP are culprits in this. We forget substance and latch on to trivialities. The NPP while in opposition took the government of the day to the cleaners over the design of common diaries or a brochure that made Uhuru Kenyatta Ghana’s president in 2016.

Fast-track forward to this moment, the NDC in opposition has made this government a butt of all jokes over a mere picture”, he said in statement posted on his Facebook page.

He stressed “let’s all learn to grow into patriots and nationalists who look at the bigger picture rather than reduce the enormity of governance to a Tom and Jerry game of mutual sabotage.

Permit me to ask, if the design had featured a skyscraper in Accra and nothing was achieved at the end of the day, what would have been the essence of the design in the first place.

Go to Rwanda and Tanzania and take a sneak peak. Serious nations don’t reduce government business to designs and soundbites the way we do all the time in this country.

I would rather a government agency that gave out not even pencil sketches and delivered rather than one that has glossy parchments everywhere with no iota of substance”