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Nana Akufo-Addo caught up in plagiarism row: An Aljazeera report

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  • JR: 7 years ago

    MYX STOMACH

  • GHANA: 7 years ago

    JUST SCHOLAR LIKE OTHERS

  • GHANA IS RICH 7 years ago

    "State coffers are not the spoils for victorious political parties. I promise to protect the public purse". *** President Addo Danquah Akuffo Addo***

  • True Talk 7 years ago

    Instead of the Western press shouting out loud about the success of our democracy, they are focusing on plagiarism. Let's stop this nonsense and support the new President in his endeavour to fix Ghana.

  • True Talk 7 years ago

    There are citizens in other parts of Africa praying for the day they will see an incumbent lose an election and hand over to the opposition. Here in Ghana we are fussing over plagiarism.

  • $AINT GHFUO, BLACK EXCELLENCE! 7 years ago

    HE WONT BE THE FIRST NATIONAL LEADER TO PLAGIARIZE A SPEECH. DID FMR PRIME MINISTER STEPHEN HARPER OF CANADA NOT PLAGIARIZE IN PARLIAMENT?

  • Zoobie-Zoobie 7 years ago

    is that simple

  • Zoobie-Zoobie 7 years ago

    or the same incompetence

  • Zoobie-Zoobie 7 years ago

    action now to avoid damaging the Ghana brand

  • kyekyeku 7 years ago

    Mahama is stealing the vice presidents residents as his retirement home after stealing all the money in Ghana for himself and his family. that's what matters and not who used whose words in their speech, absolutely nonsense

  • KOFFIE 7 years ago

    AFTER ALL THE STEALING, ARROGANCE AND MESSING UP THE ECONOMY FOR THE PAST 8 YEARS, GHANAIANS HAVE FINALLY SHOWN YOU THE EXIT. BUT IT LOOKS AS IF AFTER 1 MONTH YOU HAVE STILL NOT COME TO YOUR SENSES. INSTEAD OF SHOWING REMORSE ...
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  • GHANA: 7 years ago

    GHANAIANS REALLY BE MUUMUS; ARFTER THIS MISTAKE WE DID YOU OPEN YOUR EYES AND FALL INSIDE

  • BECCA 7 years ago

    akufo must resign now
    the dead hyena akufo Addo! i don't even know what people see in this man! a common speech too you have to steal it from Americans that you claim that are not good for our development. in Ghana we have s ...
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  • EDUARDO DOMINGO 7 years ago

    PLEASE LET THE GUY GET TO WORK AND STOP COPYING STUPID CUSTOMS , WHICH IS NOT SUPPORTED BY THE NATURE OF MAN !!!

  • KOJO LEE 7 years ago

    THIS WAS ABSOLUTE STUPIDITY AND FOOLISHNEESS ON NANA ADDO'S PART AND THERE IS NO AMOUNT OF EXCUSE THAT CAN EXONERATE HIM HERE. IT WAS COMPLETELY UNNECESSARY. TO PUT IT BLUNTLY, THIS IS STEALING, LAZINESS, LACK OF INNOVATIVENE ...
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  • toby 7 years ago

    You are damn right. No excuses at all. So this is the so called competent government Ghanaians voted for. Yes stealing is teaming open one

  • Clem 7 years ago

    These are the thoughts of other people being read to Ghanaians. What is Nana Addo's own heartfelt message to Ghanaians? Still deceiving us?

    We are watching and waiting>

  • Metez 7 years ago

    Hahahahahaha plagiarism prez, do you think is easy to call someone incompetence, copy copy president.

  • KOJO LEE 7 years ago

    I HAVE BEEN NANA'S FAN THROUGHOUT THE CAMPAIGN UP UNTIL NOW. NO AMOUNT OF SPIN (INCLUDING THE 70 YEARS NONSENSE) CAN EXONERATE HIM. THIS IS SHEER STUPIDITY, FOOLISHNESS AND IDIOCY ON HIS PART. IT IS LACK OF INNOVATIVENESS, L ...
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  • Kweku 7 years ago

    YOU ARE A VERY BIG LIAR KOJO, YOU ARE IN NO WAY NANA'S FAN, IF YOU CLAIM THE 70 YEARS INTELLECTUAL LAW IS NONSENSE, THEN INDEED THE SHEER STUPIDITY, IDIOCY AND INFACT OPEN BRAINLESS INTELLECTUAL FOOLISHNESS LIES IN YOUR COURT ...
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  • Issifu 7 years ago

    If the speech by Bush/Wilson was over 70 years what about that of President Clinton which is only 23 years? You see how the law of Kharma works.Nana has been caught in the net stealing from the speeches of 2 American presiden ...
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  • KOFFIE 7 years ago

    WHATEVER YOU CALL YOURSELF, IT'S TIME YOU UNDERSTAND THAT GHANAIANS HAVE COME PAST THIS CHILDISH TRICKS OF NDC. FOR HOW LONG HAVE KNOWN THE COMPETENT PRESIDENT GHANA HAS NOW? YOU DON'T KNOW HIM ANYWHERE. YOU ARE A BIG LIAR AN ...
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  • wiseman 7 years ago

    nonsense if Rawlings could.rule Ghana with I level certificate then what about.nana? most of this people in this platform critizes the speech.of nama are second class Ewe and Gas. no real Ghanaian will critize.what nana sa ...
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  • kwami 7 years ago

    Note the author of the speech is Woodrow Wilson who died 03/1924.We all copy from each other so what is the big deal about this noise.

  • Zoobie-Zoobie 7 years ago

    What does it mean to be a Ghanaian?

  • Abdulai Mahamadu 7 years ago

    How can you copy from the very people you claimed are incompetent without giving credit to the source of the words you have copied, coconut headed people claiming to be competent.

  • KOFFIE 7 years ago

    WHO CARES WHETHER NANA'S SPEECH WAS COPIED OR NOT. THE WISE GHANAIANS UNDERSTOOD THE WISDOM IN IT AND MADE MEANING OUT IT. IF YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND GO TO TOGO

  • kweku trouble 7 years ago

    You mean it's okay to steal from dead. You could easily loot graves.

  • Abdulai Mahamadu 7 years ago

    I said before Nana Akufo Ad do came.If the so-called competent is coping from someone they claim is rather incompetent, then Ghana started failing the very day this coconut headed president was inaugurated.

  • KOFFIE 7 years ago

    COPYING OR COPING. YOU NEED A LOT OF EDUCATION WAI. YOU ARE RATHER BLOCK-HEADED.

  • MATTALLY 7 years ago

    Hahaa....u see something wrong about spelling mistake but u don't see any thing wrong with ur president plagiarisng other prez's speech.

  • Chichis 7 years ago

    U can go and sanction him if u want. What crime has he offended. Tell us which article that talks against that. For all u know NPP is in power now so take it or leave Ghana if u can't stay.

  • RAZAK 7 years ago

    Ooh, Really ALL DIE BE DIE!!!

  • TRUTH AND WISDOM 7 years ago

    This is from another platform :

    Copyright laws allow people to use other persons work 50-100 years after their death without quoting them.
    The statement was first used by Woodrow Wilson who died over 70years now.
    Bush ...
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  • Teahiabuah 7 years ago

    Leave Nana alone. Who on earth does not use some one's word, phrase, language in expressing him/herself. Who first used the word 'Dad' or mummy' to address relations? But you use same words too. Are you not plagiarist?

  • MATTALLY 7 years ago

    SO if ordinary men and women plagiarise, ur president who is addressed as His Excellency should also join de band wagon? Do u know why he,s addressed as His Excellency? COME OON!

  • Big Joe 7 years ago

    This is very sad ???? that a president with different vision and promises can only quote people's ideas and speeches? Hmmmm is easier said than done ooo!! This just the beginning oooo!!!!

  • Master 7 years ago

    When you see a big head crashing nuts with his head dont think it is easy.NPP have u seen?

  • Busia 7 years ago

    Why didn't Nana just his own speech?
    So he enjoyed copy copy. Lol. Copyright?
    Next time just write your own simple. Let the world know you are capable of writing too. Do not copy the white man speech. Let the world know the ...
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  • Yaw k 7 years ago

    Did the president qouted Osama bin laden? give me a break and let's get to work after all, George Bush highway is our in Ghana standard.Let's talk about the important issues facing the mother like education, enveroment, sewag ...
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  • MATTALLY 7 years ago

    I wish important issues were concentrated upon in the previous governmnt too. What goes around comes around

  • Franc?s 7 years ago

    SO WHAT????????????

  • ONE GHANA 7 years ago

    IDIOCY IN NPP, STARTED FROM DAY 1!!

  • Nii Zagidi Bogidi 7 years ago

    So here you have it.
    The Dwarf Nana Addo and his incompetent team who spent the past 8 years insulting and attacking the past government have announced their presence with PLAGIARISM.
    Yet, we are being told that the Angels ...
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  • ONE GHANA 7 years ago

    NANA AND NPP MUST APOLOGIZE PROFUSELY TO GHANAIANS FOR BRINGING SUCH AN EMBARRAZEMENT TO THE NATION. THIS BEGINNIG TELLS IT ALL HOW THIS COUNTRY IS GOING TO BE RULED IN THE NEXT 4 YEARS, GOD HAVE MERCY!!!

  • Busia 7 years ago

    This time is incapable. Hahahahahaha

  • Habib 7 years ago

    No matter the level of an Akan, they struggle with the Queen's language, Twi. So, the best Nana could have done is to speak Twi and not copy someone's speech as promise to Ghanaians, VERY SHAMEFUL indeed!!

  • Aponky B33 7 years ago

    Apart from being ugly, nana addo is not intelligent enough to draft a common inaugural speech but goes about copying other people speech.

  • Yawson 7 years ago

    NANA set the bar too high for himself and now he's going to fall on his own sword. He who lives by the sword will die by the sword.

  • Papa 7 years ago

    A GROUP OF PROPAGANDISTS AND PLAGIARISTS. INDEED, BABIES WITH SHARP BRAIN. I LAUGH HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

  • DOKA 7 years ago

    Note that there is no new speech on this earth. Quoting speech is not as same as quoting someone's work. We all quote Bible most times and we do not reference the Bible in all times. In speech Dr. Kwame Nkrumah used a lot of ...
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  • Martin 7 years ago

    Don't be foolish. Of course you can quote anyone, but doing so without attribution is plagiarism which Akuffo-Addo is guilty of. If you don't see anything wrong with what Akuffo-Addo did, then you must be a dishonest person.

  • Philemon Asante 7 years ago

    Plagiarism is not a crime and English is not two but one. There's no special English reserved for heads of state. What did people say when Trump 's wife plagiarized Michelle Obama's speech? 0. Blame the one who wrote the spee ...
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  • Odikro 7 years ago

    This is old news. Are you reporting it here because it was recycled by a foreign news service? I wonder if Aljazeera or BBC or CNN would have recycled and reproduced this because it was reported by Ghanaweb or GTV? Stupid peo ...
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  • ED 7 years ago

    How can this country move forward when we continue to reach speeches that people have read to and from power.don't we have university lecturers in this country?

  • DE General wuntiya 7 years ago

    Is His Excellency Nana Addo is the first President to make error??? What happened in 2015, when he mahama was given speech at ECOWAS?? What happened at Ghana at 59??

  • Freeboy 7 years ago

    Copy copy president, let him copy after all we are in a free world.

  • balablaba 7 years ago

    NDC bootylickers should create English language for ghanaians so that we dont follow the whitemans language anymore.How long will you people learn common sense?we are not native speaker,we are still learning from the whiteman ...
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  • Kofiloto 7 years ago

    This simply means the Akufo Addo has no vision. Above all the people he surrounds himself with are crass and incompetent.

  • Naa 7 years ago

    The one who report must done enough search on plagiarism. Nana Addo had not done anything wrong, it just polite for him to acknowledge the person who use the phrase the very first time in the 1919 also,and not those who also ...
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  • Stanley Ghatth 7 years ago

    that is what happens when you have no precise vision of your own. this neo-con has nothing good to offer Ghana.

  • Kwesi 7 years ago

    He said he was sorry Leave him alone and move on

  • Bismark 7 years ago

    A man once ask me do you know why teachers always get cheated. I laugh at the question and said no. He want to say then you ve never been to a meeting involving teachers. A couldn't help but continue to laugh. I asked Him t ...
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  • Ike 7 years ago

    Is that what Al Jazeera sent its reporter to look for? In fact, its correspondent, Nicholas Haque was sent here during the elections to look for 'bad news' which he never got since there was none. Al Jazeera, therefore, decid ...
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  • KOFI ACHEAMPONG 7 years ago

    Nana the President really used the words of former world leasders to inspire the Nation--- a wise Leader he is and he sees the wisdom in using the inspiring words that has been used before,Makes sense.