Ghana apologizes for plagiarism photo of Kenya's skyline

General News on Friday, May 31, 2019

Source: 3news.com

2019-05-31

Ghana apologized for plagiarizing the photo of a Kenyan building used as a cover of the government's strategy paper entitled "Ghana Beyond Aid", issued by President Nana Akufo-Addo on May 1st.

The use of the photo of the headquarters of the Dawit Insurance Agency Limited in Nairobi as a cover page of the strategy paper has prompted criticism of the government, some describing the act as being embarrbading.

Critics were shocked by the way government officials led President Nana Addo Dankwa AKufo-Addo to show the document with the photo plagiarized at a national event broadcast live on television.

"As if plagiarizing the president's speech was not enough, he again photographed a Nairobi skyline and that's what you see when you open the document" Beyond Ghana, "said MP Kumbungu Ras Mubarak at Starr FM.

He does not understand why the authors of the paper turned a blind eye to the Accra skyline and more exciting ones in developed countries to choose the Kenya skyline.

Government officials would have initially underestimated the problem and urged Ghanaians to focus more on the content of the document, which aims to guide Ghana towards an irreversible path of progress and prosperity.

But one day after the problem appeared, the Committee on Assistance Beyond Ghana issued a statement in which it apologized to the President and Ghanaians and took full responsibility for what he had qualified error.

"The Committee fully apologizes to the President and the nation for this error," said the Secretary-General of the Committee, said Dr. Eric Yeboah.

This is the original photo of Dawit Insurance plagiarized in Ghana's Beyond Assistance Strategy Paper

He stated that the Committee "takes full responsibility" and is currently "ensuring that the cover page of the document is replaced before bulk copies are printed for wide dissemination." ".

"We regret this mistake, again," he added.