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Personally, I was deeply upset to learn that the cover of the advertising pamphlet produced for the "Ghana Beyond Aid Strategy Paper" included a cover depicting the photographed silhouette of Nairobi. , the capital of Kenya (See "We do not need your excuses."; Resist – Ras Mubarak informs the Committee about badistance beyond Ghana "(Kasapafmonline.com / Ghanaweb.com 5/31 Since this embarrbading report, inexcusably, made the headlines, we learned that the mistake came from a designer or an artist who had been hired for the project. Now, I want to know how much this artist-designer has been paid for such an outrageous production.But, of course, this last faux-pas also reminded me of a series of quaint nocturnal clocks that a friend has recently moved me, which had been produced by the government hinois, I guess, for the Ghana government, which could have been easily used for this purpose without encountering any type of intellectual property theft committed by the designer of the cover page of the "Strategy Paper for Assistance Beyond of Ghana ", and which was actually more impressive than the previous plagiarized one describing the skyline of the city of Nairobi.
The gravity of this misstep – which is actually a scandal – is not diminished by the fact that the Ghana Development Assistance Committee is led by Yaw Osafo-Maafo, the Prime Minister of the Government of the New Government. led by Akufo-Addo. The Patriotic Party (NPP), a former Finance and Sports Minister of the Government John Agyekum-Kufuor, is also known to have distinguished itself remarkably as a successful entrepreneur. It is clear, at least from the list of members of the committee published by the media, that project officials were far too busy with their own ministerial portfolios for being cluttered with this project, namely publication and distribution of the pamphlet that would have It could be easily and effectively badigned to a much smaller committee, preferably composed of members from among the members of the Party's Communication Department or the Presidency.
Nevertheless, this blunder is very small compared to the program brochure produced and made public by the Mahama presidency at the celebration of the anniversary of Ghana's independence on March 6, 2016. I remember very well, and M Ras Mubarak, deputy of the National Democratic Congress in Kumbungu, in the Northern Region, also remembers very well the President of Ghana and the host of the program, which held on the famous Place de l & d Independence, Mr Uhuru Kenyatta, President of Kenya. In this case, I do not remember the member of parliament for Kumbungu NDC who asked for the immediate resignation of Mr. Stanislav Xoese Dogbe, the director of communications at the presidency. To be certain, prior to this global scandal, President Mahama had been invited by the President of the Ghana Association of Journalists (GJA) to take disciplinary action against Mr. Dogbe, who allegedly abused a Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) radio journalist.
As a result of this incident, we would discover to our shock and horror that Mr. Dogbe had been promoted. Later, after President Mahama was largely removed from office by Ghanaian voters, Alban SK Bagbin, the second deputy speaker of parliament and the oldest deputy in power, told the nation that during the four- A six-year term as President of Mahama, is Mr. Stanislav Dogbe who had served as de facto president. Well, I do not buy the simplistic Ghanaian custom of the past few days that the excuses are somehow a definitive antidote to the blatant violation of the protocol in this column. Nevertheless, I think that what is more significant and deserves serious national attention here is the scandalously embarrbading fact that more and more Ghanaian leaders are showing a flagrant and abject lack of trust, pride and patriotic identity with this Sub-Saharan Democratic Republic called Ghana. .
If anyone wants to understand why our country is in crisis, now, at all levels of the national effort, it is here that we have to start. Ghana seems to be clearly in a coma. A real state of suspended animation, I mean. Now we can start talking seriously about finding solutions.
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By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., PhD
Department of English, SUNY-Nbadau
Garden City, New York
June 9, 2019
E-mail: [email protected]
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