A paragraph in Nana Akufo-Addos inaugural speech at the Independence Square on Saturday, January 7, 2017, appear to have been lifted verbatim from a speech US former president George Bush delivered at his

"I ask you to be citizens. Citizens, not spectators. Citizens, not subjects. Responsible citizens, building communities of service and a nation of character," Bush said on Saturday, Jan. 20, 2001.

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Akufo-Addo told a roaring crowd at the Independence Square that: "The change can and should start now. I urge you to be citizens, not spectators; citizens, not subjects. Responsible citizens building our communities and our nation. Let us work until the work is done."

National Democratic Congress activist Stephen Kwabena Attuh was among the first to point out the seeming similarities between the two speeches by sharing Bush's 2001 inaugural address in 2001.

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