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Akufo-Addo's inaugural speech seems to plagiarise George Bush

07 January 2017 at 17:00
A paragraph in Nana Akufo-Addo's inaugural speech at the Independence Square on Saturday Januray 7, 2017 appear to have been lifted verbatim from a speech US former president George Bush delivered at his inaugural address in 2001.

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."

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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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