President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is starting his Presidency on the worst footing possible after his inaugural speech had portions of seemingly plagiarised content.

Nana Akufo-Addo’s speech, at a point, made reference to the need for citizens to be more involved in the governance process and not merely be spectators.

“I ask you to be citizens: citizens, not spectators; citizens, not subjects; responsible citizens building your communities and our nation. Let us work until the work is done,” The President said.

Those words are lifted verbatim from President George W. Bush’s inaugural speech in 2001.

A separate portion seems lifted from a similar Bill Clinton speech in 1993.

Whilst the Director of Communications at the Presidency has apologised for the embarrassing oversight, other NPP followers are defending the speech as not plagiarised. They claim the words were first used by US President Woodrow Wilson, whose death nearly a century ago nullifies any copyright he holds over the words – US copyright laws allows up to 70 after the death of a person after which their exclusive rights to content are nullified.

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