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Friday 18 August 2017

$1m Flagstaff House Donation: President Akufo-Addo Being Managed By Incompetent Hands

President Akufo-Addo received a cheque of $1m from the Indian government. The purpose of the gift, which was donated by the Indian Minister of State for External Affairs, is to be used for the renovation of the Flagstaff House.

Whenever I look at the image of the president displaying the cheque on social media, I begin to ask myself, why would the handlers of our president put up the country for international embarrassment by modelling the first gentleman of the land in front of cameras with a $1m gift? 

Couldn’t anyone else but the president have accepted this donation on his behalf? Do I take it that none of the numerous ministers of state was available to receive this money? Not even the Chief of Staff or any of her two deputies?

Receiving $1m by the president may not come across as a big deal, but the truth of the matter is that it is utterly demeaning: it challenges the pride of every Ghanaian, home and abroad. Elsewhere, a head of state would not even make the time to meet over $1m, but here in Ghana, its heaven and earth.

This episode in the seat of government is a good demonstration of our mediocre and shameless way of acting.


The earlier the managers of the president understand that the president is not just flesh and blood, but the symbol of the entire nation’s sovereignty, the better.

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