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The dust is yet to settle over President Nana Akufo-Addo’s lifting of parts of the speeches of US Presidents Bill Clinton and George W Bush in his inaugural speech on Saturday.

The Ghanaian president has since apologised for the blunder.

But how did he plagiarise the US presidents? Here are video clips of how it happened.

In the first clip, Bush said: “I ask you to be citizens. Citizens not spectators; citizens not subjects. Responsible citizens building a community of service and a nation of character.”

Akufo-Addo said the same thing with a minor adjustment. “I ask you to be citizens. Citizens not spectators; citizens not subjects. Responsible citizens building your communities and our nation.”

In the second, Clinton said: “Though our challenges are fearsome, so are our strengths. Americans  have ever been a restless, questing,  hopeful people.  And we must bring to our task today the vision and will of those who came before us.”

Akufo-Addo’s utterances were similar: “Though our challenges are fearsome, so are our strengths. Ghanaians  have ever been a restless, questing,  hopeful people.  And we must bring to our task today the vision and will of those who came before us.”