BUHARI TO PUNISH OWN
OFFICIAL FOR PLAGIARISING OBAMA IN HIS ‘CHANGE BEGINS WITH ME’’ SPEECH
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resident Muhammadu Buhari has
ordered that prompt and appropriate disciplinary action be taken against those
responsible for a wrongful insertion in his speech delivered on September 8,
2016 at the launch of the “Change Begins with Me’’ campaign.
Many critics have attacked Buhari
for the similarity of his speech with that of President Barack Obama’s 2008
inaugural speech and called on him to show remorse.
It was observed that the
similarities between a paragraph in President Obama’s 2008 Victory Speech and
what President Buhari read in paragraph nine of the sixteen-paragraph address
while inaugurating the Campaign on Thursday, September 8, 2016 were too close
to be passed as coincidence.
But the Presidency described the
development as a mistake by an overzealous staff and regretted the occurrence.
“There was a mistake by An
overzealous staff and we regret that this has happened, Garba Shehu, Senior
Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, said in a statement
last night. Shehu said that a Deputy Director in the Presidency had already
accepted responsibility for the insertion of the contentious paragraph.
“This serious oversight will be
investigated thoroughly and appropriate sanction meted. “The Presidency wishes
to state in the clearest possible terms that it regrets this unfortunate
incident and will ensure that this does not happen again.
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