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President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday, March 5, left Nigeria for Accra, Ghana to attend the country’s 61st independence anniversary held on Tuesday, March 6.
President Buhari was reportedly the only foreign leader invited to the event held at the Independence Square as Special Guest of Honour.
In his speech, he commended President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo of Ghana for the warm reception and congratulated his strides in office.
Meanwhile, some media platforms reported that President Buhari, in his Ghana Independence Day speech, promised to help Ghana to fight corruption.
This has sparked outrageous reactions from both Nigerians and Ghanaians on various social media platforms.
President Buhari delivering his speech at 61st Ghana Independence Anniversary. Credit: Facebook/Femi Adeshina The question, thus, is did President Buhari actually promise to help Ghana fight corruption?
heykayjones.com did a fact-check on the president’s speech.
Claim: President Buhari said Nigeria will help Ghana fight corruption
Fact: Critically reading through President Buhari’s speech at Ghana’s 61st Independence anniversary at the Independence Square in Accra, there is no part where he stated that Nigeria will help Ghana fight corruption. In the speech, President Buhari noted that Nigeria and Ghana were benefitting immensely from leaders committed to improving their economies and tackling corruption. He also commended President Nana Akufo-Addo of Ghana on his achievements in the first year in office, lauding his committed fight against corruption and the passing of the Special Prosecutors Bill into law. He pledged Nigeria’s readiness to collaborate with Ghana in the fight against corruption, noting that the menace of corruption had eaten into the fabrics of both societies. His words: “My tributes to you and the people of Ghana will not be complete without acknowledging your efforts at tackling corruption, which has eaten into the fabrics of our societies. “I congratulate both the government and the Parliament for the quick passage of the Office of the Special Prosecutor Act and its signing into law.
PAY ATTENTION: Read the news on Nigeria’s #1 news app “Your Excellency can be assured that you have a good partner in me as I look forward to any form of collaboration between Nigeria and Ghana in tackling the menace of endemic corruption. Given all these public policies, it becomes reassuring that with the right leadership, Africa’s drives to eradicate poverty and to entrench democracy is on course.”
Conclusion:
President Buhari, in the speech, did not say that Nigeria will help Ghana fight corruption. Rather, he said that Nigeria is ready to collaborate with Ghana in the fight against corruption.
Therefore, the claim that President Buhari said Nigeria will help Ghana fight corruption is false.
In an earlier report, heykayjones.com gathered a collection of Twitter reactions by Ghanaians on the alleged promise by President Buhari to help Ghana fight corruption. In one of the collected reactions, a Ghanaian Twitter user, Emmanuelkopranteng said: "Hmmmmm two corrupt countries agreed to fight corruption let see what will happened"
