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Nana Akufo-Addo
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“Stop using COVID-19 vaccination as immigration control against Africans.”
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Recorded in: Nana Akuffo-Addo (2021) cited in: "Ghana President Nana Akufo-Addo to UN - 'Stop using Covid-19 vaccination as immigration control against Africans'" in BBC News, 23 September 2021.
“‘Sika mmpɛ dede’ means 'money does not like noise”
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Recorded in: During his speech on the state of Ghana's economy "Why ‘Sika mmpɛ dede’ is social media’s takeaway from Akuffo-Addo speech" in MyJoyOnline, 30 October 2022.
“Be citizens not spectators”
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Recorded in: During his investiture in Parliament of Ghana, "Continue being citizens not spectators in my 2nd term – Nana Addo to Ghanaians" in Citi Newsroom, January 7, 2021
“All die be die”
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Recorded in: Told New Patriotic Party members in Koforidua during a meeting, "All die be die - Nana Akuffo-Addo" in Modern Ghana, 10 February 2011
“We know what to do to bring the economy back to life, but not how to bring people back to life”
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Recorded in: Address To The Nation on the Economy, October 2022
“Just as technology offers opportunities to grow our economies and bring progress to our people, there are criminal syndicates who will always be bent on exploiting it for their selfish interests. They have to be relentlessly fought.”
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Recorded in: President Akuffo-Addo made the call when he addressed the opening session of the African Regional Conference of the Society Worldwide Inter-bank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) in Accra, June 19, 2019
“Let us all remember that the destiny of all black people no matter where they are in the world is bound up with Africa. We must help make Africa the place for investment, progress, and prosperity and not from where our youth flee in the hope of accessing the mirage of a better life in Europe or the Americas.”
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Recorded in: He said this on November 13, 2022, during a speech at the Young African and Diaspora Leaders' Summit in Washington, D.C., which was held concurrently with the US-Africa Leaders' Summit.
“We want to build a Ghana beyond aid; a Ghana which looks to the use of its own resources. We want to build an economy that is not dependent on charity and handouts, but an economy that will look at the proper management of its resources as the way to engineer social and economic growth in our country.”
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“I shall protect the public purse by insisting on value for money in all public transactions. Public service is just that — service and not an avenue for making money. Money is to be made in the private sector, not the public. Measures will be put in place to ensure this”
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“Where I am and how old I am at least, this is not the time I will start stealing anybody's wealth”
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“We must be defined by what we see in ourselves, and not what others choose to say about us.”
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“Democracies are founded on elections, and the holding of free and credible elections ensure that people have confidence in the government that emerges at the end of the process”
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“I will not let you, the people of Ghana down”
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“We should learn and accept that we do not own the land, but hold it in trust for future generations”
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“We can, indeed, build a Ghana Beyond Aid".”
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“The battle is the Lord’s, and I know that ultimately, it is He who will give us victory.”
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“After 60 years of independence, we no longer has an excuse for being poor.”
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“Yes, we are a continent rich in potential and resilient in the face of adversity, but we have also been disadvantaged by a global system that has generally treated us as an afterthought”
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“Bear in mind that formal education is not just about securing excellent academic grades.”
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“We must eat what we grow to motivate our farmers and support the development of the local food industry.”
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“The Ghanaian people deserve a government that has a vision for the country, and a plan for how to get there.”
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“Ghana is ready for business again”
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“Be curious, compassionate and resilient because the country look up to you as scholars but also as ambassadors of the nation’s potential in endangering progress, prosperity and development.”
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“the journey ahead requires vision and responsibility. 5G is a powerful catalyst for shaping Ghana's future”
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“We must address concerns around data privacy, cybersecurity, and responsible use to ensure that 5G fosters progress, not division”
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“I don't want to hand over power to someone who cannot do the job, God will not even allow it. Bawumia is the perfect person to take over from me”
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“t is always a great pleasure to be in the company of Organised Labor on the occasion of the International Workers Day of Solidarity, May Day. Ghanaian workers, ayekoo.”
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Recorded in: President Akufo Addo's speech at 2023 May day parade
“If Ghanaians want someone to attest to Dr Bawumia’s qualities, I am the best person because I have worked closely with him. I know he is truthful and has Ghana’s progress at heart. If you come to the Jubilee House late at night, you will only see two lights on, and these are our office lights—myself and Dr Bawumia.”
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“No amount of money will ever make up for the horrors but it will make the point that evil was perpetuated – that millions of productive Africans were snatched from our continent and put to work in the Americans and Caribbean’s without compensations from their labor”
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“Grand inhumane enterprise was state-sponsored and deliberate and its benefits are clearly interwoven in the present-day economic architecture of the nations that designed and executed it”
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“If there is any hesitation in some minds about the paying of reparations, it is worth considering the fact that when slavery was abolished, the slave owners were compensated for the loss of the slave because human beings were labelled as property deemed to be commodities. Surely, this is a matter that the world must confront and can no longer ignore”
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“Maybe we should also admit that it cannot be easy to build confident and prosperous societies from nations that from centuries have their natural resources looted and their people traded as commodities”
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“For centuries, the world has been unwilling and unable to confront the realities of the realities of consequences of the slave trade but gradually this is changing and it is time to bring the subject of reparations firmly to the fore”
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“It is time to acknowledge openly that much of the European, United States has been from the vast wealth harvested from the sweat, tears, blood and horrors of the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the centuries of colonial exploitation”
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