PRESIDENCY TO SANCTION OFFICIAL OVER ‘CHANGE BEGINS WITH ME’’ SPEECH

President 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.

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 are too close to be passed as coincidence.

There was a mistake by an overzealous staff and we regret that this has happened.
Already, a Deputy Director in the Presidency has 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.

President Buhari urges Nigerians to look beyond this incident and focus on the message of change which the country needs in order to restore our cherished value systems.

Garba Shehu
SSA to the President
(Media & Publicity)
September 16, 2016

Source: https://facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1107479072677765&id=100002470489894&refid=7&_ft_=qid.6331044291208596558:mf_story_key.-9199909697783890611&__tn__=%2As&fbt_id=1107479072677765&lul&ref_component=mbasic_photo_permalink_actionbar&_rdr#s_7cb2377bef6cc6f408d721ee7cf16d94

It's nice seeing the presidency admitting its fault and taking appropriate disciplinary measures against the plagiarist. By the way, those who initially defended the theft should bury their heads on shame.

lol

Buhari has finished making jest of us in the international community before all these medicine after death.



If only buhari do read instead of watching cartoon he would have detected the plagiarized text

Nonsense illiterate good for nothing Nigerian government,ordinary speech that a secondary school student can give they cannot, everything na copy copy, [/b]how dey won change Nigeria for better[b], they obviously have nothing to offer

Equally, sanction should also be met out to the reader of the speech

What a horrid presidency

which action, his media officer didn't proofread it? it will end up like budget padding, integrity my backside.

The 'unfortunate innocent man' will be punished for what he knows nothing about.
In this government, somebody gotta take the blame

Medicine after death... National embarrassment.... Biased anti-Graft war.... Lies and deciet... d list goes on... and somehow some people would say someone that couldn't pre-read a script he would be using can lead these nation forward.... lol.. i tie wrapper cross leg dey watch sha...

This goes to show the president does not even read his speeches before delivering it to the public..

One day, Bubu will read Harry porters story to us as his speech..

there are more important queries to initiate in this administration. First who and how does the forex handled, why is the GOC Army yet to answer to the Dubai properties, did the president wife have anything to haliburton, the corruption petition against the transport minister about his tenure as governor. I don't care about a speech cause am sure I use other peoples quote when I find it inspiring. Obama used Martin Luther King Jnr "I have a dream speech". So investigate and prosecute important issues

Hahhahhahahahh... Dullards everywhere.


Naija we don enter one chance o.

Story story, Story!!!

Just imagine the buffoonery of the APC presidency. Shameless scumbags .

Nonsense! Buhari read, u no go read, na to dey watch and laugh with tom and jerry u sabi. Buhari need to sanction himself first or step down immediately coz he is a terrible failure.Small time now, e go begin dey blame Donald trump for his copy copy speech.

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Equally, sanction should also be met out to the reader of the speech

I just read that speech story frm another source on fb. They really stole frm obamas speech? Na wa o! And yet we no hear word.