Ghanaians react to Prez Mahama’s picture at CNN Headquarters: “that’s demeaning” people complain

• Posted on October 4, 2013October 4, 2013
• by Nana Kwesi Coomson
• 1 Comment

Yesterday on Social Media, the President of Ghana, John Dramani Mahama was taken to the laundry after a picture of the Commander-in-chief of Ghana posing for the camera in front of CNN’s Headquarters in Atlanta, USA surfaced on the internet.

This according to many is a ‘disgrace’ to the nation and demeaning to the Presidency for the President to pose his best in front of the world’s acclaimed Medium, CNN. Asking what makes it a disgrace, some said “was the President using the picture to tell us he was there?”, “It is similar to the Secondary School writing on the walls ‘I was here some’” , “why wont the whites always undermine us when our head is eagerly posing to tell those he govern that he went to CNN?”.

Personally, I bemoaned when I first saw the picture since I started comparing whether David Cameron or Mugabe would do this but then again, I reorganized my thoughts and asked “why was Barrack Obama posing at Cape Coast Castle for the camera ok with us and we have overaction to this? Barrack Obama posed in front of superman statue in Metropolis, Illinois and is it similar or demeaning to Mahama’s?

The first gentleman of the Ghana posed in front of CNN after granting the medium an interview.

Are Ghanaians overacting to this picture? Has President Mahama demeaned the Presidency? Share your clever opinions with us.

Author: Nana Kwesi Coomson (www.233times.net)