Brochure gaffe: To err is human – Lawrence Tetteh

The Founder and President of the Worldwide Miracle Outreach Dr Lawrence Tetteh wants Ghanaians to temper justice with mercy, despite the embarrassment the Event Brochure for the Independence Day celebration has caused the nation.

The error-prone brochure, authored by the Information Services Department (ISD), referred to Kenya leader Uhuru Kenyatta as the President of Ghana, while describing the 59-year-old country as a “low income country” among other misrepresentations.

The ISD boss Francis Kwarteng Arthur has apologised for the gaffe and taken responsibility, but his subordinates are up in arms against his stance and calling for his resignation.

Dr Tetteh believes humans are fallible and such blunders are bound to happen hence Ghanaians “have to look at the positive areas of the [Independence Day] ceremony.”

“To err is human,” the International Evangelist told the host of Morning Starr Nii Arday Clegg Wednesday.

He stressed that although Ghanaians have a right to rant over the blip, they must not also gloss over the “unity that the ceremony portrayed” with former Presidents JJ Rawlings and John Kufuor attending in the presence of sitting president John Mahama and other political party executives such as Nana Akufo-Addo.

“We should look at the positive aspects,” Dr. Tetteh emphasised.

Meanwhile, The Executive Director of the Institute of Democratic Governance (IDEG) Dr. Emmanuel Akwetey has called on the director of the Information Services Department to resign.

According to him, the apology being issued by Arthur does not atone for the embarrassment he has caused the President and the country.