The next time you try to get closer to the President of Ghana, look carefully to ensure that all his bodyguards do not have their overprotective cloaks on before you venture.
Whether he is in a heavily guarded car or trotting on his feet to a destination, there is clearly no safe space for those who want a closer look.
The outcome may not be as pleasant as the citizen might anticipate.
That may have been the case of an old man who was brutally pushed and crashed to the ground by a bodyguard in a video that has gone viral on social media.
The event that warranted the President’s presence is still unclear, but the manner in which the older man was pushed by the hefty bodyguard was captured on a clear camera by an onlooker who stood at a safe distance, unlike the old man.
In the 33-second video, the old man is seen rushing toward the car as he shouts “Nana nie” in a clearly complementary fashion with an outstretched hand, suggestively to give the President a high five.
The sequence of his plot was immediately twisted as he was met with a push to his chest, closer to the hem of his neck, that sent him to the ground, and quickly back on his feet to avoid being passed on by the President’s car.
Other guards surrounded him and appeared to admonish his carelessness, instead of consoling or dusting the literal dirt and emotional shame off him. The frail man’s only offence was to seek a wave or perhaps a closer view of President Akufo Addo.
The President’s car moved on to more shouts of accolades from the crowd on the scene as the abused old man was left out of the rest of the video chronicle of events.
This will not be the first scenario of a commoner who tried to catch a closer glimpse of a powerful leader in any country.
However, this will surely go down in history as one of the worst civilian treatment of a commoner who was pushed away in the clear view of the president to pave way for his car.
Source: Ghanaweb.com
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Ghanaians like this fake sympathy too much. This culture of always wanting to go and touch and shake the hands of our presidents should stop. If one day somebody hit any of our presidents with something lethal and he is seriously hurt or die we will be the same people who will come and lambaste the security detail of the presidency for sleeping on their work. What kind of people are we? We complain over everything. Annoying. And to one of the commentators by name Nana who who shows this fake sympathy claiming that it was the same people who voted him so should have been allowed to go and shake hands with the president. Can you imagine everybody who voted for the president going to have a hand shake with the president? Haaaaba! Sometimes we should be reasonable a bit.
you always read meanings into things, is he the only person around to give the prez. a high five? what would have happened if he has been allowed to do that you would have seen others also rushing to do same and you would have seen total chaos. by the way is he the only person who voted for him? what about if he was wielding a bomb.
Bad action, he don’t deserve that at least he should have been prevented from not coming closer to the car. Hmmm the same people voted him into power and look at what they are doing to them.