[ 2017-02-13 ]

There were reports suggesting the Ghana@60 logo was plagiarised

Gh@60 logo not plagiarised – Committee
The planning committee inaugurated to oversee the
celebration of the Ghana@60 anniversary has
dismissed allegations that the logo was
plagiarised.

Addressing journalists at the first media briefing
of the committee, the chairman of the media
sub-committee, Jefferson Sackey, revealed that the
logo was an original design which best resonated
with the theme of the celebration dubbed
'Mobilising for Ghana's Future'.

“It was a transparent process, people submitted
their artworks and we ensured that we saw the
process with which they were going through in
designing their logos. I can tell you for a fact
that we received over a hundred of them. What the
sub-committee did was to sit down and select 20 of
them and present it to the National Planning
Committee.

At the National Planning Committee, they went
ahead and selected five of the logos and then we
actually had to submit the five to experts in the
design industry and media industry for them to see
if they can link the theme to what they have
presented. … The issue of plagiarism is
something that comes to us as a surprise,” he
said in response to a question by Class FM’s
Kwesi Parker-Wilson.

He added that the team has done its research and
the media should do their independent research to
verify claims of any plagiarism.

Mr Sackey explained that the logo was designed by
one Emmanuel Addo, a graduate student at the Kwame
Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and
that his design, according to the judgement of the
committee, best resonated with the theme of the
celebration.

According to him, the alternate logo circulating
within the media landscape was created by some
people seeking to undermine the credibility of the
planning committee.

Source - classfmonline.com

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