Mills hires Translator for Historic Obama Visit
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Accra – After much fretting about how best not to disgrace the country with his poor grammar skills, President Atta Mills has devised a brilliant strategy. He will be hiring a translator in anticipation of Barak Obama’s historic visit to Ghana.
A vendor holds a badge showing the new Ghanaian leader together with US President Barack Obama.
The man who gave us the now massively popular “ecomini” had this to say when queried about how the hiring of a translator would look to the rest of the world.
“Barak Obama has no right assume I can speak English, just because I went to an American University,” said Mills. “Furthermore, he has no right to assume that just because all our billboards, school books and programmes are written in English, that I myself can speak English.”
Many have hailed the strategy as daring and avant garde, and have lauded Mills for potential saving the nation from international disgrace. Critics, however, are a little more skeptical.
“You’re talking about a man who cannot say common ‘Otumfuo’,” said Felix Owusu, a 15 year dog chain seller. “No translator, no matter how skilled, can translate that!”
In the meanwhile, the president’s propaganda team is trying to figure how best to convince the Obama’s that Ghana’s blazing sun is not as hot as they believe it to be.
