Twitter War Between Ghana Presidency And U.S Embassy In Ghana

There seem to be some kind of twitter war going on between Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama Chris and the US Embassy in Ghana.

Recently the president of Ghana, who is a communications expert by profession sent out a tweet from his handle asking Ghanaians to remain clam and to sacrifice a little in these times of tough economic hardship, this was after he had made an earlier call to government officials to accept a salary cut.

@JD Mahama, ''As a people, we have had to make sacrifices. I wish to assure you that the results of these sacrifices would begin to show very soon,'' the tweet read.

But not too long a respond tweet from the US Embassy in GhanaTwitter read:

And what sacrifices are you making? Dont tell me that pay cut.''

The reply infuriated not only the government officials but a certain constituency of Ghanaians who fould the tweet in bad taste, especially as it came from an official handle and that of the US embassy no less.

Ras Mubarak, Coordinator of the Ghana Youth Authority wrote on his Facebook wall:

Those who want to be aloof can be aloof, but I will never watch unconcerned for the US or any country to disrepect my President, irrespective of which party is in 'govt.''

He further prescribed a solution for what he considered a major consular goof.''The Minister of Foreign Affairs should summon the US Ambassador in Accra to explain and apologize for what could be desribed as a mojoy blunder. To have the official US Embassy Twitter account respond to a tweet by our President is such saucy terms is shameful.

The US Emabassy in Acrra has since out up with an apology and an explanation of the circumstances leading to the infamous tweet, with a promise of guarding against similar occurrences in future.

The Embassy clarified that the tweet was accidentally put out by one of its official and that neither the Embassy nor the US government had anything to do with it nor shared the sentiment.

The earlier errant tweet was a private message mistakenly sent out on our account. The views expressed in no way reflect the views of the United State Government or the US Embassy it tweeted. We have apologised to the President and we offer an apology to the Ghananian people. Our staff mixed a personal handle with that of the embassy's it added.

Not satisfied with the explanation however, Foreign Affairs Minsiter, hannah Tetteh also replied the US Embassy tweet.

The tweet was public and associate with your twitter handle. It was not a private/personal account.

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Well said.