In delivering his address on the state of the economy, President Akufo-Addo spent some time on the need for all Ghanaians to take steps to protect the Ghana cedi, which has been suffering massive depreciation against the United States dollar.
In seeking to buttress his point, Akufo-Addo employed a French proverb about money stating thus: “Fellow Ghanaians, as the French would say, l’argent n’aime pas le bruit, to wit, money does not like noise, sika mpɛ dede.”
“Where there is chaos, where there is noise, where there is unrest, you will not find money. If you talk down your money, it will go down. If you allow some unidentifiable person to talk down your money, it will go down,” he stressed.
Shatta Wale joined the hundreds of Twitter users to comment on the quote hours after the address.
He wrote: “Sika mp3 dede ???????????????? I for feature this man la ????”
On social media, the proverb has gone viral with people poking fun at it, others analyzing it whiles others are giving it an interpretation of their own.
