In January this year, a UK minister was 60 seconds late to answer a question in parliament and he stunned colleagues in the House of Lords by stating his intention to resign. Lord Bates said his action is for the "discourtesy" of arriving late to a session.
But this week in Ghana, journalists got a proper snapshot of all that is wrong with Ghanaians regarding the carefree attitude to time.
A member of the football normalization committee, Duah Adonteng, was a whole one hour late to a press briefing he and his colleagues had invited journalists to.
He reacted furiously after veteran journalist Ekow Asmah questioned why the gathering was asked to clap for him when he walked in late to the event.
Unlike Bates who arrived 60 seconds late and went straight to the microphone in the chamber of parliament to apologise and resign, Mr Adonteng yelled that he will not accept the stupidity of being questioned about his lateness.
The difference between the Ghanaian attitude to time and work to that of British is as clear as daylight.
To think that Lord Bates was in charge of distributing UK taxpayers aid to countries like Ghana yet he did see everything wrong with his action speaks volumes. It was late for him to say sorry so he resigned.
Connecting on Ghana Connect to discuss the issue of the whole debacle was blogger and international photo-journalist, Nana Kofi Acquah; sports journalists Micheal Oti Adjei, Jorome Otchere, Fiifi Anaman, Nathaniel Attoh and Ekow Asmah.
Watch the discussion:
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