Who is the biggest liar in Ghana? Here's what you need to know!

Who is the biggest liar in Ghana? Here's what you need to know!

Concealing the truth to another's detriment, like lying does, is looked down upon in Ghanaian culture. Despite this, it is not unheard of for a person to become famous for his or her ability to tell convincing lies. In fact, the capacity to deceive has been linked to success in fields like politics and law. Who then is the biggest liar in Ghana?

You must first prove that remarkable skill in lying is a rarity these days. Because of this, there are both small-time liars who are simple to catch in the act and master manipulators who can convince you of anything. Being called "the biggest liar in Ghana" is an unfortunate appellation since it implies that no word you utter can be trusted.

The image of the Vice President of the Republic of Ghana, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, appears in the search results when the question "who is the biggest liar in Ghana?" is entered into Google. Given his position in government and the reputation of certain politicians for lying, it's not completely unbelievable, but is it true?

The first thing that springs to mind is that this may be a smear campaign orchestrated by the politician's opponents in an effort to discredit him. In any case, there is a more sensible justification for why Dr. Bawumia's image should come up in response to the search.

In 2018, Google CEO Sundar Pichai testified before the Judiciary Committee in Washington, DC, where he was questioned about why results for the search term "IDIOT" always include a picture of President Donald Trump.

And describing Google's inner workings, he remarked, “Anytime you type in a Keyword, as Google we have gone out and crawled and stored copies of billions of Websites pages in our index. And we take the Keyword and match it against their pages and rank them based on over 200 signals – things like relevance, freshness, popularity, how other people are using it.

And based on that, at any given time, we try to rank and find the best search results for that query. And then evaluate it to objective guideline. And that how we make sure the process is working. This is working at scale and we don’t manually intervene on any particular search result” he said.

And so, it's clear from the above that Google doesn't consider Bawumia to be the biggest liar in Ghana. However, Bawumia's picture may have shown up since many Ghanaians have used the keyword along with his name and images.