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General news for Saturday, March 13, 2021
Source: My GH news
2021-03-13
Ningo Prampram MP Sam Nartey George
The Ningo-Prampram branch of the Democratic National Congress (NDC) appeared to have repudiated its Member of Parliament (MP), Sam George Nartey, following his claims that some lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex (LGBTQI) anonymous They have vowed to remove him in the party’s upcoming parliamentary primaries if he continues to attack them.
According to a statement released by the constituency’s Deputy Communications Officer, Shehu Usman Mohammed, Samuel George Nartey’s claim that unknown LGBTQI contacted him by phone to warn him that if he continues to make noise against his operations in the country, he was still one of his regulars. acts of seeking attention and should be ignored.
The Deputy Communications Officer, in the statement, said the claim could not be true and that it was just a shrewd move by the MP to get sympathy votes before the upcoming primaries.
“We have taken note of the claim of the Hon. Sam George, MP for the Ningo-Prampram constituency, who received a call from an unknown person who said that [LGBTQ people] will use its financial power to ensure that [Sam George] he loses the next parliamentary primary elections that he may be participating in in his electoral district so that he can no longer have a voice in the country.
“The deputy is said to have made this statement on GhOne TV last week. This statement from our MP has been published by websites such as Vanguard.com and modernghana.com. We consider that the statement stems from a mischief and a simple lie calculated to tarnish the image of those who oppose the parliamentarian in our next primaries in the eyes of all the thinking citizens of the constituency.
“Obviously, the claim is to make those who will not be able to see through this lie, come to the conclusion during the next electoral primaries of the party that the Hon. Sam George’s opponent is being funded by the LGBTQ group. By doing so, the vast majority of Ghanaians in the constituency vehemently opposed to this kind of degradation of sexual orientation will automatically join its cause against whoever challenges it, ”said Shehu Mohammed.
The statement went on to say that “You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to see through the inferior tactics the MP is employing. Why would LGBTQ people only target him when he is not the only MP who has spoken out against his attempt to have his activities recognized and legalized in Ghana? It is a fact that some deputies from both sides of the political division, including the Hon. Haruna Iddrisu, NDC caucus leader in Parliament and Tamale South MP, Hon. Mahama Ayariga, Bawku Central MP, Hon. Clement Apaak, Builsa South MP, Hon. John Ntim Fordjour, Assin South MP, and Hon Adwoa Sarfo, MP for Dome-Kwabenya have spoken publicly against attempts by LGBTQ to gain a foothold in Ghana. His comments have been broadcast both electronically and in print and are out in the world. Broadband. Why haven’t they gotten the same call from LGBTQ threatening to make sure they lose in their next primary either?
“Hon. Sam George should stop the lies and the attempt to smear decent people who will want to challenge it. We call on Ghanaians, especially NDC supporters in the Ningo-Prampram constituency, to ignore our MP’s claim, which is the product of their own imagination. There is no way for a group like LGBTQ to play a role, either covertly or overtly, in the constituency party primaries because the upcoming constituency primaries will be contested, as has always been the case, by men and women. women of high morals. standards that will be embarrassed at the very idea. When the time comes, any citizen who wishes to participate in the primaries does so without obstacles or obstacles. You should not be intimidated by the Hon. Sam George’s false claim, ”the statement concluded.
Shehu Mohammed’s press release followed fiery anger among some NDC executives in the Electoral District, who said they had defected from their MP even before the party began its reorganization in the area, over his alleged derogatory comments that suggested that they, as delegates, could be influenced by the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Intersex (LGBTQI) community to vote against them in the upcoming primaries.
Ningo-Prampram’s controversial MP last weekend made a questionable accusation that his political future had been threatened after he recently convicted LGBTQ advocates and their funders in the country.
According to him, after making his comments on television last Friday, February 19, he received a call from a stranger the next day who told him: [LGBTQ], would use his financial power to make sure that he, Sam George, loses the next parliamentary primaries that he may be contesting in his constituency.
“You know when I spoke for the first time last week on a television network on Friday, over the weekend; I received a call and that is what has irritated me and made me do everything possible so that we have an all-out fight. Someone gave me that look, right? [Sam George] they know how rich the LGBTQI community is and that they will bring money and make sure that the platform that I have as a deputy that I think gives me the right to speak… they will find me in my primaries, ”said the deputy on GhOne television. last Friday.
But in a sharp response to the claim they described as fictitious, some of the branch executives who spoke angrily to this portal said that Sam George already knows that he has no chance of winning the next parliamentary primaries in the constituency, so both courtship of public sympathy.
They said they are not surprised that he conceded defeat before the primaries, as everyone is aware that he did not win the last parliamentary primaries, as the party illegally and shamefully manipulated the process to impose it.
“He knows that we will not vote for him even if he himself faces the devil in a fight. And he also knows that he did not win the last primaries and that he was commissioned by the same party that manipulated the process to favor him as an interim Parliamentary Candidate. He knows that we voted for him during the general elections only for the good of the party, ”a group of Dawhenya residents said angrily.
Some of them pointed out that his claim that the LGBTQI community had threatened to fund someone to remove him during the primaries is a direct attack and a direct insult to anyone who challenges him in the upcoming primaries.
“We all know his opponent when it comes to Ningo-Prampram NDC and he is an established businessman and self-made man with enough resources and does not need any financial support from anyone or the LGBTQ community in order to beat him (Sam George). Your opponent has the financial muscle to beat you any day, any time.
“To suggest that his opponent, who is married, has children and an outspoken anti-LGBTQ will condescend so low in accepting evil money from such a despicable group to finance his politics, is to say the least that a disrespectful and rude person cannot continue to accommodate to such a character in silence. The Ningo-Prampram constituency deserves a decent leader as a member of Parliament, ”they stated.
A visit to Old and New Ningo, as well as Prampram, revealed that the majority of the electorate is unhappy with their MP’s savage assertion, describing it as an act of cowardice and mere attention-seeking as almost all MPs are speaking out. against the ungodly activities of the LGBTQI community. community in Ghana.
“He is not the only member of Parliament who opposes the evil activities of gays and lesbians in the country. Many of his colleagues have spoken out boldly against him and we have never heard any of them make the savage claim that gays and lesbians have threatened them. Why him alone? one of the residents asked.
Some of them accused him of setting an evil agenda before the primaries to label his opponent as someone who received support from the LGBTQI community should he be defeated in the upcoming parliamentary primaries.
“What our MP is trying to do is set an agenda to paint his opponent, who he knows will win the next parliamentary primaries, as someone who accepted the support of gays and lesbians should he (opponent) win in the upcoming primaries that very obvious. He has been painting his opponent the entire time and we have been silent, but this time we will not sit down and allow him to continue. Enough is enough, ”said one of them.
