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General news for Saturday, March 6, 2021
Source: Happy 98.9FM
2021-03-06
NDC National Communications Officer, Sammy Gyamfi
The National Communications Officer of the Democratic National Congress (NDC), Samuel ‘Sammy’ Gyamfi, has pointed to being on the path of destroying his young political career with his unguided statements.
According to political analyst Dr. Isaac Brako, the young politician’s statements against members of parliament and the NDC spokesperson, after the chamber voted to approve the nominations of some of the nominees rejected by the nominating committee, are dangerous.
Dr. Brako noted that Sammy Gyamfi is young in the party and could end his political career causing discontent from NDC deputies and other party leaders. “Former President Mahama will soon leave the active political scene after 2024 and Sammy Gyamfi will stay with the same people he is speaking against. What you are doing is dangerous; Do you want to split the party or unite it?
You should learn from the examples of Koku Anyidoho and the like. Koku was a powerful man under Mills’ administration, but now look at him, he has lost all his influence in the party, ”he said in an interview with Samuel Eshun on the Happy Morning Show broadcast on e.TV Ghana and Happy98.9FM.
The academic made the remarks after Sammy Gyamfi described the Speaker of Parliament and the NDC leadership in parliament as disloyal to the party.
Specifically, Sammy Gyamf, MP for Tamale South, Haruna Iddrisu and Asawase, Muntaka Mubarak, stated: “Comrades, the betrayal we have suffered at the hands of the Speaker of Parliament, Rt. Hon. Alban Bagbin, the leadership of our parliamentary group, in In particular the Hon. Haruna Iddrissu and Hon. Muntaka Mubarak, and dozens of our own MPs, is what strengthens me to work hard for the great NDC to regain power.
They blatantly defied the party leadership and betrayed the collective good out of selfish interest. And we must not let them succeed in their parish quest to destroy the NDC, the party that has done so much for them and for all of us. The shame they have brought to the party will forever hang like an albatross around their necks. “
His impeachment comes after NDC deputies on Parliament’s Appointments Committee approved Defense Minister-designate Dominic Nitiwul, and then approved three other rejected-appointed ministers when they were brought before the House.
These nominees are the designated Minister of Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, the designated Minister of Agriculture and Food, Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto, and the designated Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture, Hawa Koomson, who were previously rejected by minority MPs in the Committee. of Appointments.
The designated Minister of Agriculture and Food, Dr. Afriyie Akoto, obtained 53.96% with 143 votes of the 265 ballots cast with a null ballot.
Mavis Hawa Koomson also got 60.75% with 161 votes, while Oppong Nkrumah amassed 58.65% with 155 votes.
With Ghana’s parliament still comprised of 137 NPP MPs, 137 NDC MPs, and one independent candidate, it shows that some MPs on the NDC side had voted to approve the appointed ministers.
However, he urged the party faithful not to lose their love for the party with this betrayal.
“These are difficult times for all of us, but we must not allow the betrayal of a few to dampen our love for the great NDC. Rather, that it strengthens us to fight for this match. We all have the same interest in this party. They are few, we are many. Some have sold their conscience but ours is intact. And we can work together to rebuild the match from the ashes of March 3, 2021, which I call “Black Wednesday,” our day of self-inflicted shame.
This is the time for us to insist on the right changes in the leadership of the NDC group in Parliament or to forget about them altogether. The current leaders have lost their moral authority to lead and are in no position to sit on the front bench on the NDC side of the house. More importantly, it is high time we understood that we do not have any NDC Speaker of Parliament. No we don’t! We have a Spokesperson who traveled in the back of the NDC to the Office to pursue his own parish agenda and nothing else. You trust them, at your own risk, ”he said in a Facebook post.
He admitted that some party members would be afraid to speak out just to protect themselves and not the party. But accusing them of putting the party first, the politician said: “Hypocrites can choose to remain silent or even condemn us for speaking out, so that they can remain on the good books of the renegades. But I and all of us who are hurt by this act of betrayal will not remain silent, because we fear no one and do not wish to be in their good books. If they can openly defy the leadership and interest of the party and subject us all to public ridicule, then they too can and should be openly denounced. The NDC party is supreme and must be purged.
Speak, we can and we must! And let no one stand in our way. But, when all is said and done, let us work for the NDC with all our might and might. Don’t turn off your love for the party. Hope must not die. This storm will pass. The NDC will survive and bounce back stronger for victory. So I tell you, be strong! “
