Sam George in trouble over LGBTQ + allegations

General news for Saturday, March 13, 2021

Source: My new GH

03/13/2021

The Ningo-Prampram branch of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) appears to have disowned its MP (MP), Sam George Nartey, following his claims that some anonymous lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex (LGBTQI) have has vowed to topple him in the party’s next parliamentary primaries if he continues to attack them.

According to a statement released by Deputy Constituency Communications Officer Shehu Usman Mohammed, Samuel George Nartey’s claim that unknown LGBTQI people contacted him on his phone to warn him that if he continues to be loud against their operations in the country, it was, however, one of his usual activities. that seeks attention and should be ignored.

The deputy communications officer, in the statement, said this claim could not be true and was just a cunning move by the MP to get sympathy votes to be voted ahead of the upcoming primaries. .

“We have taken note of the Hon. Sam George, Member of Parliament for Ningo-Prampram, that he received a call from an unknown person who [LGBTQ people] use their financial power to ensure that it [Sam George] He may lose in the next parliamentary primary elections in his constituency so that he can no longer be heard in the country.

“The MP reportedly made this statement on GhOne TV last week. This statement by our MP was posted on websites like Vanguard.com and modernghana.com. We find this claim to be based on mischief and a simple lie calculated to tarnish the image of anyone who challenges the MP in our next primary in the eyes of all good-hearted citizens in the riding.

“Obviously the pretense is to ensure that those who will not be able to see through this lie come to the conclusion in the next party constituency primaries that the Hon. Sam George’s opponent is funded by the LGBTQ group. In doing so, the vast majority of Ghanaians in the constituency who are fiercely against this type of devaluing of sexual orientation will automatically rally to his cause against anyone who disputes it, ”said Shehu Mohammed.

The statement continued, “You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to see through the inferior tactics employed by the MP. Why will LGBTQ people only target him when he is not the only MP to speak out against their attempt to have their activities in Ghana recognized and legalized? It is a fact that some MPs on both sides of the political divide, including the Hon. Haruna Iddrisu, Head of the NDC Caucus in Parliament and Member of Parliament for Tamale South, the Hon. Mahama Ayariga, who is MP for Bawku Central, the Hon. Clement Apaak, MP for Builsa Sud, the Hon. John Ntim Fordjour, Member of Parliament for Assin-South, and the Honorable Adwoa Sarfo, Member of Parliament for Dome-Kwabenya, have all spoken out publicly against LGBTQ attempts to gain a foothold in Ghana. Wide canvas. Why didn’t they get the same call from LGBTQ threatening to make sure they lose in their next primaries either?

“Hon. Sam George should stop lying and trying to smear honest people who want to challenge him. We call on Ghanaians, especially NDC supporters in Ningo-Prampram constituency to ignore our MP’s claim, which is a figment of his own imagination. There is no way that a group such as LGBTQ will play a secretive or open role in party primaries in the constituency because the next constituency primaries will be challenged, as has always been the case, by constituencies. men and women of high moral character. standards that will cringe at the very idea. When the time comes, that any citizen who wishes to participate in the primaries do so without leaving or hindering. He or she should not be put off by the Hon. Sam George’s false statement, ”the statement concluded.

Shehu Mohammed’s press release follows the burning anger of some NDC branch leaders in the constituency, who said they deserted their MP even before the party began its reorganization in the region, for his alleged derogatory comments suggesting that they, as delegates, could be influenced by the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex (LGBTQI) community to vote against him in the upcoming primaries.

The controversial Ningo-Prampram MP last weekend made a questionable claim that his political future had been threatened after he recently condemned LGBTQ supporters and their financiers in the country.

According to him, after making his comments on television on Friday, February 19, he received a call the next day from an unknown person who told him that they [LGBTQ], would use their financial power to ensure that he, Sam George, loses the next parliamentary primaries he could play in his constituency.

“You know when I first spoke last week Friday on a TV network, over the weekend; I got a call and that’s what pissed me off and made me do everything to fight hard. Someone told me that look, did I [Sam George] know how rich the LGBTQI community is and that they will bring money and make sure that the platform I have as an MP gives me the right to speak… they will meet me at my primaries ”, MP GhOne told TV last Friday.

But in a sharp response to the claim they called fictitious, some of the branch executives who spoke angrily to this portal said Mr. Sam George already knew he didn’t have any opportunity to win. the next parliamentary primaries in the constituency, hence the search for public sympathy.

They said his early acceptance of defeat ahead of the primaries came as no surprise to them as they are all aware that he did not win the last parliamentary primaries as the party illegally and shamefully manipulated the process to impose on him.

“He knows we won’t vote for him even if he engages the devil himself in a fight. And he also knows that he did not win the last primary and that he was instructed by the same party that manipulated the process to favor him as an interim parliamentary candidate. He knows that we voted for him in the general elections just for the good of the party, ”noted angrily a group of residents of Dawhenya.

Some of them noted that his claim that the LGBTQI community threatened to fund someone to overthrow him during the primaries is a direct attack and outright 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 sufficient resources and does not need any financial support from anyone or the LGBTQ community. to be able to beat him (Sam George). His opponent has the financial muscle to beat him any day, anytime.

“To suggest that his opponent, who is married with children and an avowed anti-LGBTQ would condescend so basely to accept evil money from such a despicable group to fund his politics, is disrespectful and rude to say the least. cannot continue to host such a character. silently. The constituency of Ningo-Prampram deserves a decent leader as an MP, ”they said.

A visit to old and new Ningo as well as Prampram revealed that most voters are unhappy with their MP’s fierce statement, describing it as an act of cowardice and mere attention-seeking since almost all MPs speak out against ungodly LGBTQI activities. community in Ghana.

“He is not the only MP to oppose the perverse activities of gays and lesbians in the country. Many of his colleagues spoke out against them boldly and we have never heard any of them say that gays and lesbians threatened them. Why him alone? one of the residents asked.

Some of them accused him of setting up an evil agenda ahead of the primaries to mark his opponent as one who would have received support from the LGBTQI community if he were to be defeated in the next parliamentary primaries.

“What our MP is trying to do is set an agenda to paint his opponent, who he believes will win the next parliamentary primaries, like someone who accepted gay and lesbian support should (the opponent) beat in the next primary which very obvious. He paints his opponent all the time and we were silent, but this time we don’t sit down and allow him to continue. Enough is enough, ”said one of them.