Sam George must apologise publicly - Ningo Chief

The Parliamentary candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) for the Ningo-Prampram Constituency of the Greater Accra Region, Samuel George Nartey, is obviously ill at ease following a week’s ultimatum given to him by the Ningo Traditional Council to publicly withdraw his ‘unsavory statement’ against its leader and render an apology.

Sam George, with bottles of Whisky, reportedly went to the council together with some executives of the NDC with intent to apologise for his comment against the Acting President of the Ningo Traditional Area, Nene Karnor Atiapah III, but they were turned away by the chiefs and the `elders of the council. They have asked the NDC candidate to apologise via the same medium he used to castigate the traditional ruler.

Nene Karnor Atiapah III, who doubles as Mankralo of the area, disclosed to DAILY GUIDE that he could only forgive Mr Sam George, a presidential staffer, if he rendered unqualified apology in the media.

He said Sam George also known as Dzata, paid a courtesy call at his residence in Ningo together with some NDC executives and sympathizers with intent to apologise to him but he could not take such an apology done in secrecy since the ‘unsavory remark’ against him was made in the mass media.

According to him, failure on the part of Sam George to apologise on air with a publication in theDAILY GUIDE, the traditional council would not hesitate to sanction him.

“We have given him a time frame to apologise to me and he told us he only goes to the radio station on Tuesdays and Thursdays so we are waiting. He has by the close of the week to render the apology,” he added.


It would be recalled that Nene Atiapah III in an interview with DAILY GUIDE, described the ECG pre-paid meters as money-sucking equipment which would worsen the already economic hardships being faced by the people in his traditional area since his people do not have any meaningful jobs. He therefore wanted the post-paid meters not to be substituted with the pre-paid ones.

The above interview apparently, angered Sam George and descended heavily on Nene Atiapah, whom he (George) called his biological uncle, describing him as a lawless leader whose view does not represent that of the people of the Ningo Traditional Area.

“Chiefs are supposed to be agents of development but basically what my uncle and Mankralo has said is to encourage people to be lawless because at the end of the day, pre-paid meters are going to be installed in this country and nobody can stand in the way of government policy. If you have a chief who will tell you to flout government policy, I don’t think that is the way chiefs are supposed to behave and I disagree with my chief on this,” Mr George remarked.

The response by the NDC activist provoked the elders and the chiefs of the area have asked him to render the apology publicly.

The council intended to ban the NDC parliamentary candidate from any interaction with the traditional rulers and further threatened to boycott any event which would be held by the NDC in the area.