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Press Release
NPP
December 03, 2014
Stop the Lies Coming From the
Presidency, Mr. President
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has noted the recent
admonition of President John Dramani Mahama for truth in our
political and public discourse and share in his call. He
said this in direct reference to reports on the cocaine
smuggling scandal that has rocked this nation in recent
weeks.
The NPP, on the basis of this call and in the belief that
this call must not remain another of his ordinary talk,
wishes to call on the President to take immediate action to
end the lies coming out of the Presidency.
We wish to focus the President’s attention to the ongoing
Nayele Ametefeh “Cocaine Scandal” and the lies, which have
come out of the Presidency itself. In a desperate attempt by
the Presidency to forcibly and falsely drag the NPP into a
problem created by the authorities themselves, some people
have been paid to go out to do just that.
We particularly call on the President to immediately call to
order, his appointed Communications Consultant, Samuel
George, who has been giving a special assignment by the
Presidency to, by all means, pull the NPP into this matter.
It was not the NPP which gave the confessed cocaine smuggler
diplomatic access to take drugs to the UK.
Yet, in the past few days the young man has been on a lying
spree spreading all manner of lies even though he continues
to be exposed by the facts. It is a mark of the kind of
leadership of His Excellency John Dramani Mahama that he
will continue to make Samuel George his main frontline
spokesperson when repeatedly Sam George is exposed to be a
liar.
Samuel George, a known Communications Consultant of the
President, before and after the arrest of one Mohammed
Alamid Dawood, put out various lies on his Facebook wall and
on various radio stations.
Sam George, who is paid by Ghanaian taxpayers, went on radio
to desperately link this Alhaji Dawood to the New Patriotic
Party. He claimed that Alhaji Dawood works with KELM
Engineering, which was one of the contractors used by the
NPP administration in the construction of the Jubilee House,
the seat of the Presidency today. He went on to say,
therefore, Alhaji Dawood was a financier of the NPP.
This was pointed out to him as a blatant lie but he
continued to lie and was encouraged by the Presidency to do
so.
KELM, the company whose reputation Samuel George consciously
run down on numerous platforms, has since issued a denial,
carried in the state-owned Daily Graphic of Monday 1st
December.
The denial has established the fact that KELM was set up in
2009, when the NDC was in power and, therefore, could not
have worked on the Jubilee House under the NPP
administration as claimed by Samuel George. The NPP left
office on January 7, 2009. Indeed, the Company went ahead to
indicate that Mr. Dawood only joined the KELM in December
2013 and left this year.
We have attached a copy of the publication of the Daily
Graphic.
The President cannot pretend he is not aware of the
deliberate lies being spewed in his name by the likes of Sam
George. It is a mark of dishonesty on the part of the First
Gentleman of the land.
It was this same Samuel George who came out from the
Presidency passionately to say that there was collaboration
between the Narcotics Control Board (NACOB) and the British
authorities in the arrest of Nayele Ametefeh, even before
NACOB issued the statement that later turned out to be
false.
Aside the initial statement put out by the NACOB, there was
a conscious attempt by the Presidency to force down this
falsehood into the minds of Ghanaians. This attempt was led
by no other than the same Samuel George, the President’s
Communication Consultant, who on various platforms, most
notably on Adom FM on Wednesday 19th November, categorically
stated that NACOB had collaborated with the British Security
on the arrest of Nayele. He proceeded to even 'educate'
listeners on how sting operations were conducted.
Samuel George, by his actions and lies, continues to expose
the desperate attempt by the Presidency to forcibly pull the
NPP into this Cocaine scandal. The Presidency should focus
on dealing with the actual issues of drugs being carted
through diplomatic access (whether VVIP or VIP) and stop
paying and encouraging shameless propagandists to lie about
the opposition and other institutions.
Sadly, this is just another evidence that in John Dramani
Mahama we have a leader without ideas or solutions for the
problems facing the country; a leader who still believes
that he can continue to use lies and propaganda to deceive
the good people of Ghana. This is irresponsible and a nasty
form of governance.
Mr President, if you are indeed decent then do the decent
thing by distancing yourself from the lies of Sam George.
The President must once and for all demonstrate to the
ordinary Ghanaian that he has the capacity or potential to
take his own words seriously.
The ball is in your court, Mr. President. Start with your
Communications Consultant. Take the lead and the Nation will
follow.
Signed
Anthony Abayifaa Karbo
(Deputy Communications Director)
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