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[ 2015-02-20 ]

Who The Hell Is Sam George? I'll Descend On Him So Bad.....Vows Koku As He Re-ignites Spat With NDC
Koku Anyidoho, Deputy General Secretary for the
ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) has vow
to silence certain elements in the party who are
quick to run people down at the least
provocation.

To him, members of the Government's Communications
Team, especially Sam George, bent on formenting
trouble for President John Dramani Mahama and his
administration by launching vitupertaive attacks
on virtually everyone in the country must be
“fried”.

Speaking in an interview with Adakabre
Frimpong-Manso, host of Me Man Nti, a late
afternoon political discourse programme on Neat
100.9 FM, the former Director of Communications at
the Presidency during the late John Evan Atta
Mills' regime, stated that the erratic power
outage currently being experienced in the country
is a matter of concern for all and “no one
should think they can insult their way out of
it”. To him, it is not about how to tame the
babies with sharp teeth in the NDC, but "about
individuals with circumspection".

His comments come on the heels of a barrage of
invectives fired at the opposition New Patriotic
Party (NPP) and technocrats for the various roles
they are believed to have played in the run-up to
the current energy challenges.

Presidential Staffer, Sam George, is reported to
have blamed the current energy crisis on the
incompetence of engineers at the Volta River
Authority (VRA), accusing them of receiving 10,000
dollars and other juicy perks yet failing to
deliver on their core mandate. He is said to have
also dismissed claims that the current energy
crisis could be as a result of coincidence.

“The engineers at the VRA have so many questions
to answer as far as this energy crisis is
concerned...there's a deliberate sabotage
somewhere in the chain to ensure that some of
these equipment don’t work,” he claimed on
Atinka FM’s AM Drive, Tuesday.

Sam George also wondered why engineers working on
a private initiave, the Asogli plant, were able to
fix the plant within a week when it developed a
fault, but same cannot be said of other power
plants managed by VRA engineers, which have not
been fixed for almost a year of now.

“It is the duty of the VRA to advise Government
on contingency plans in order to prevent needless
crisis but [they] are not doing so,” he
lamented.

But Koku Anyidoho is of the conviction that the
spewing of such offensive words to further provoke
Ghanaians are not needful at this present time and
believed the party and government can handle the
situation better than that.

"...I had to protect the President and i did that
(when i was Mills' spokesperson), but i never
disrespected any of you....Who is Sam George, i am
very angry in my soul now?" he asked rhetorically
at which the host replied, "he is a product of the
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
and he's undertaking a law programme now."




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Sam George
A clearly incensed Anyidoho then retorted, "so he
can insult everybody? I'll tell you today that
President Mahama does not support Sam
George...President Mahama is fed up with Sam
George...NDC would not be in power for hundred
years but we have all these small boys like Sam
George just insulting everybody. You go and insult
the engineers from VRA, you go and insult Ofori
Atta; who the Hell are you, Sam George?”.

“…now that i'm the Deputy General Secretary of
the party, i'm waiting for that Sam George boy.
Me, I will deal with him…if he is a boy or a
man, tomorrow morning he should take me on and I
will descend on him so bad he would not know where
he is coming from...people like Sam George should
be fried...he has no history,” Koko Anydoho,
popularly known as ‘The Bull’ fumed Neat 100.9
FM.

He however pleaded with the people of Ghana to
exercise patience with the Mahama-led
Administration as the ruling party is not sleeping
on the dumsor crisis abd is trying frantically to
solve the crisis.

"....me, i'm on my knees and i'm begging them
(Ghanaians). The president also is begging
them...he has said we have a problem and that in
due time, we will manage the crisis....as a party
and as a government, we are begging them...we'll
see how we can manage these things," he concluded.

Source - Peacefmonline



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