Ningo Prampram MP, Sam George, has been captured on video engaging in a banter with some soldiers over the assault launched on him by some security personnel during the Ayawaso West Wuoguon by-election.
In the video sighted by The Independent Ghana, the legislator is seen and heard questioning the presence of military escorts at an election ground during the Assin North by-election held on Tuesday, June 27, 2023, and telling them not to repeat the 2019 incident.
“It’s only the President and the Vice President and of late, the Attorney General who use the military. Even the speaker was denied military service so who else will use the military? Or the Minister of Defense? Are you with the Defense Ministry?
“Chief, we don’t want any basabasa [to wit we don’t want any chaos]. We don’t want any Ayawaso West Wuoguon. You see, today I’m not wearing any tactica I’m wearing civilian,” he said and appealed to the military men not to facilitate any chaos.
The outspoken NDC MP was assaulted by some security personnel believed to be members of the SWAT team of the Ghana Police Service at the Ayawaso West Wuogon Constituency, in January 2019 during a by-election to elect a replacement for the then deceased MP for the area, Emmanuel Kwabena Kyeremateng Agyarko who died on November 21, 2018.
Mr. Sam George was seen in a video shouting at the security personnel in a parked vehicle, claiming they wanted to kill a man in his house.
It was during the exchange that one of the security men stepped out of the parked pick-up truck of security personnel to slap the MP.
He was then punched by another person in uniform suspected to be part of the security team.
The video which went viral on social media indicated that the attack on the MP resulted in fisticuffs between the police and supporters of the NDC.
There was also a shooting incident which resulted in the withdrawal of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), from partaking in the by-election.
The party also withdrew its polling agents and observers from the area after consulting with its parliamentary candidate.
Some National Security Operatives were alleged to have fired shots at a polling centre at La Bawaleshie, injuring about six persons believed to be NDC supporters.