'Those who justified National Security attacking me are today slapping a policeman' – Sam George

The Member of Parliament for Ningo-Prampram Constituency and Minister of Communication, Digital Technology, and Innovation, Sam George, has reacted to the alleged battle connected a constabulary serviceman by the Minority Leader of Parliament, Alexander Afenyo-Markin.

In an X station dated May 6, 2025, Sam George pointed retired what helium perceives arsenic a treble modular portion sharing a video of the battle helium endured by National Security officers during the convulsive Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election successful 2019 nether the erstwhile New Patriotic Party government.

“The precise radical who said my words justified these attacks by 2 'national security' operatives are contiguous slapping a policeman who was simply doing his job?

“Hmmm. This beingness is genuinely a cycle. We commune for agelong beingness and bully health. Cheers,” helium added.

The Member of Parliament for Effutu and Minority Leader successful Parliament, Alexander Kwamina Afenyo-Markin, has drawn wide nationalist attraction pursuing an incidental involving him and a Ghana Police Service serviceman during the #SaveTheJudiciary objection connected Monday.

The incidental allegedly showed the lawmaker, visibly angry, raising his manus to onslaught a constabulary serviceman connected the caput portion lasting down a barricade.

However, the lawmaker, successful his defense, clarified that his actions were a effect to provocation, claiming the constabulary serviceman struck him arsenic helium attempted to articulation his colleagues astatine Parliament House.

The Effutu MP further explained the carnal interaction of the officer’s strike, “The interaction dazed me, and I was visibly shaken and abbreviated of breath. In that moment, I spontaneously protested his conduct, asking wherefore helium would question to harm me.

“The inspector facilitating my access, on with different officers, rapidly intervened and assisted maine into the restricted area, wherever I had to thin against the partition astatine the entranceway of Parliament House to forestall myself from collapsing,” helium stated.

The MP added, “A nationalist work unit subordinate from Parliament, whom I know, approached and offered maine water. Two CID officers from Parliament besides checked connected maine and assisted maine to a adjacent information restroom, wherever I laic connected a seat to stabilize.”

Subsequently, the Ghana Police Service has extended an invitation to the lawmaker to assistance successful their probe of the incident.

According to the police, pursuing a reappraisal of the incident, the work has written to the Speaker of Parliament, requesting the merchandise of Alexander Afenyo-Markin to assistance successful the ongoing investigation.

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