Sack Sam George - Disabled Federation

The Ghana Federation for the Disabled has appealed to President John Dramani Mahama to sack presidential staffer Sam George.

George over the weekend posted on his Facebook wall that the general secretary of the Convention People’s Party (CPP) Ivor Greenstreet “needs an elevation to see the better Ghana agenda.”

Greenstreet, who is a physically challenged person, in a solidarity message at the NDC congress, lashed out heavily at the Mahama-led administration.

“You don’t care,” the CPP face at the NDC congress in Kumasi pointed out to Mahama and his officials. “Nobody is feeling your better Ghana.”

“Currently nobody, I mean nobody is feeling your better Ghana. Continuous ‘dumsor dumsor,’ corruption from top to bottom, left right inside out, and all the challenges you are facing [are] suffocating the Ghanaian people.”

For ridiculing Greenstreet over those comments, the Western regional chairman of the Federation of the Disabled, Samuel Quansah, wants president Mahama to relieve George of his post.

He disclosed that one of its members who had filed to contest for the upcoming district assembly elections has withdrawn for what he described as fear of being verbally abused.

“Members have called me that we should demonstrate against Sam George. The president is doing his best and if people like George will draw him back then I think he should show him where power lies. Government should do something, so we know he [president] is on our side,” Quansah told Starr News’ Emmanuel Ohene Gyan.

“Such an important person, he needs not talk against disabled people. Sam George should be disciplined.”

George has since apologised to the CPP official, but has refused to delete the Facebook post that sparked the controversy.