Retract Lexus gift allegation or face consequence- Sam George to NPP activist

Minister for Communication and Digital Innovation, Samuel Nartey George is demanding a restraction and apology of speculations made against him regarding a vehicle gift.

According to Sam George, he has been falsely accused of a Lexus gift by New Patriotic Party (NPP) Activist, P.K Sarpong.

The minister is demanding an  immediate removal of the said false publication from PK Sarpong’s Facebook wall.

Also, he is demanding a public retraction of the statement, issued in the same manner and to the same audience as the original publication and an unqualified apology.

In a letter from Sam George’s lawyers, they stated that “Our client has brought to our attention a publication made by you on your Facebook page, in which you falsely allege that Hon. Samuel Nartey George received a Lexus vehicle as a gift-purportedly in violation of a directive issued by H.E. John Dramani Mahama to his ministers. This statement is categorically false.”

The added “You are fully aware that your publication is devoid of truth. Nonetheless, you have proceeded to make this misinformation public, with the apparent intention of tarnishing the hard-earned reputation of our client. Such conduct is defamatory and injurious.”

On Facebook, a social media user and NPP activist, P.K. Sarpong alleged that the Ningo-Prampram MP had received the Lexus as a gift, in violation of President John Mahama’s recently launched Code of Conduct.

The directive frowns upon the acceptance of gifts by government appointees, as the President cautioned that it could compromise their integrity in office.

In the Facebook post, P.K. Sarpong claimed that Mr Sam George had been using an “unregistered vehicle” which is a “top of the range Lexus” vehicle, which he said was “a gift from someone to him.” 

“Dear President John Dramani Mahama, Let me repeat, this unregistered Lexus your appointee is using is a gift to him!,” he wrote. 

He added that he was keeping the gifter anonymous for now. “chest for now.”

However, Sam George described the social media publication as false and has subsequently, through his lawyers, stated that the publication by P.K. Sarpong was “categorically false.”

On the back of this, he is demanding that the author desist from making any more of what he considers defamatory comments against him, issue an apology, or face legal action.