{"id":589123,"date":"2019-01-31T13:56:44","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T13:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n\t\t\n<p><strong>Sam George<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Myjoyonline.com has obtained video footage depicting NDC Member of Parliament for Ningo Prampram, Samuel George, being heckled and attacked by masked men wielding\u00a0guns\u00a0in the ongoing Ayawaso West Wuogo"},"modified":"2019-01-31T13:56:44","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T13:56:44","slug":"video-ndc-mp-sam-george-slapped-beaten-during-ayawaso-by-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/01\/31\/video-ndc-mp-sam-george-slapped-beaten-during-ayawaso-by-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: NDC MP Sam George Slapped, Beaten During Ayawaso By-Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Sam George<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Myjoyonline.com has obtained video footage depicting NDC Member of Parliament for Ningo Prampram, Samuel George, being heckled and attacked by masked men wielding\u00a0guns\u00a0in the ongoing Ayawaso West Wuogon constituency.<\/p>\n<p>Early Thursday morning,\u00a0Sam Dzata George posted on Facebook that he had just been assaulted by several members of the NPP Invisible Forces. He claims that they were wearing NSC shirts.<\/p>\n<p>In the video, about 50-60 men are seen chasing the MP as they hurled\u00a0insults and slapped him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[George] is traumatized. When I went to his home he was in the bedroom and couldn\u2019t even move. I don\u2019t understand why people would do this,\u201d\u00a0Chairman of the NDC, Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, told Joy FM.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8dWjWqO112M?start=116&amp;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p><strong>Background<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Just hours into the\u00a0by-election,\u00a0some armed men clothed in National Security apparel stormed\u00a0the\u00a0La Bawalashie Presby polling station. Eyewitnesses say the armed men fired shots and attacked some agents believed to be opposition NDC agents.<\/p>\n<p>The shots lasted 20 minutes.\u00a0Police intervened as the\u00a0attacks continued.<\/p>\n<p>The men, according to eyewitnesses, also stormed the home of NDC candidate, Delali Kwesi Brempong.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013<strong>myjoyonline<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam George Myjoyonline.com has obtained video footage depicting NDC Member of Parliament for Ningo Prampram, Samuel George, being heckled and attacked by masked men wielding\u00a0guns\u00a0in the ongoing Ayawaso West Wuogon constituency. Early Thursday morning,\u00a0Sam Dzata George posted on Facebook that he had just been assaulted by several members of the NPP Invisible Forces. He claims [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":589124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-589123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Video: NDC MP Sam George Slapped, Beaten During Ayawaso By-Election - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/01\/31\/video-ndc-mp-sam-george-slapped-beaten-during-ayawaso-by-election\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Video: NDC MP Sam George Slapped, Beaten During Ayawaso By-Election - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Sam George Myjoyonline.com has obtained video footage depicting NDC Member of Parliament for Ningo Prampram, Samuel George, being heckled and attacked by masked men wielding\u00a0guns\u00a0in the ongoing Ayawaso West Wuogon constituency. 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