{"id":594327,"date":"2019-02-25T17:49:29","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T17:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n<!-- \/1002554\/MJO_Announcement_250X340 -->\n\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">The Ningo-Prampram lawmaker\u00a0has rejected the characterisation of the Azorka Boys as a vigilante group, arguing "},"modified":"2019-02-25T17:49:29","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T17:49:29","slug":"azorka-boys-community-devt-group-not-party-militia-sam-george","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/02\/25\/azorka-boys-community-devt-group-not-party-militia-sam-george\/","title":{"rendered":"Azorka Boys community dev&#8217;t group, not party militia &#8211; Sam George"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<!-- \/1002554\/MJO_Announcement_250X340 --><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">The Ningo-Prampram lawmaker\u00a0has rejected the characterisation of the Azorka Boys as a vigilante group, arguing they are\u00a0into community development.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">Samuel Nartey George\u00a0made this claim Monday when he appeared as a witness before the Emile Short Commission investigating the violence that marred the\u00a0Ayawaso by-elections on January 31.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/1002554\/Myjoyonline\/mjo-article-leaderboard_mid-1 --><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">His testimony before the Commission has become necessary following media footages which captured him being assaulted by men said to be National Security operatives but whom he claims are members of the governing New Patriotic Party\u2019s invincible forces.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"260px\" src=\"https:\/\/clip.afrad.io\/?clipId=LymmwHPqn3BmxP2B4\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/1002554\/Myjoyonline\/mjo-article-leaderboard_mid-2 --><\/p>\n<p>In September last year, opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) General Secretary Johnson Asiedu Nketia\u00a0defended the fresh emergence of party militia\u00a0within the party.<\/p>\n<p>He told Joy News&#8217; Kwesi Parker-Wilson, the emergence of groups like Hawks is &#8220;an appropriate natural response&#8221; to the failure of the Akufo-Addo government to rein in its party militia.<\/p>\n<p>Related:\u00a0Asiedu Nketia &#8220;fully endorses&#8221; NDC Hawks, Lions and Dragons<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanamma.com\/2019\/02\/7654026000036_1740590905667.JPG\" style=\"border-style:solid; border-width:3px; height:415px; width:600px\"\/><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/1002554\/Myjoyonline\/mjo-article-leaderboard_mid --><\/p>\n<p><b>Johnson Asiedu Nketia<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I endorse it fully&#8221;, the NDC mastermind refused to condemn the Hawks who emerged at the Ashanti regional congress. Other groups include &#8216;The Dragons&#8217; based in the Brong Ahafo region and &#8216;The Lions&#8217; based in the Eastern region.<\/p>\n<p>But <span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">Mr. George said those who describe the Azorka Boys as a party militia group are misinformed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/1002554\/Myjoyonline\/mjo-article-leaderboard_mid --><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">\u201cI can state for a fact without equivocation that the party I belong to, the NDC, does not have any vigilante group,\u201d he stated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">However, he said, \u201cThe NDC is a corporate organisation which has procedures for integrating members. These groups have not undergone such processes to be integrated into the structures of the party to be recognised.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">According to him\u00a0the right characterisation of the Azoka boys is wrong.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/1002554\/Myjoyonline\/mjo-article-leaderboard_mid --><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">\u201cI will refer to them as a community-based organization. I witnessed the commissioning of a borehole project by the Azorka Boys that has been done based on community engagements in the area,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async>(function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(d.getElementById(id))return;js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.10&appId=1559506714349564\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}(document,'script','facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><\/p>\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>The Ningo-Prampram lawmaker\u00a0has rejected the characterisation of the Azorka Boys as a vigilante group, arguing they are\u00a0into community development. Samuel Nartey George\u00a0made this claim Monday when he appeared as a witness before the Emile Short Commission investigating the violence that marred the\u00a0Ayawaso by-elections on January 31. His testimony before the Commission has become necessary following [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":594328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-594327","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>Azorka Boys community dev&#039;t group, not party militia - Sam George - 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\/02\/25\/azorka-boys-community-devt-group-not-party-militia-sam-george\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Azorka Boys community dev&#039;t group, not party militia - Sam George - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The Ningo-Prampram lawmaker\u00a0has rejected the characterisation of the Azorka Boys as a vigilante group, arguing they are\u00a0into community development. 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