{"id":1111751,"date":"2022-06-06T08:30:50","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T08:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/06\/despite-being-ndc-i-did-my-national-service-in-aliu-mahamas-office-sam-george-explains-politics\/"},"modified":"2022-06-06T08:30:50","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T08:30:50","slug":"despite-being-ndc-i-did-my-national-service-in-aliu-mahamas-office-sam-george-explains-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/06\/despite-being-ndc-i-did-my-national-service-in-aliu-mahamas-office-sam-george-explains-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite Being NDC, I Did My National Service In Aliu Mahama\u2019s Office \u2013 Sam George Explains | Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Ningo Prampram Member of Parliament, Sam Nartey George has revealed how hard work ensured that he was retained as a National Service personnel at the office of former Vice President, Alhaji Aliu Mahama.<\/p>\n<p>The lawmaker narrated that despite completing his first degree in Agric Engineering from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, KNUST, in 2005, it wasn\u2019t until 2007 that he applied to do his service.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in an interview with Deloris Frimpong Manso on the Delay Show, he chronicled his academic history which started in Nigeria where his father was working at the time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI did all my nursery, primary, secondary (education) in Nigeria. It was when I was going to university that my father decided that I should return to Ghana citing rise in cultism and strikes in Nigerian universities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I completed KNUST, I didn\u2019t do my National Service immediately, I completed in 2005 but I did my service in 2007,\u201d he said explaining that he had returned to Nigeria hoping to find a job and start post-varsity life there but he was unsuccessful.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(In 2007) I applied for the National Service and I was posted to Office of the President. When we got there, we were 10 and were split \u2013 five to President Kufuor\u2019s office and the other to Vice President Aliu Mahama\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey asked for political affiliation and all that and I stated clearly that I was NDC but I was good at my job, everybody wants a good person,\u201d he stressed.<\/p>\n<p>Aliu Mahama served as Ghana\u2019s Vice President between January 2001 to January 2009 under the John Agyekum Kufuor administration.<\/p>\n<h3><strong\/><\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"peace_black_text_4\">Source: ghanaweb.com<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"clear:both\">\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"peace_red_text_1\">Disclaimer<\/span>: <span class=\"peace_ash_text_1\">Opinions expressed here are those of the writers and do not reflect those of Peacefmonline.com. Peacefmonline.com accepts no responsibility legal or otherwise for their accuracy of . 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