{"id":1248574,"date":"2022-11-11T04:46:16","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T04:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/11\/sammy-gyamfi-retracts-apologises-to-samira-bawumia\/"},"modified":"2022-11-11T04:46:16","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T04:46:16","slug":"sammy-gyamfi-retracts-apologises-to-samira-bawumia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/11\/sammy-gyamfi-retracts-apologises-to-samira-bawumia\/","title":{"rendered":"Sammy Gyamfi retracts, apologises to Samira Bawumia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Sammy-Gyamfi-2.png\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\">\n<p>Communication Director for the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Sammy Gyamfi has retracted and apologised for a malicious allegation he levelled against the Second Lady of Ghana, Samira Bawumia.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Sammy Gyamfi, in a live interview session at the studios of Neat FM, a subsidiary of the Despite Group, claimed that the Second Lady had a dedicated brand new Toyota Landcruiser purposely for carrying around \u2018her makeup artiste\u2019 and makeup.<\/p>\n<p>In a sharp U-turn, following a letter, served by Sarkodie Baffour Awuah and Associates, lawyers for the Second Lady,\u00a0 to demand a formal retraction of and apology for the allegations, Mr. Sammy Gyamfi confessed to having peddled falsehood against Mrs. Bawumia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Second Lady\u2019s convoy does not have one brand new Landcruiser that carries her makeup kit and artiste. There is no such arrangement, so it\u2019s only fair that I retract and apologise. I am sorry\u201d,\u00a0 said a remorseful Sammy Gyamfi.<\/p>\n<p>Sammy Gyamfi, in recent times, has been slapped with many law suits for defamation and slander against prominent political figures.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DISCLAIMER: <\/strong>The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Communication Director for the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Sammy Gyamfi has retracted and apologised for a malicious allegation he levelled against the Second Lady of Ghana, Samira Bawumia. Mr. Sammy Gyamfi, in a live interview session at the studios of Neat FM, a subsidiary of the Despite Group, claimed that the Second Lady had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1248576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1248574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1248574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1248574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1248574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1248574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}