{"id":741003,"date":"2022-01-08T20:31:36","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T20:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/08\/investigate-sammy-awuku-over-gigantic-billboard-campaign-in-akuapem-north\/"},"modified":"2022-01-08T20:31:36","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T20:31:36","slug":"investigate-sammy-awuku-over-gigantic-billboard-campaign-in-akuapem-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/08\/investigate-sammy-awuku-over-gigantic-billboard-campaign-in-akuapem-north\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigate Sammy Awuku Over Gigantic Billboard Campaign In Akuapem North"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p class=\"ql-align-justify\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/ea37dc18fbb64af2bbef7cd5782873d6\"\/>Barely six months after taking office as the Director-General of the National Lottery Authority (NLA), Sammy Awuku has started sponsoring his campaign for election as parliamentary candidate for Akuapem North Constituency in the Eastern Region. Giant billboards have been mounted throughout the capital to excite public curiosity about his intention.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ql-align-justify\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">He might have played innocent to being masterminded to this grand agenda of targeting the incumbent Member of Parliament, Nana Dokua Asiamah Adjei. But it would be a fool&#8217;s dream to think that delegates of the New Patriotic Party cannot see through this.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ql-align-justify\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Serious questions have been raised about the billboards, especially when\u00a0Sammy Awuku has not been noted for mounting any in the constituency. In an era where there has been inquisition into how some appointees of government get to fund their political campaign shortly after taking office, Sammy Awuku had caused a spectacle for the opposition party; National Democratic Congress (NDC) to continue bastardising the government with unfounded allegations of &#8220;unexplained wealth&#8221; or simply, corruption.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ql-align-justify\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Strangely, Sammy Awuku failed to correct his so-called admirers who he claimed sponsored the advertisement; despite the acknowledgement that it was highly inappropriate. A brief has been making rounds shortly after the image of the billboard went viral but Sammy Awuku did not condemn the act.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ql-align-justify\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">The chameleonic character Sammy Awuku had clothed himself amid this incident is rather disappointing. It would be disastrous for the NPP to sit aloof for this to continue.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ql-align-justify\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">A full scale investigation must be carried into this, and more especially for the President to begin an evaluation of the work on Sammy Awuku and other young appointees who might have taken government positions\/offices as means of enriching themselves to contest elections.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ql-align-justify\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">The more troubling matter in this development is the fact that Members of 8th Parliament are just a year older in office after being sworn-in on January 7, 2021. Sammy Awuku is simply preying on his appointment to make an entry into the local politics in the constituency at such a premature period.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ql-align-justify\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">The party is nowhere close to determining a date to open nominations for interested persons to file for election at the parliamentary levels, and as such this early signal from the camps of Sammy Awuku could hurt the party. It would be right for the party leadership to call him to order and better, interrogate him for what is happening.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: Blind_Justice (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nNDC<br \/>\nNana Dokua Asiamah Adjei<br \/>\n National Democratic Congress<br \/>\nSammy Awuku<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barely six months after taking office as the Director-General of the National Lottery Authority (NLA), Sammy Awuku has started sponsoring his campaign for election as parliamentary candidate for Akuapem North Constituency in the Eastern Region. Giant billboards have been mounted throughout the capital to excite public curiosity about his intention.\u00a0 He might have played innocent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":741004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-741003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741003","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=741003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}