Minister of Communications, Digital Technology and Innovation, Samuel Nartey George
The Minister of Communications, Digital Technology and Innovation, Samuel Nartey George, has shared an experience that, perhaps, was the waking point with regard the magnitude of the job at hand when his own mother called crying to him that she had been scammed.
Speaking in an interview with JoyNews on April 15, 2025, the minister recounted how his mother was scammed by Mobile Money (MoMo) fraudsters who used his name to scam her, moments after his appointment by President John Dramani Mahama.
He said that the fraudsters managed to steal a whopping GH¢24,000 from his mother’s MoMo account.
“In my poor mother’s case, just after I was appointed minister, they called her and said, ‘Oh, because of your son, now we want to protect your Mobile Money and so verify your PIN.’ I’m telling you, my mother — she’s alive.
“They stole her GH¢24,000. And I told her, I said, ‘Ah, but when they called you, why didn’t you call me to confirm?’” he said.
The minister, who is also the Member of Parliament for Ningo-Prampram, made this disclosure while speaking on investigations he would be conducting into the issue of MoMo fraud in the country.
He indicated that there is a likelihood that staff of the Mobile Money companies conspired with fraudsters to scam Ghanaians.
“This is real… and so the question again is, are there real instances of connivance by staff of some of these Mobile Money operators?”
Asked whether he was looking into the possibility of staff of MoMo operators being involved in scamming Ghanaians, Sam George said, “It’s all investigations that will happen. Like I said after the meeting, we are going to be asking them to provide us with reports on the measures they are taking to protect their customers.”
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