Former New Patriotic Party (NPP) presidential staffer Dennis Miracles Aboagye has publicly called out Communications Minister Samuel Nartey George, telling him his combative opposition-era style is incompatible with the responsibilities of high office.
In a Facebook post that drew wide attention on Monday, Aboagye directed a blunt message at George, popularly known as Sam George, who has been trading sharp words online with NPP’s Akosua Manu, also known as Kozie, over the government’s planned SIM card re-registration exercise.
“For Christ sake, you no dey opposition anymore. Stop dey fight the girls, Akosua Manu, and focus on the job,” Aboagye wrote.
He went further, reminding the minister that public accountability now flows in only one direction. “You owe Kozie every explanation and in a very respectful and decorous manner, because you are in public service. You forget yourself. You are no longer in opposition. You have a responsibility to the state and every individual in it.”
Aboagye argued that the minister cannot hold a cabinet portfolio and continue to behave as a partisan combatant. “You cannot hold that office and still be as you were in opposition. You must drop one,” he said.
The rebuke centres on the unresolved controversy surrounding the Communications Ministry’s plan to conduct a fresh SIM registration, which Sam George has insisted will be more rigorous and technology-driven than the 2022 exercise conducted under the previous administration. Akosua Manu, speaking on Asaase Radio’s The Forum, questioned why George, who had fiercely opposed the earlier registration process citing alleged misconduct by former officials, is now urging citizens to register without offering any explanation or apology for his prior stance.
Aboagye echoed that concern on accountability grounds. “The people simply want to know in clear terms why you need to do another SIM registration. You must humbly and honestly make the people understand and also admit every follow-up question they may have,” he wrote.
He concluded with a pointed reminder about the obligations that come with ministerial office. “You can’t fight them and you can’t attack them. You have lost that right the moment you accepted this role. Do better, Bros.”
Sam George has announced that the new SIM registration exercise, framed as a comprehensive first-time registration rather than a re-registration, is scheduled to begin on July 1, with a technology-driven rollout intended to eliminate long queues and strengthen identity verification.
