Ghanaian politician and NDC’s Member of Parliament for Ningo Prampram, Hon. Sam George has disclosed that after graduating from the university at KNUST in 2005, he planned on entering the Army to stage a coup against ex-President John Kufuor when he was in office.
Sam George who recounted his hatred for Mr. Kufuor claimed on live radio that he felt Mr Kufuor was maltreating late former President Jerry John Rawlings at the time thus he was motivated to want to overthrow him and his government.
Narrating his life’s journey with Giovanni Caleb on 3FM Drive on Wednesday, May 26, monitored by Ghbase.com, he said;
“While in KNUST, I joined the university cadet and I became the master for the cadet.
“My plan was to go into the Army. There were four of us who bought our forms together, the other three are all senior Majors now, one or two of them should become Lieutenant Colonel by the end of this year if everything goes right.
“You may have been calling me Major Sam and not Honourable Sam.”
He added “My mother cried and said no, I won’t go into the military because at that time I was quite young. When I was leaving the university I was 20 years old and my dream was to go into the Army and stage a coup because I didn’t like President Kufuor that much at the time.
“I thought he was maltreating Rawlings.”
Asked whether that his decision to topple a government has rescinded he answered;
“The other day I said this to President Kufuor about two years ago when I met with him.
“I said to him,” Dad, look at me and you sitting in your house and coming to you for advice. President Kufuor has been a very good person to me.
“He asked why? And I said when I was leaving the university in 2005, I wanted to enter the army and stage a coup and take you out because of the way you were treating Rawlings. That was when he had withdrawn Rawlings’ privileges. He drew me closer to him and gave me a knock.”
Source:ghgossip.com