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Hon Samuel Abu Jinapor
February 5, 2025
Immediate past Minister for Lands and Natural Resources Samuel Abu Jinapor has denied calling his colleague Member of Parliament for Klottey Korle as “daughter of murder” as making rounds on social media.
According to him anyone who follows his career and involvement in Ghanaian public life in all modesty will confirm that he does not speak in that nature, “the words which are being falsely attributed to me, they are not my words; I will never use such words, that is not the way I speak”.
In an interview on Wednesday, February 5, 2025, he pointed out that he does not know such words have been uttered; I found out this morning when this was trending in a video that was brought to my attention. “What I can say to that is it’s totally false, it cannot be correct”.
“Again, anyone who has followed my career will know Abu will not speak this way and I do not speak across the House when I am in Parliament. When I have anything to say, I catch the eye of the Speaker to speak; I did not follow the proceedings which emanated into this unfortunate statement.”
“I have huge respect for late former president Rawlings, anyone who knows me very well knows that, when he was alive, he took a lot of interest in me and I visited him multiple times.
Furthermore, when he passed, on the floor of Parliament in the previous parliament the one who read the tribute in memory of the former President Rawlings, Haruna Iddrisu then
Minority Leader that was the first time I spoke, I was then a first- timer, I was the one who contributed after the Minority Leader.”
When his children set up his foundation of tree planting, I was the guest of Honour; its on record what I said about the former president, I have a personal relation with former President Rawlings and respect the family particularly the daughter and my colleague Dr. Zanetor Agyeman-Rawlings; I will not say such a thing, it will not even cross my mind, he added.
Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/Ghanamps.com