Zambia’s Minister for Technology and Science, Felix Mutati, has praised Ghana’s Minister of Communications, Digital Technology and Innovation, Sam Nartey George.
Felix Mutati described Sam George as ‘intelligent’, crediting him as the singular force behind the high-level visit to Ghana following his earlier visit to Zambia, where his very presence and his conviction that when Africans engage one another directly, the results are transformative.
Speaking to Bernard Avle on Citi FM’s Breakfast Show, Minister Felix Mutati made this known.
According to him, it was Sam George’s earlier trip to Lusaka, he said, that lit the spark.
“Felix Mutati also noted that real transactions and real investment flow from real relationships, and that connecting Africa to Africa is not a slogan but a strategy. That, for the Zambian minister, is what Sam George represents.
The warmth was not merely diplomatic. Mutati confessed that coming to Ghana felt like coming home, because his youngest daughter is married to a Ghanaian named Kwesi. He did not know which part of Ghana Kwesi hails from, but he said he had come to feel the Ghana spirit all the same”.
“There was levity in the air, too. Mutati recalled how President Mahama’s arrival in Zambia had stirred an unexpected national conversation about whether he was wearing a blouse, a debate that ended up introducing the fugu to Zambians as a proudly African garment. From a political curiosity, it had become a continental statement.
But beneath the warmth and the laughter ran a serious current. Mutati spoke of the technology sector’s enormous contribution to Zambia’s economy and of his country’s desire to move from consuming technology to creating it.
He spoke of artificial intelligence, of copper discoveries, of bold African solutions to African problems. And he pointed, repeatedly, to the kind of diplomatic energy that Sam George had ignited as the model for how this future would be built, one purposeful visit at a time”.
In related news, Sam George has told his critics on social media X, reposting the old videos that he has paid his dues.
According to Sam George, in 2017, when many were afraid to speak for the NDC after the party’s 2016 election defeat, he stood up and filled the gap.
Sam George added that those posting his old videos to set an agenda may think you are cooking, but each video shows how he fought to bring the NDC to power.
In a post shared on X, Sam George wrote, “Dear X,
In 2017, when many were afraid to speak for the NDC after the massive 2016 election defeat, a few of us stood up and filled the gap. I was on TV and radio, sometimes 3 times a day. I was on the floor of Parliament as part of a paltry 106 against the NPP’s 169. I made sure my voice was heard!
Today, I see the slicing and reposting of old videos to set an agenda. I smile and say, “I have paid my dues.” You may think you are cooking, but with each video you post, you show the stripes on my shoulder as I fought to bring my party – the NDC – to power. I stood for something I believed in – the return of JM.
When former Ministers refused to speak and defend, I did, and I have ABSOLUTELY no regrets. So, dig deeper, you will find 10,000s of videos of me toiling either on the screens or in Parliament. Today, JM is back in power with an even bigger victory than we lost in 2016. We have almost 190 MPs in Parliament.
I paid my due, and I hold my head high. Now ask yourself, what have you stood for or achieved? If you think my hustle is simple, like we say on the streets, do make we see! The fact that I have chosen peace does not mean that I am asleep. You think you are agenda-ing, you are simply writing my political memoirs, and I am reading with delight at the testimony of the work we did and achieved.
This one is a #TuffSeed. Go and ask your predecessors and be told! Nothing you say about me today is new and has not been told to me before”.