The Minister for Communication, Digital Technology and Innovation, and a key sponsor of the Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill, Sam Nartey George has revealed how he recently assisted in rescuing a 21-year-old man who had allegedly been abducted and held against his will.
According to him, a distressed father reached out to him after his son was reportedly taken by an older individual who was said to be engaging in a sexual relationship with him.
A swift action was taken in collaboration with the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service. He specifically credited Lydia Donkor, the Director-General of CID, for leading efforts to track down the suspect.
Through coordinated intelligence work, authorities were able to trace the suspect’s location, identify him, and successfully rescue the young man.
“People don’t understand what this is about. Just last week, I had to help a father whose 21-year-old son had been abducted by someone who was sodomising him as his gay lover.
“A 55-year-old Ghanaian, UK Ghanaian, kept the man’s 21-year-old son away from him. Thanks to COP Lydia Donkor, Director General of CID, who worked with our team to identify, track the number, and identify the person, and rescue the boy just last week,” he told Journalists at the Ministry of Communication on Friday, April 10.
The MP indicated that the incident occurred just last week and highlighted it as an example of what he described as growing concerns around child and family protection in Ghana.
He argued that such cases reinforce the need for urgent attention to issues of safety and social values, maintaining that incidents like this should not be overlooked in national discourse.
Sam Nartey George insisted that the controversial legislation remains a national priority.
“As for me, as the Member of Parliament for Ningo-Prampram, the people voted for me, and that was one of the reasons why they increased my vote margin from sixty-nine percent to seventy-four percent. They said, ‘Sam, go back to Parliament and make sure this bill is passed.
“So for my people in Ningo-Prampram and me, this is a priority, along with our roads, which are getting fixed, along with our health clinics, which we are building, along with our school blocks that we are building, and the water problem that we are tackling. So it remains a priority for us.”
