{"id":13405,"date":"2025-09-30T10:27:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T10:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=13405"},"modified":"2025-09-30T10:27:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T10:27:01","slug":"talk-is-cheap-npps-kamal-deen-chides-sam-george-on-dstv-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=13405","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Talk is cheap\u2019 \u2014 NPP\u2019s Kamal-Deen chides Sam George on DStv deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"125\" data-end=\"425\">Deputy National Communications Director of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kamal-Deen Abdulai, has criticised the approach taken by the Minister for Communication, Digital Technology, and Innovations, Sam Nartey George, in his negotiations with MultiChoice Africa over DStv subscription fees.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"427\" data-end=\"703\">His comments follow the Minister\u2019s announcement that MultiChoice has agreed to an \u201cunprecedented increased value offer\u201d for the Ghanaian market, which the government has touted as a major concession that will deliver significantly improved service offerings for subscribers.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"705\" data-end=\"869\">Speaking on\u00a0<em data-start=\"717\" data-end=\"734\">Breakfast Daily<\/em>\u00a0on Channel One TV on Tuesday, September 30, 2025, Mr. Abdulai said the Minister\u2019s confrontational stance undermined the negotiations.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"705\" data-end=\"869\">\u201cTo my brother Sam George, talk is cheap. You can do all the talking and raise your muscles, but trust that people stand by the law. When investors come into this country, they look for fine lawyers and engage them.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_ad jeg_ad_article jnews_content_inline_2_ads  \">\n<div class=\"ads-wrapper align-center \">\n<div class=\"ads_shortcode\">\n<div class=\"a-single a-10\">\u201cThey also engage tax experts and marketing experts. That is a serious investor\u2019s approach. So, when you come up with threats, they don\u2019t care. They will also go and consult their people. The whole thing then becomes like a fight,\u201d he said.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p data-start=\"1332\" data-end=\"1477\">Mr. Abdulai argued that instead of issuing threats, the Minister should have mobilised public support to strengthen Ghana\u2019s bargaining position.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1332\" data-end=\"1477\">\u201cAt least he was lucky because the public was with him. All he needed to do was to water the grounds enough with the public and find a way of getting the public to issue statements to DStv.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1332\" data-end=\"1477\">\u201cWhen they see that, they will know the public is serious. But he didn\u2019t do that. Rather, he came out with threats, only for him to come at the last minute to announce that subscribers are going to enjoy more channels. Does more channel mean reduction?\u201d he questioned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy National Communications Director of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kamal-Deen Abdulai, has criticised the approach taken by the Minister for Communication, Digital Technology, and Innovations, Sam Nartey George, in his negotiations with MultiChoice Africa over DStv subscription fees. His comments follow the Minister\u2019s announcement that MultiChoice has agreed to an \u201cunprecedented increased value offer\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123457,"featured_media":13406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,3507,18,11],"tags":[3775,4132,4128,1164],"class_list":["post-13405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","category-national","category-politics","category-sports","tag-dstv","tag-kamal-deen-abdulai","tag-multichoice","tag-sam-george"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/123457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13407,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13405\/revisions\/13407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}