VOTP: 'Sam George should learn how to speak to women' - Janet Nabla

Added: 2026-05-23

[00:00:05][music] [music] [singing] >> WHAT THAT THAT DANIEL DANIEL WHAT THAT TIME TIME AND GOD DANIEL DANIEL >> [groaning and screaming] >> OR WHAT THAT TIME TIME THIS IS THE VOICE OF THE PATRIOT.

[00:00:34]And here we speak truth to power.

[00:00:37]This is our daily editorial.

[00:00:40]And here we don't criticize, but if we must, it would only be on one condition, to build and not to destroy. That is why we keep saying we are in the service of GOD AND COUNTRY.

[00:00:53]>> [screaming] >> NOW, THE VERY FIRST story we are looking at today is taken from Ghana web and it says, "Sam George should learn how to speak to women."

[00:01:09]And this is a lady called Janet Nabla.

[00:01:13]National chairperson of the People's National Party, PNP.

[00:01:17]Janet Asana Nabla has criticized the conduct of communications minister Samuel Nat George during his recent heated exchange with Public Accounts Committee chairperson Abena Osei Asare on May 18th, 2026. Now, speaking on Joy Prime on May 19th, 2026, Janet Nabla expressed surprise at the manner in which Sam George engaged the female lawmaker during proceedings of the Public Accounts Committee. You see?

[00:01:51]I'm surprised that Honorable Sam George was arguing with a woman.

[00:01:55]We all know that in Ghana and in Africa, respecting women is something that we don't joke about. She stated. According to her, men are expected to exercise emotional restraint.

[00:02:09]Especially during tense exchanges involving women.

[00:02:14]At times, maybe she may be right or wrong.

[00:02:18]But a man, you are supposed to have the emotional control over yourself.

[00:02:25]So that when the woman is shouting and the voice is up, you just keep quiet and listen.

[00:02:31]She [snorts] added.

[00:02:33]Janet Nabla Fedah referenced former presidential candidate Bernard Mornah describing him as an example of someone who communicated strongly without raising his voice. I used to tell people that Bernard Mornah would never raise his voice.

[00:02:54]But would say things that will pain you in a VERY GENTLE MANNER.

[00:02:59]>> [screaming] [applause] >> WELL, WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT what Janet Nabla is saying?

[00:03:11]She says in our country and the whole of Africa when it comes to the issues of women respecting women we don't joke with that.

[00:03:22]That is correct.

[00:03:24]She says when a woman is arguing with a man the man is supposed to keep quiet.

[00:03:31]So the woman will raise her voice and make all the noise that she wants.

[00:03:37]At the end of the day, the man is supposed to control himself emotionally.

[00:03:43]What do you think about that?

[00:03:46]Yeah, women are noted for talking.

[00:03:50]That is very true.

[00:03:52]When I growing up, that was what my father told me.

[00:03:57]Don't ever argue with a woman.

[00:04:01]When a woman is angry and is talking, don't be drawn emotionally into any argument with a woman.

[00:04:11]Let her have her way.

[00:04:14]When she is done and quiet, one word from you is enough.

[00:04:22]Allow the woman to have her way.

[00:04:25]Let her talk all that she wants to say.

[00:04:28]In fact, because women talk too much, she would end up contradicting herself in her plenty talk and you would not need to talk.

[00:04:40]That's what my father said years ago.

[00:04:43]Today I sit back and I look at it and I say that yes, there's some truth in it.

[00:04:50]But that is basically about relationships, isn't it?

[00:04:54]Man and woman.

[00:04:56]This is a whole different business.

[00:04:59]You can't go and sit in Parliament and just allow women to talk and talk yabba yabba yabba yabba chatter boxing all over the place.

[00:05:10]No.

[00:05:11]The nation will not develop.

[00:05:15]The Parliament House is a place we share ideas, not where we go quiet and listen to women chatter. No.

[00:05:24]They are two different places.

[00:05:27]In my home, if my woman comes and I tell her that there's a little bit too much salt in the soup, do you know what salt is? Do you understand what salt is? Do you know what it is?

[00:05:38]It's spices that I put there. You should ask if YOU DON'T KNOW. WHY WOULD YOU SAY the salt is too much? I say, "Ah, am I a child? I know how salt tastes."

[00:05:47]No, BUT THERE ARE OTHER THINGS THAT TASTE LIKE SALT. This is not salt.

[00:05:59]I will keep quiet and listen to Normally at the end of it all, she say, "Well, if there's too much salt, then I'm sorry." After speaking for 18 hours, we don't have time for 18 hours in Parliament. No.

[00:06:17]SOME JUDGE WAS EXTREMELY PATIENT WITH Abena Osei Asare.

[00:06:24]Some judge kept his cool.

[00:06:27]She kept interrupting him unnecessarily.

[00:06:31]You ask a question.

[00:06:33]Allow the man to answer.

[00:06:36]Now the man is answering, then you interrupt him and make it a monologue when it should be a dialogue.

[00:06:42]That is not what we are talking about.

[00:06:49]If that is disrespect for women, then disrespect is good for our democracy.

[00:06:56]DID YOU WATCH THE TAPE?

[00:06:59]THOSE OF YOU WHO ONLY WATCHED 2 seconds of the tape, it's time now to go and watch the full length of THE TAPE.

[00:07:07]SOME JUDGE WAS VERY PATIENT.

[00:07:10]HE WAS INTERRUPTED about three TIMES AND HE SAT BACK and watched her chatter.

[00:07:16]The chatterbox that she is.

[00:07:20]Some judge's on the line.

[00:07:25]SOME JUDGE HAS BEEN GIVEN A JOB AND HE WAS WARNED by Mahama, "If any CONTROVERSY COMES ALONG YOUR LINE and not him alone, all other appointees, you will go home."

[00:07:38]SOME JUDGE IS A YOUNG MAN.

[00:07:41]SOME JUDGE HAS A LOT OF LIFE, POLITICAL LIFE AHEAD OF HIM.

[00:07:45]HE WON'T SIT DOWN FOR A CHATTERBOX TO MESS UP HIS political career and his service to humanity.

[00:07:53]If this is what you call disrespect, then come to me, I'll give you more disrespect in the service of the nation.

[00:08:02]ABENA OSEI ASARE WAS SO UNCOUTH FROM THE WAY SHE was interrupting them guy.

[00:08:09]It looked like she was on a certain agenda to frustrate him.

[00:08:16]She's doing a good job. I like how they are probing people.

[00:08:19]It is good.

[00:08:21]I give them all the respect and the love and they are colleagues that they deserve.

[00:08:26]But on that very occasion, she was most uncouth.

[00:08:31]And if there's anybody to tongue lash, it's Abena Osei Asare.

[00:08:37]It's done.

[00:08:40]I've never seen some judge so cool, calm, and collected like when she sat down before that beautiful woman.

[00:08:49]If I were him, probably I would have just packed my things and walked out.

[00:08:58]BUT THEY HAVE THE POWERS OF THE HIGH COURT.

[00:09:00]HE COULD BE CITED FOR CONTEMPT. OH, YES.

[00:09:05]She knows SHE HAS ALL THOSE POWERS.

[00:09:09]BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY, WHO LOSES? Is it not Ghana?

[00:09:14]So, those going around saying and some judge should learn how to talk to women.

[00:09:18]How do we talk to women?

[00:09:20]How do we talk to women?

[00:09:23]Tell me how.

[00:09:25]Oh, I'm asking you. How do we talk to women?

[00:09:30]I want to know.

[00:09:31]Teach me.

[00:09:34]Don't let it look like some judge is not married.

[00:09:38]If he didn't know how to talk to his wife, you think his wife would have been in that marriage all this while?

[00:09:44]How many women would take disrespectful behavior from men?

[00:09:50]Much as we are supposed to give love and respect to our women, remember they also have their duty. They are supposed to respect the man back.

[00:09:58]In a country that is phenomenally called a Christian country, the Bible makes it clear that the man is the head of the house.

[00:10:08]What does it mean?

[00:10:10]It means that the man's word is final.

[00:10:13]But this is religion, of course.

[00:10:18]The kind of society I am coming from when a woman is talking and a man is appearing it is time to lower your voice.

[00:10:29]You might call me a chauvinist.

[00:10:32]But that's the kind of society I come from growing up in the north.

[00:10:39]In the north, I never saw a husband and a wife argue. No.

[00:10:45]And it didn't mean they were subdued.

[00:10:48]They talked behind the doors.

[00:10:51]And they were able to come to so many different agreements and conclusions without raising their voices. It's a taboo for a man and a woman, husband and wife to argue in public.

[00:11:06]In my society, you would hardly even see a man and a woman, whether married or not, arguing.

[00:11:12]No.

[00:11:14]They will tease you.

[00:11:16]Men will tease you and say, "Ah, you you fight with men women.

[00:11:20]What kind of man are you?" Because they see argument as a certain form of fight.

[00:11:29]But in parliament it's a whole different caboodle.

[00:11:33]He has a job to protect. He has his integrity to protect. The whole nation is listening. He has been called there to answer questions and if you take all his time frustrating him and at the end of the day he's not able to articulate properly, his job is on the line. Let's respect that.

[00:11:51]In this case, it's not about the agenda.

[00:11:54]It is about the nation. Put your gender arguments aside and deal with the nation.

[00:12:02]Have I made my point clear?

[00:12:05]It is WHAT IT IS.

[00:12:07]>> [screaming] >> NOW THE NEXT THING I WANT TO LOOK AT THIS taking from my joy online and it says minority exaggerating claims of suppressed free speech. And this is the Attorney General speaking and I read the Attorney General and Minister of Justice um Dominic Ayine has defended the government's position on free speech insisting that freedom of expression must be exercised responsibly and without the comf- within the confines of the law.

[00:12:47]Speaking in an interview with journalist Dr. Ayine rejected claims by the minority that the government was attempting to suppress free freedom in the country.

[00:12:57]I think that the minority is exaggerating a lot with respect to the question of gagging of free speech. According to him although Ghana's constitution guarantees freedom of speech and other fundamental rights, there are legal implications and limitations particularly where public order and national security are concerned. He explained that chapter five of the constitution especially article 25 guarantees freedoms such as free speech and the right to demonstrate.

[00:13:31]But noted that those rights are not absolute.

[00:13:35]There are limits.

[00:13:37]You can limit free speech for instance.

[00:13:43]It is something that can undermine public order, public morals, or for law enforcement reasons. Dr. Ayine further argued that the government could not remain passive when individuals use public platforms to spread messages capable of inciting division or violence.

[00:14:13]So, Abronye calls a judge illiterate.

[00:14:19]He says the judge writes bad grammar.

[00:14:25]He says that the judge knows nothing except to write ungrammatical English.

[00:14:33]And that the judge had little or no education. And he went ahead to say that the judge was a political judge and not a proper judge.

[00:14:45]And that the time of the judge will come.

[00:14:49]My brother, my sister, amidst other things that he said.

[00:14:53]And that has become the talk of town right now. Everybody is talking about how Abronye's rights have been curtailed.

[00:15:04]My brother, if we all start to vilify the courts, we all start to say that the courts are terrible and bad.

[00:15:13]We have to remember that we are driving the country into lawlessness, a banana state.

[00:15:22]A lot of people remain cool and resolute because they know there are rules and laws in the country. And if they fall foul to these rules, they would be accepting punishment meted out to them.

[00:15:43]True?

[00:15:44]When you go to America, a lot of people behave well not because instinctively they are supposed to, but because they know there are CCTV cameras everywhere.

[00:15:57]America would have been a worse war zone.

[00:16:03]A lot of people are scared of the CCTV.

[00:16:07]Therefore, they behave.

[00:16:09]The CCTV serves as A CHECK AND BALANCE FOR our behavior.

[00:16:19]Same way our laws also serve as checks and balances.

[00:16:24]Yes, you can say whatever you want to say, but remember that the laws are also there to check what you say.

[00:16:33]That is it. It's not absolute.

[00:16:36]IT'S NOT ABSOLUTE. YOU CAN'T JUST SAY ANYTHING AT ALL AND walk away. Hey, there are things I can say right now and in less than 5 minutes B and I will be here.

[00:16:45]Should I start saying that?

[00:16:47]No.

[00:16:48]There are things I can start saying right now and parents will run here and ask for the radio station to be closed down.

[00:16:56]Is that freedom of speech?

[00:16:58]Certainly not.

[00:17:00]We have to be decorous in what we say.

[00:17:04]You bring a judge on the table, insult him and vilify him because he ruled and the ruling didn't favor you.

[00:17:14]Is there a way we can appeal and deal with some of these rulings. Yes?

[00:17:19]The appeal courts are there.

[00:17:21]The Chief Justice can be petitioned.

[00:17:24]That's why he's the justice of all the chiefs, or the chief of all the justices.

[00:17:31]So, if you have remedies to some of these things, why do you go to the gallery and start threatening judges?

[00:17:40]As for Haffner Amankwah, he says he will disrespect the judge every day, every second, every minute, every hour. He said he's an illiterate judge. He didn't pass his papers at the bar.

[00:17:55]My brother and my sister, if we continue like this, we would end up messing our country.

[00:18:03]People can just walk around and do anything. It will be a lawless state.

[00:18:08]Nobody wants that.

[00:18:11]We want the laws to still work. Ghana is one of the countries where at least we have some level of lawless law lawfulness.

[00:18:22]My little daughter asked me something.

[00:18:26]She said, "Daddy, in America, any small thing that you do that is against the law, they arrest you and then they punish you.

[00:18:40]But here, what does it Why does it take so long?

[00:18:43]Sometimes people do things and even go free."

[00:18:46]I had to sit my daughter down and explain to the little girl that we are growing. Our democracy was copied from those people.

[00:18:57]They were well engrained, yes, and engraved in that democracy, enshrined in that democracy before they bequeathed it to us.

[00:19:11]We are just infants growing up in our democracy.

[00:19:16]My brother, my sister, we hear about judges being bribed, justices bribed, lawyers even bribed by opposing factions so that they will sell out their clients.

[00:19:32]We hear of all those.

[00:19:35]But in those countries, it is rare.

[00:19:38]We hear about police people taking bribes on the street.

[00:19:42]In those countries, it is rare.

[00:19:44]Yet they are humans like us, two arms, two legs.

[00:19:48]We claim we have the same brains.

[00:19:50]It looks like we don't have the same morality.

[00:19:54]Because what they don't do there, and we all agree is a crime, we boastfully 100% bragadocio do this.

[00:20:06]We don't care.

[00:20:08]Do we?

[00:20:10]Yesterday I was speaking with an energy minister.

[00:20:14]And he told me, "Black Rasta, I am sad to tell you this, but this is what it is.

[00:20:21]The Mahama government is planting a lot of street lights.

[00:20:26]You go to a certain area and plant 50 street lights.

[00:20:30]You go back there and they have cut all the wires to go and sell as scraps.

[00:20:36]Can you believe this?

[00:20:38]Hey.

[00:20:40]We say our roads are dark.

[00:20:43]We put street lights there.

[00:20:45]Street children go out THERE AND CUT ALL THE WIRES.

[00:20:53]WHEN one person gets electrocuted, we blame the old woman in our village.

[00:21:03]Can you imagine?

[00:21:08]EVEN THE BRIDGES THAT ARE BEING BUILT, those that have been built already, are not spared.

[00:21:14]They still go and cut some of the metal to go out and sell. Are you aware?

[00:21:21]Rail lines have been cut and they go and sell to Chinese to go and re-fabricate and bring back to us and sell to us at the price of an arm and a leg.

[00:21:33]This country is sick.

[00:21:36]This country should be taken straight to the ICU in terms of our morality and our patriotism. But, it looks like we don't really care, do we?

[00:21:45]I leave it here. It's the voice OF THE PEOPLE.

[00:21:48]>> [screaming] [singing] >> YEBO.

[00:21:55]YEBO.