Ken Agyepong advises NPP

Leave Appiah-Ofori to his fate
…He is a hypocrite, disgrace to party
Posted: The Chronicle / Friday, July 17, 2009



By Charles Takyi Boadu
The Outspoken New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin-North constituency, Kennedy Agyepong has urged the leadership of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to ignore the Member of Parliament for Asikuma-Odoben-Brakwa, Mr. P.C Appiah-Ofori, who has been making series of allegations against some of his colleague MPs.

According to him, expelling Appiah-Ofori from the NPP would rather make him a hero, since it will appear like he has been sacrificed for fighting a worthy course, when in actual fact he is only peddling lies and falsehood about the party.

Speaking in an interview with The Chronicle, as to whether he supports the call to expel the MP from the party or not, he said it was public knowledge that PC. Ofori has credibility problem, so there is no need to be worried about what he says.

Hon. Kennedy Agyepong, who was not happy with some of Mr. Appiah-Ofori’s comments, especially the most recent one, in which he alleged that NPP MPs who voted in favour of the sale of Ghana Telecom were paid $5,000 each. Hon. Agyepong said: “I think he has hit the wall, so they should leave him alone.”

The Assin-North MP denied ever receiving any such amount from either the then Chief of Staff or the NPP government as a form of compensation, as alleged by his colleague NPP MP.

“He is not credible anymore, especially after a woman told the whole Ghana that he (PC) had taken GH ¢46,000 from her, under the pretext of buying fish for her”, he said with rage, and added that “if this same man says he is credible and can disgrace his fellow Parliamentarians like this, then I am sorry, Ghanaians should read between the lines.”

The tough talking legislator believes the leadership of the NPP would rather make Mr. Appiah-Ofori more popular when they kick him out of the party, hence they should leave him to his fate. He said -“so let him be there, now nobody will take him serious because Ghanaians are discerning, and they know that he’s a hypocrite, he pretends.”

According to Hon. Agyepong, Hon. Appiah-Ofori takes delight in making unsubstantiated allegations, and said “when he criticises like that, he is considered an anti-corruption campaigner, and he gets a lot of international invitations, but he cannot disgrace me because I have built my reputation over the years and he cannot use one statement to discredit me like that.”

This, according to him, is what has made him (Ken Agyepong) to challenge his colleague MP to provide evidence to substantiate those allegations that he made to the committee, which has been tasked by the President to investigate the sale of Ghana Telecom to Vodafone.