Member of Parliament and the flagbearer hopeful of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, has indicated that he has not accused the members of the NPP of looting the country as if there is no tomorrow, as captured on video that is going viral on some online news portals.
Kennedy Agyapong argued that he has never made such derogatory comments targeted at his party, the NPP.
In a press release issued on Wednesday, Mr. Agyapong disclosed that the viral and derogatory video was picked out from a very private and confidential meeting he had with some NPP communicators in Ashanti Region and that the viral video has been edited to purposefully paint him black in the eyes of the delegates and party members, as well as rendering Akufo-Addo’s government as a corruption-infested administration.
In the press release, he said: “My attention has been drawn to a video on social media that has since gone viral where I am heard saying that the NPP was looting the country as if there was no tomorrow.
“I wish to state that this is a complete and unfortunate misrepresentation of the actual content and focus of my message at that private event in Kumasi. It was a meeting with a small group of NPP communicators who had organized a small fundraising event for me at the weekend.
“At the event, I lamented the fact that our communicators were letting the party down and that every government would have its fair share of corruption cases, especially in 8 years, but because of one or two bad cases that the authorities were handling in a transparent manner as it should be, we have, sadly, allowed the ruthless opposition propaganda machinery, the mass media, and the social media to create the deadly impression that the NPP was looting as if there were no tomorrow, including allegations of stashing funds abroad,” Mr. Agyapong’s statement read.
“I wish to stress the point that the offending video was culled from a private meeting with some communicators in Kumasi, Ashanti Region, over the weekend and edited to purposefully create disaffection towards me, Ken Ohene, Agyapong, and to bring the Akufo-Addo government into disrepute.
“Indeed, I told the gathering not to be fooled by the lies against our government and party and also expressed my anger and unhappiness about the way we were allowing ourselves to be unfairly bashed in the media, especially social media, as if we were worse than the NDC, which is certainly not the case,” the statement further read.
Kennedy Agyapong, reacting to the claims he made during the meeting from which the viral video was put together and published, said, “I, Kennedy Agyapong, expressed my anger and unhappiness about the way we were allowing ourselves to be unfairly bashed in the media, especially social media, as if we were worse than the NDC, which is certainly not the case.
“I am fully aware of the commitment shown by President Akufo-Addo, in deeds and institutional reforms, in combating the canker of corruption in Ghana and the challenges that entail.
“I remain a committed member of our great party and hope to lead us in our quest to ‘break the eight’, as together, we face John Mahama and the NDC for the “showdown” on December 7, 2024,” Mr. Agyapong’s statement read in its concluding part.
By Lawrence Odoom