BNI To ‘Arrest’ Kennedy Agyepong?

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) wants the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) to ‘arrest’ Hon. Kennedy Agyapong, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) MP for Assin North for making what they consider as a statement of intent likely to cause fear and panic.

Mr. Alfred Woyome, a staunch member of the ruling party and a philanthropist, believed to be a major financier of the Atta Mills campaign in the 2008 general elections, believes the NPP MP is planning to foment war in the country.

The Assin North MP earlier in the day issued a stern warning to the NDC saying if the ruling party does not abandon plans to rig the 2012 elections, Ghana would be plunge into a state of genocide like what transpired in the East African nation of Rwanda where an estimated 800,000 died in the 1994 mass murder.

“If we don’t have peaceful elections in this country and Koku Anyidoho thinks he can use the military, the macho men to intimidate and rig elections, Ghana would not be like Kenya, Ghana would be like Rwanda…We want peace, nobody wants to fight in this country…but an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth…this time we would not sit down for NDC to intimidate anybody, if they hit one we would hit three,” the NPP firebrand charged.

The Honorable Kennedy Agyapong’s comments was in the wake of threats by Koku Anyidoho, Communications Director at the Presidency, that the NDC would deal with the flagbearer of the NPP, Nana Akufo-Addo if he dares incite his supporters to engage in electoral violence next year.

The Communications Director at the Presidency, told London-based Focus Radio recently that Akufo-Addo, the NPP chairman Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey and former Chairman Peter Mac Manu may all die first if they persist with their “all-die-be-die” mantra.

However, speaking in an interview with Shamima Muslim on Citi FM's Eye Witness News, Alfred Woyome, a co-opted member of the Volta Regional Executive of the NDC and a former Vice Honorary Consul of Austria, said Koku Anyidoho was only stressing the point that no one is above the law.

To him, there’s a vast world of difference in what Koku Anyidoho said and the sharp rebuttal from the NPP MP, adding that the latter is more menacing in nature and must be regarded as an emphatic declaration of an intention or a determination to inflict harm or cause chaos.

“The country is being ruled by law and order…If Ken believes he has prepared to turn this country into Rwanda then the BNI [Bureau of National Investigations] and other security agencies should act promptly and invite Agyapong for questioning…I am appealing to the BNI to make Mr. Kennedy explain what he means by if the NDC tortures one, we will torture three. He should also explain what he means by Ghana will not be like Kenya but Rwanda … They should ask him how he is going to achieve that…They must stop beating war drums. Ghana is no longer a ‘patapaa nation’,” Alfred Woyome said.