I apologize for my ‘hot’ response - Remorseful Ken Agyapong to GAF PRO, military

Outspoken New Patroitic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament for Assin Central Honourable Kennedy Agyapong has issued an apology to Colonel Aggrey Quashie, Public Relations Officer of the Ghana Armed Forces and the military high command over his “hot response”, as he himself calls it.

Readers will recall, MYNEWSGH.com first reported Ken Agyapong’s “If I don’t get protocol slots, I will make ‘noise'”; later reporting the GAF PRO’s response and then subsequently, the controversial NPP MP for Assin Central calling the GAF PRO “a fool” over his response to the comments by Mr Agyapong that if he didn’t get protocol slots in military recruitment he will make ‘noise’.

These were the words of the GAF PRO: “Enlistment of applicants into the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) is always based on merits not political influence or any other means… People think that if I pay money to somebody I can get myself in there. If all your documentation is correct you stand an equal chance like any other person to be picked.” Colonel Aggrey Quashie had said, as MYNEWSGH.com reported.

And then Ken Agyapong’s “hot response:

“He (the Colonel) is a fool, ….if he knew what was going on in the military, he wouldn’t be going round speaking nonsense that he is a professional and that I can make all the noise.”

“Are you my mate? If my people are not recruited in the military so what? Do you know how many people I have employed in Ghana? If he likes let him retire and come to me, I’ll give him a job to do. What work does he have to do if he leaves the military now? He can only be a security guard, useless”, he said.

But the unusually outspoken MP has beaten a retreat issuing an apology to Colonel Aggrey Quashie and the military.

This, Mr Kennedy Agyapong said is based on calls he has received from the Minister of Defence and some top officials in military hierarchy who happened to be his in-laws.

He unreservedly apologized to Colonel Aggrey Quashie for his “hot response”.

“I am sorry… Minister had called me… My response was hot… I am sorry. I apologize.” He said in an Oman FM interview covered by MYNEWSGH.com.

“I apologize… big military people have called me over the issue. I didn’t even know my in laws are there” he added.