Police To Grab Kennedy Agyepong Finally

By Kofi Yeboah & Gifty Arthur

The Herald has picked up credible reports that the Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin North, Kennedy Ohene Agyepong, will be meeting the Police for threatening to kill Alhaji Bature, a sympathizer of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the Managing Editor of the ‘Bilingual Free Press’ newspaper.

Alhaji Bature last Saturday afternoon, lodged a complaint at the CID Headquarters in Accra, against the MP for threatening to kill him during their hot exchanges on Asempa FM’s ‘Ekosii Sen’, a popular political programme aired in the afternoon.

This is the first time that a criminal complaint has been lodged against the MP although there are many instances where he issued death threats to people he disagrees with politically.

Kennedy Agyapong, during the Kufuor administration, once threatened to kill ex-President Jerry Rawlings and wipeout his entire family, including every living creature, in his Ridge residence in Accra. Sometime in 2009, he threatened to kill a District Chief Executive (DCE) for frustrating development projects he was embarking on in his constituency.

Ato Ahwoi, Nii Laryea Afotey-Agbo, both of the NDC, among others, have received threats from Mr. Agyapong. From Peace FM, Adom FM and to his own radio station, his vituperations are well known.

The Herald gathered that Alhaji Bature’s complaints were received by Deputy Commissioner of Police (CID), Mr. Dedzo, who would actively commence an investigation into the death threat.

The Police CID, this paper further learnt, will soon write to the Speaker of Parliament, Mrs. Joyce Bamford-Addo, to release Mr. Agyepong for questioning.

Bobie, host of the programme, is also expected to be summoned by the Police, to narrate what exactly transpired on the programme.

This paper gathered that Mr. Aygepong last Friday (on Adom FM’s morning show ‘Dwaso Nsem’) described Alhaji Bature as a nobody who fended goats and sheep for a living when he was growing up.

He said he was also a packer of instrument for a band. However, ‘Asempa FM picked up the matter in its afternoon programme ‘Ekosii Sen’, and called Alhaji Bature to listen to his side of the story on what had happened earlier in the day on Asempa FM’s sister station, Adom FM, based in Tema, to the MP’s comments about him.

In response, Bature traced the history of the Chief Executive Officer of Kencity Media Limited, owners of Net 2 Television and Oman FM, saying that when he (Bature) started working in 1982, the MP had not entered into secondary school, and when he bought his first two cars- a Mercedes Benz and a Nissan Bluebird saloon car,

Mr. Agyepong had not bought even a bicycle tire.

According to him, the MP was “a nobody” and that but for the emergence of cocaine trafficking business, as a fast way of making money, he would not have gotten to where he is in life today.

Rambling on, Bature said that he knew the MP’s mother way back in the 70’s and that she was selling plastic wares at Maamobi market, a suburb of Accra, and that during those times he bought ‘buta’, a plastic water receptacle, which had a defect, but when he returned it to the MP’s mother, she failed to refund him his money.

Alhaji Bature said among others, that the MP was a known cocaine dealer whose couriers could be found at Spintex and Nima, both suburbs of Accra.

He maintained that the MP’s sister and husband were all cocaine dealers, and it was from drug money that they set up a petrol filling station in Madina, among other properties, including a hotel.

He wondered how the MP could have made all the huge sums he has been spending, particularly on New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) Presidential candidate’s( Nana Addo) campaign and boasts about.

“He was donating ¢50 million, ¢500 million to communities, villages and towns. Where did he get the money from? If he was doing a legitimate business would he have been dishing out huge sums to people like that? What kind of a rich man is he?

I don’t have money but I have God, but even that, I look presentable than you”, Alhaji Bature said.

But despite his ill-gotten wealth, the MP is not refined in both appearance and choice of language, as he is most uncultured.

He dared the MP to meet him on Asempa FM, anytime and any day for a face-to-face encounter on radio if he (the MP) thinks he is a man enough, adding: “Money doesn’t make him God. How much is his wealth?”

Bature insisted that it is a common knowledge in Ghana that the MP is a drug dealer, and that he, Bature, knows him and his sister very well, from their days in Maamobi, and maintained that the MP cannot challenge his claims against him as they are facts.He also called the MP a visa fraudster. When the MP was also called into the show, he challenged the one-time host of the popular Alhaji and Alhaji programme on Radio Gold to prove that he was a cocaine baron, adding that if he had been one, he would have had a brush with the Police.

In response, Bature said that “the fact that a thief has not been apprehended by the Police does not mean that he is not one.”

This then set the stage for Mr. Agyepong, to go ballistic, pouring forth uncomplimentary words least expected from an MP.

He called Bature ‘Pepeni’, a derogatory word for people from the northern Ghana. According to him, Alhaji Bature had cracked heels; body odour and foul month; and was “a motherfucker,” Bature, you are a fool, ‘Jimini’ like that.

He doesn’t know me. He is a band boy. “Kwasiea, mboasem kwasiakwa”. I challenge, lets meet, I will first kill you”. I will kill you first. A watchman’s son.” I will face you. If you’re a man let’s meet. Stupid fool”.