POLICE ARREST KEN AGYEPONG NPP stages demo at Police headquaters
Chronicle News Report
Kennedy Agyepong being taken to Police Armour Car
A cloud of tear gas, live bullets and water canon could not disperse the crowd of mainly New Patriotic Party supporters massed up in front of the Criminal Investigations Department of the Ghana Police headquarters in Accra, as The Chronicle went to press last night.
It followed police decision to detain Mr. Kennedy Agyapong, NPP Member of Parliament for Assin North, for allegedly inciting the population of this country.
The vociferous Member of the House had reported to the police voluntarily, following an invitation extended to him to report to help the police in their investigations into a statement he was alleged to have made on Oman FM, the radio station he owns.
First reports indicated that the police had charged him with treason. But, Mr. Kobina Tahir Hammond, a member of the MP’s defence team, told The Chronicle that Mr. Agyapong had not been charged.
According to reports available to The Chronicle, Mr. Agyapong had allegedly suggested on the radio station that the mayhem enveloping the registration exercise, and the selective justice with which the police were employing to deal with the mayhem, had the potential of leading this nation to war.
When NPP supporters heard of what was initially reported as an arrest of the MP, they jammed the entrance to both the CID and Police headquarters. As with many such events, party faithful began arriving in singles and doubles until it became a flood.
The Chronicle learnt that when Mr. Agyapong was put in a police van ready to whisk him away to a location, likely to be the Bureau of National Investigations headquarters, they blocked the way. The police then fired tear-gas in an attempt to disperse the crowd to no avail.
At the time of going to press, the van had whisked him to the BNI headquarters. Our Deputy News Editor, Daniel Nonor, and ace Cameraman Eric Owiredu, who were assigned to cover the event at the CID headquarters, had a hard time leaving the place, and struggled their way out, arriving at the office as the paper was going to bed.
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IN 2008, WHEN THE SO-CALLED ASOMDWEE HENE SAID “GHANA WOULD BE LIKE KENYA”, WHO ARRESTED HIM. THE POLICE MUST FREE KEN.
IN FACT, PREZ MILLS IS THE MOST HYPOCRITICAL GOVERNMENT GHANA HAS EVER HAD. I DON’T KNOW WHO GAVE HIM THAT NAME OF ASOMDWEE HENE?
DO ALL U CAN, NDC, MILLS. U SHALL SURELY BE OVERTHROWN COME DEC. LAZY AND CHILDISH PRESIDENT SITTIN DOING NOTHING.
KENNEDY WL BE FREE, DONT KID YOURSELVES. IM FANTE, I THOUGHT FANTES R RESPONSIBLE, BT NO, OUR OWN PREZ ISNT. SHAME
http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/398862_3375950050577_1624113069_3709102_1365114113_n.jpg.
this is what you should be reportin on.and for the police,is it no evidence enough to bring this people to book and restore peace and other in the country
I am happy and encouraged to note from news covered in Ghanawed that several individuals, organizations and institutions have condemned in no uncertain terms, the “statement” Hon. Ken Agyapong made on an Accra TV station last Friday. The police have also been called upon to take action against any such people in order to nib the trait in te bud. I hope they will do so. I note the NPP statement on the issue. However, stating they do not condone or accept temperate speech is not enough and indeed liasing or linking it to other incidents of violence dilutes the substance and the gravity of the statement made by Hon. Agyapong. It does not send the right message to would be inciters like Hon Agyapong. Every Ghanain should condemn in no uncertain terms Hon Agyapong’s statement and this must be be done in unequivoal terms.
Having worked as a Trial Atorney with the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (UNICTR) for over 12 years I know what lead to the genocide in Rwanda in 1994; it was hate speeches spewed by politicains and the media. The post election violence in Kenya in 2007/2008 was caused by the same. I therefore inplore fellow Ghanains to refrain from pronouncements that wil heat up heads; especially during this election year. It worth noting that four Kenyans have been charged for crimes against hunanity by the ICC- they include politicains and a journalist. The ICTR has convicted sereral politicians and journalists for hate seppeches and incitement. BE WARNED.