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Minority’s Calls For Agyapong’s Arrest Drips With Political Expediency

NO! KENNEDY AGYAPONG SHOULD NOT BE ARRESTED JUST YET; LIKE ALL SUSPECTS, HE IS INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY IN A COURT OF LAW.
 
I am hugely skeptical of the belated call by the NDC for Mr. Kennedy Agyapong’s arrest in relation to the murder of Mr. Ahmed Hussein Suale, the investigative journalist.
 
Mr. Agyapong reportedly blew the late journalist’s cover on television last year, a singular despicable act that many now contend led inexorably to Mr. Suale’s death.
 
This is my take on the MINORITY CALL: It is suspect and drips with political expediency.
 
I harbor no iota of doubt about Mr. Agyapong’s role, pivotal as it is, in the demise of Mr. Suale. The most egocentric politician of our time, now finds himself in a cauldron of trouble, much of it his own doing; he is currently being interrogated by a gaggle of police detectives at home.
 
And across the Atlantic ocean, a United States Congressman, Mr. Henry C. “Hank’ Johnson, Jr., in a letter to the State Department, urged it to impose a travel ban, banking and other applicable sanctions against Mr. Agyapong for inciting violence against the late Mr. Suale.
 
To say that Mr. Agyapong is in a heap of trouble is to put it mildly; he is the target of public scorn and visceral hatred, his political career may have cratered and his reputation torn into shreds. Suffice it to say that he is getting his due.
 
In hindsight, however, the minority’s request for the cuffs to be slapped on Mr. Agyapong is misplaced and smacks of opportunism, period.
 
If anything at all, the minority should have articulated and telegraphed its message last year when the legislator made the rounds of media houses in Accra —- after the release of the infamous Nyantakyi corruption video —- shamelessly casting aspersions on Anas and deliberately exposing the identity of the late Suale.
 
While I share the minority’s concerns, I am hesitant about endorsing its call for Mr. Agyapong’s arrest. Let us hold our horses until evidence implicating or exonerating the obnoxious legislator is collected and presented to the appropriate authorities. After all, is ours not a nation of laws?

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