A former Deputy Minister for Youth and Sports, Joseph Yamin has described the Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin Central, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong as a fly who does not need to be given attention.

Mr Yamin responding to a recent video of the MP, in which he accused opposition NDC for having a hand in the burning of some markets in the capital Accra, said “Kennedy Agyapony, as far as the NDC is concerned, is a fly and needs not our [sledge] hammer.”

Thus, Mr Agyapong with a strong conviction that the NDC should be held accountable for burning of the market, took to his Accra based Net2 Television station, to tell the world he knows the homes of some key figures in the NDC party and would order their homes and themselves to be burnt alive.

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Mr Agyapong mentioned the likes of former President John Dramani Mahama, NDC General Secretary, Johnson Asiedu Nketiah, former National Security Coordinator and NDC Director of Campaign Operations, Lieutenant Colonel Larry Gbevlo-Lartey (rtd), a member of the NDC legal team, Baba Jamal and NDC National Organiser, Joshua Akamba.

In fact, in the said video, the MP used unprintable words on the former president, which few day after he is running around to apologise.

However, Mr Yamin in a telephone interview stated emphatically “In fact, it will be a wasted effort if we have to spend time to deal with him.”

By this, he proceeded to lie the blame squarely at the doorsteps of opinion leaders and the moral society, saying “but the question is, why the country’s leadership is quiet with his outburst. Is it to suggest [that] they either support him or they are afraid of him?”

According to him, His Excellency John Mahama is a former president, therefore, when irresponsible statements like what was put out there by the “dishonourable” Member of Parliament, and if the former president would not respond, is it not the duty of the state to call that person to order.

At this, he puzzled whether President Nana Akufo-Addo has not heard the insults and the threat on the life of the former president and for that matter “the president elect for the country.”

He asked: “Why is the president quiet? What about the party that he (Kennedy Agyapong) belongs to? Why, won’t they call him to order?”

To him, all these could only happened under Inspector General of Police (IGP) who hears no evil and sees no evil about one side but he is quick to act when the table tilts to the other side.

Per his observation, “When a statement is made against the NPP (New Patriotic Party), the IGP coincidentally will be watching Ghana news but when it is against the NDC and the former Commander in Chief of the Ghana Armed Forces and the “Commander in Chief elect”, the IGP will be out of news because he was watching animals’ kingdom.” 

Making reference to best practice elsewhere, Mr Yamin said any serious country would have invited the MP to answer for the irresponsible statements that he made, “but as it stands now, it looks like we don’t have a country lead by serious leaders.”

Mr Yamin called for an immediate arrest of Mr Agyapong to discourage other from putting the law into their own hands.   

By Akutu Dede Adimer