A vibrant communications member of the opposition NDC, Chief Biney has advised the ruling NPP to as a matter of urgency distance itself from Kennedy Agyapong’s damning comments and attacks on international investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas.
The Assin South legislator on live TV stated that he has ordered the security capos at the Kotoka International Airport to prevent Anas from travelling.
He further described Anas as corrupt, evil and extortionist for employing crude methods to bait people and record them as evidence of corruption.
Mr. Agyapong appears incensed by Anas’s latest investigative documentary on corruption in football. Already the President of the Ghana Football Association is being investigated by the police CID for using President Akufo-Addo’s name to allegedly defraud investors.
The much-anticipated documentary, titled “Number 12,” is expected to be premiered in Accra on June 6
Chief Biney who is gunning for the Deputy National Organizer slot of NDC, on Peace FM expressed his dissatisfaction with NPP’s failure to disassociate itself from the damning comments which has attracted nationwide condemnation, .
According to him, the NPP’s inability to distance itself suggests total support for the MP’s threatening comments.
Explaining further, Chief Biney reminded the NPP that Ken Agyapong’s comments sharply contradicts the NPP’s decision to employ the ‘Anas Principle’ to fight corruption in a statement issued by Nana Akomea the then Director of Communications on February 7, 2011.
Chief Biney also cited comments by then candidate Nana Akufo-Addo during the live broadcast of IEA’s Presidential Encounter in Tamale on October 30, 2012 in which he promised to adopt the ‘Anas Principle’ to combat corruption.
Chief Biney maintained that the NPP’s disciplinary committee ought to invite the legislator and call him to order or formally disassociate the party from the incessant attacks on Anas.
Source: 3news.com | Ghana