The Aspiring Presidential candidate for the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, has denied claims on a video that went viral on social media, alleging that he said the NPP was looting the country as if there was no tomorrow.
“I wish to state that this is a complete and unfortunate misrepresentation of the actual content and focus of my message at that private event in Kumasi,” he said.
In a statement issued and signed by him, Mr Agyapong said the offending video was culled from a private meeting with some communicators in Kumasi, Ashanti Region, over the weekend, and edited to purposefully create disaffection towards him and to bring the Akufo-Addo government into disrepute.
According to him, at the event, he lamented the fact that NPP communicators were letting the party down and that every government would have its fair share of corruption cases, especially in eight years, “but because of one or two bad cases which the authorities were handling and in a transparent manner as it should be, we have, sadly, allowed the ruthless opposition propaganda machinery, the mass media and the social media to create the deadly impression that NPP was looting as if there was no tomorrow, including allegations of stashing funds abroad.”
Mr Agyapong said he told the gathering not to be fooled by the lies against the government and party and expressed anger and unhappiness about the way the NPP were allowing itself to be unfairly bashed in the media, especially social media, adding that as if the NPP was worse than the NDC, which was certainly not the case.
“I am fully aware of the commitment shown by President Akufo-Addo, in deeds and institutional reforms, in combatting the canker of corruption in Ghana and the challenges that it entails,” the statement said.
BY TIMES REPORTER
