Ken Agyapong Brings Privileges to Committee After "Instigating" to Comment on Murdered Journalist

Parliament dragged Assin Central MP Patriotic MP (Member of Parliament) MP Kennedy Agyapong to the House of Commons Privilege Committee for allegedly instigating the public to complain about the murdered journalist, Mr. Ahmed. Hussein Suale.

The Speaker of Parliament, Professor Aaron Michael Oquaye, referred Mr. Agyapong to the committee following a statement by the National Democratic Congress (ADSR) MP for Asawase MP and Minority Leader, Alhaji Mohammed-Mubarak Muntaka, in which he had heard the youths hit Mr. Hussein-Suale.

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He said MPs were highly esteemed and also enjoyed certain constitutional privileges that required them to protect their statements.

Alhaji Muntaka said that Mr. Agyapong's comments, in contradiction with the requirements of the Parliament's code of conduct, were an affront to the dignity of Parliament.

He stated that it was necessary that the Parliament's Committee on Privileges be instructed to investigate the matter and to punish him if he was found guilty of breaching Parliament's privilege.

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He asked to be allowed to listen to Mr. Agyapong's audio making the alleged incentive comments.

When he finished his remarks, the members of the minority shouted "It's too much, a person."

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In response, the majority leader, Mr. Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, said the members had not heard Mr. Agyapong make these comments.

Therefore, he said, the sound could not be played in the room.

He added that the Privileges Committee should be allowed to determine whether or not Mr. Agyapong violated the privilege.

Murder

Hussein-Suale, who worked for Tiger Eye Private Investigations, a private investigative company run by top journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas, was killed by unknown attackers in Madina on January 16, 2019.

He was shot and wounded three times, twice in the chest and another in the neck, late at night while he was returning home to the road of unidentified men driving a motorcycle.

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service has since launched a thorough investigation into this horrific murder.

The CID said it had questioned Mr. Agyapong about the alleged incentive remarks.