Kennedy Agyapong bows out of parliament in 2020

Controversial Assin Central Member of Parliament (MP), Kennedy Ohene Agyapong has indicated he will not seek re-election as a lawmaker for his constituency in the 2020 elections.

His decision comes on the back of the recent impasse with the privileges committee of parliament in which he was cited as having denigrated the House of Parliament by stating that parliament is cheap.

Mr. Agyapong appeared before the privileges committee yesterday and rendered an unqualified apology to parliament and its leadership, insisting that he said parliament was cheap and not useless.

According to Mr. Agyapong, his wife after watching the video tendered in evidence against him by MP for Asawase, Mohammed Mubarak Muntaka, got angry and advised him not to contest the seat again.

“My wife told me not to contest again after watching the video. She agrees that indeed what I said was true. I will leave Parliament and become a star. My constituents will see how hard life will be for them when I leave parliament. I will not contest again” he opined on Adom TV’s Badwam program and monitored by MyNewsGh.com

Mr. Agyapong who looked visibly peeved about the turn of events noted that his apology to the leadership of parliament on the matter was genuine and that he stands by the apology.