The former Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong, has described what his bond with Ghanaian international, Mohammed Kudus, is like.
The legislator shared what he said was an emotional experience he had with Kudus during a donation to a Muslim community during an Eid-al-Fitr celebration on March 31, 2025, in Accra.
Addressing the gathering who received the donation of 334 bags of rice to support the needy during the festive season, he emphasised the commitment of Muslims.
He said, “You see, the reason why I don’t joke with Muslims is because they’re sincere. If they say that they love you. They really mean it.
“On Monday, I was unwell and Kudus was also unwell. But he was rather crying that he couldn’t meet ‘his father’ to wish me Eid Mubarak. Meanwhile, he was unwell too. Muslims are very committed people. When they say they love you, they really do.”
The former legislator also recounted how Muslims overwhelmingly supported him during his arrest for treason in 2012.
He noted that at the time, he became emotional when he saw a lot of his Muslim friends lined up in front of the Police Headquarters praying for him while he was being taken to the BNI, now NIB office, over treasonous charge.
Background
It would be recalled that a Circuit Court in Accra acquitted and discharged Kennedy Agyapong, who was standing trial for inciting behaviour tantamount to a breach of the peace.
The decision was taken after lawyers for Agyapong argued for submission of no case at the last hearing.
His lawyer, Ayikoi Otoo filed a submission of no case on April 25, 2013, after the state concluded its case.
He argued that the state had not made out its case.
Kennedy Agyapong, therefore, had no case to answer.
The state prosecutor, Rexford Wiredu, opposed the motion but presiding judge, Ebenezer Osei Darko, dismissed the case.
The MP was facing charges of attempted treason, genocide and terrorism, after he was alleged to have made tribal comments on Oman FM, a private radio station owned by him.
But those charges were dropped and he was charged with the lesser offences of conducts conducive to the breach of the peace and causing fear and alarm.
He was arrested on Monday, April 16, 2012, after he was invited by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service over statements he allegedly made on his Accra-based radio station, Oman FM.
He was alleged to have “declared war” and vowed to lynch any fake security operative, following the alleged physical attack on Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, the immediate-past MP for Ablekuma West, and Abu Jinapor, a former aide to the 2012 NPP flagbearer, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, at Odododiodoo during the biometric registration exercise.
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