{"id":8142,"date":"2018-06-05T11:38:08","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T10:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kumasionlinegh.com\/?p=8142"},"modified":"2018-06-05T11:38:08","modified_gmt":"2018-06-05T10:38:08","slug":"kennedy-agyapongs-attacks-on-anas-regrettable-majority-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kumasionlinetv.com\/?p=8142","title":{"rendered":"Kennedy Agyapong\u2019s attacks on Anas regrettable \u2013 Majority Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8143\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8143\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8143\" src=\"http:\/\/kumasionlinegh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Osei-Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kumasionlinetv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Osei-Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.kumasionlinetv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Osei-Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu-410x269.jpg 410w, https:\/\/www.kumasionlinetv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Osei-Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu-768x504.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8143\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu &#8211; Majority Leader in Parliament<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Majority Leader in Parliament, Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu, has criticised the\u00a0Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong, for his tirades directed at the investigative journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on\u00a0Eyewitness News, he described Kennedy Agyapong\u2019s scathing verbal attacks against Anas as \u201cregrettable\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He was speaking after\u00a0Assin Central MP had accused Anas of being corrupt ahead of his documentary expos\u00e9 on Ghana football.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy Agyapong insisted that Anas\u2019 alleged act\u00a0of corruption warranted the death sentence.<\/p>\n<p>His disdain for the renowned\u00a0investigative journalist stems from his dislike for Anas\u2019 clandestine\u00a0methods.<\/p>\n<p>But the Majority Leader said his fellow MP still has no right to attack\u00a0Anas.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIf you question his methods, does that mean you should launch a personal blistering attack on the person? Stating emphatically that he is corrupt and so on and so forth. We should be careful, especially us as Members of Parliament,\u201d\u00a0Mr. Kyei Mensah-Bonsu said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Anas\u2019 yet-to-be premiered expos\u00e9 implicates President of the GFA, Kwesi Nyantakyi, in alleged corruption.<\/p>\n<p>Kwesi Nyantakyi is said to have used the name of the President, the Vice President and other senior officers of the government to collect money and lure supposed foreign investors interested in establishing businesses in Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>There is a sense Anas relies\u00a0on unfairly entrapping his subjects and Kennedy Agyapong suspect he may have baited the GFA president.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kyei Mensah-Bonsu,\u00a0however, argued that\u00a0Kennedy Agyapong, who has not seen the video, had no way of knowing how the\u00a0GFA President was implicated in corruption.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_407642\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-407642\" src=\"https:\/\/citinewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Kennedy-Agyapong.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citinewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Kennedy-Agyapong.jpg 640w, https:\/\/citinewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Kennedy-Agyapong-300x183.jpg 300w\" alt=\"\" width=\"730\" height=\"445\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kennedy Agyapong<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIf you haven\u2019t done that, how come you are so conclusive that the man baited the GFA President and got him cornered and so on,\u201d the Majority Leader reasoned.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The documentary is set to be premiered in Accra on June 6\u00a0at the Accra International Conference Centre.<\/p>\n<p>Anticipation for the Anas\u2019 documentary heightened when President Nana Akufo-Addo\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/citinewsroom.com\/2018\/05\/23\/nyantakyi-not-immune-to-prosecution-foh-amoaning\/\">filed a complaint<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0at the Criminal Investigations Department of the Ghana\u00a0Police Service after a security briefing on the upcoming expose.<\/p>\n<p>Other GFA officials are expected to fall after the screening of the full documentary.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013<\/p>\n<p>Source: Citinewsroom.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<div id=\"taboola-below-article\" class=\" trc_related_container trc_spotlight_widget trc_elastic trc_elastic_trc_72146 \" data-placement-name=\"below-article\">\n<div class=\"trc_rbox_container\">\n<div>\n<div id=\"trc_wrapper_72146\" class=\"trc_rbox thumbnails-a trc-content-sponsored \">\n<div id=\"trc_header_72146\" class=\"trc_rbox_header trc_rbox_border_elm\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Majority Leader in Parliament, Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu, has criticised the\u00a0Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong, for his tirades directed at the investigative journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas. Speaking on\u00a0Eyewitness News, he described Kennedy Agyapong\u2019s scathing verbal attacks against Anas as \u201cregrettable\u201d He was speaking after\u00a0Assin Central MP had accused Anas of being corrupt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kennedy Agyapong\u2019s attacks on Anas regrettable \u2013 Majority Leader - Kumasi Online TV<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kumasionlinetv.com\/?p=8142\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kennedy Agyapong\u2019s attacks on Anas regrettable \u2013 Majority Leader - Kumasi Online TV\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Majority Leader in Parliament, Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu, has criticised the\u00a0Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong, for his tirades directed at the investigative journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas. 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