Audio Attachment:Listen to Kennedy Agyapong and Baba Jamal in the heated argument full of insults. |
Ardent listeners of Okay FM�s �Adeakye Abia� Morning Show were on Saturday morning treated to an unusual spectacle on radio as two honorable gentlemen, one a legislator and the other a Deputy Minister, engaged each other in an expletive laced exchange which could easily have ended up in fisticuffs if the 101.7 frequency was a boxing arena.
The two public officials, the NPP Member of Parliament for Assin North constituency, Kennedy Agyapong and Deputy Minister of Information, Baba Jamal, threw all proprietary to the wind and hurled scathing insults on each other.
The drama unfolded when Kennedy Agyapong who was commenting on the issue of false prophets and the constant spell of doom from some of these prophets, accused President Mills of being partly responsible for the influx of doomsayers in the country.
According to him, some false prophets approached him to set up a meeting with the NPPs flagbearer, Nana Akufo-Addo so they could pray and break a curse placed on him (Nana Addo) by the renowned Prophet T.B Joshua. The NPP MP alleged that President Mills later hosted the prophets at the Peduase Lodge after he (Ken) drove them away.
To him, President Mills� association with some of these false prophets has encouraged more people to indulge in fraudulent acts in the name of God.
Whiles accusing the NDC of being thieves, the Assin North MP also indicted the Mills� administration of worsening the plight of Ghanaians so much so that parents are finding it difficult to pay for their wards� school fees.
The Deputy Minister of Information, unhappy with the NPP MP�s remarks, sought to make an intervention. But even as the host of the show, Kwame Nkrumah �Tikese� was in the process of informing listeners that Baba Jamal was on the line to react to the false impressions put out by the Assin North MP, Kennedy Agyapong could be heard in the background screaming; �tell Baba Jamal not to come on-air�otherwise I�ll expose him.�
Baba Jamal replied, �go ahead and expose me�what is there about me that you intend to expose? You make irresponsible statements and spurious allegations on-air and when I call in to react, you go on about exposure.�
The CEO of Kencity Media did not take it kindly to the Deputy Minister�s reply and thus began the hot verbal exchange.
Kennedy Agyapong then warned the NDC former Deputy General Secretary not to dare bring himself because he (Ken) gave him (Baba) money to marry and once rescued him (Baba) from disgrace when he got ensnarled in a visa fraud.
��you came begging like a sick dog in Parliament asking for money to go and marry and I was the same person who rescued you when you got involved in a visa fraud, and today because you have been given a deputy ministerial position, you can challenge me on radio?�
But Baba Jamal stridently denied ever taking money from Kennedy Agyapong, describing him as a big liar.
��You cannot lie against me�you never gave me any money and I never got involved in any visa fraud� Do you know when and where I got married? Today I will let everybody know what a big liar you are�you cannot lie against me�You are not in your right frame of mind (Wonye correct)�it is very sad that people like you can also come on radio and talk. If Ghana was a serious country, we wouldn�t allow someone like you to talk on radio�if this was to be some other country; someone like you would never be allowed to speak on-air,� he said.
Baba Jamal further slammed Ken Agyapong for being a braggart and always hiding away from intellectual debates by claiming he helped someone financially.
�You are always showing off�it�s because you have no ideas, you hide behind your big talk to hide away from intellectual debates. You are not somebody to be taken serious because you talk anyhow. When I got married seven years where were you?�When we are debating ideas, you are talking about giving me money�You�ve lied blatantly on radio and when I want to put you right, you then claim to have given me money�You act as if you are the only person who is of sound financial standing in this country? I have now realized that you lack ideas, you cannot stand debates; this is a mark of a confuse person. You are just a braggart�you love singing you own praises� you know I�m not scared of you�just bring it on if you are a man�when you were accused of being a cocaine dealer did you have the guts to deny? You�re the number fraudster�any modicum of respect I have for you is gone�,� the deputy minister said.
The verbal spat went overdrive as the NPP MP also sarcastically shot back; �then the money I gave to you to marry was part of the proceeds from the sale of the cocaine (you claim in deal in)�now you�ve been offered the position of a deputy minister so you can claim I�ve a foul-mouth�I don�t have respect for you�I don�t need your respect�Listen, if you claim I�m making baseless allegations against you, I�m driving to Cape Coast, God should let me be involved in an accident�You (Baba Jamal) are describing me as a sick person? Foolish man like you�Stupid, you were lapping at my feet like a puppy�Since you became a deputy minister, what sensible thing have you ever said?...Because you�ve used your position as dep minister to amass wealth, you�re talking to me in this manner. You�re a thief!� Kennedy Agyapong said.
And for well over 25minutes, the altercation and the battle of vituperative continued unabated with the two gentlemen literary at each other�s throat, whiles the host�s call for a cessation to the verbal hostilities went unnoticed or simply ignored.
However, after a couple of minutes of the hot exchanges, Baba Jamal, in his closing remarks, apologized to listeners for any offensive word he might have used, but his �sparring partner� Kennedy Agyapong, when asked for his final comments, simply reiterated his earlier submission that the Mills� administration has worsened the plight of Ghanaians.
�First of all, I want to apologise to your loyal listeners�if in the course of this interaction I used any insulting language or did say anything bad, I crave the indulgence of your listeners to forgive me�. Ken Agyapong is trying to run roughshod over others, he thinks we�re scared of him�Just want Kennedy Agyapong to know that we�re fed up with his constant show of machismo and that there are also daring people in this country�We on this side will always ensure that the truth and the rule of law reigns supreme,� the deputy minister said.
Source: Beatrice Adepa Frempong/Peacefmonline.com
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