{"id":447966,"date":"2017-12-17T18:52:33","date_gmt":"2017-12-17T18:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/17\/my-suspension-too-long-i-miss-my-job-kwabena-agyapong\/"},"modified":"2017-12-17T18:52:33","modified_gmt":"2017-12-17T18:52:33","slug":"my-suspension-too-long-i-miss-my-job-kwabena-agyapong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/17\/my-suspension-too-long-i-miss-my-job-kwabena-agyapong\/","title":{"rendered":"My suspension too long; I miss my job \u2013 Kwabena Agyapong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Sunday, 17 December 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>classfmonline.com<\/p>\n<p>2017-12-17<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/80002590.295.jpg\" alt=\"KWABENA AGYAPONG SHEIK NEW\" title=\"KWABENA AGYAPONG SHEIK NEW\" width=\"295\" height=\"196\" \/><span class=\"play-icon\">play video<\/span><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Suspended General Secretary of the NPP, Kwabena Agyapong<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125813973067\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813973067\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1513536753_40_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> Mr Kwabena Agyepong says the national leadership of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), must listen to those clamouring for his reinstatement as General Secretary since his suspension has been \u201ctoo long\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Agyepong was suspended indefinitely along with the party\u2019s Chairman Paul Afoko and Second Vice Chair Sammy Crabbe for allegedly working against the interest of the NPP ahead of the 2016 general elections.<\/p>\n<p>The National Executive Committee of the NPP acted based on findings of the party&#8217;s Disciplinary Committee and suspended the three on 10 December 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The suspensions followed a petition brought against the three by some NPP members.<\/p>\n<p>However, some groups within the party, including polling station executives in the Ashanti Region, insist Mr Agyepong deserves to be given back his mandate.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing a press conference in Kumasi on Monday, October 16, Mr Tweneboah Kodua, convener for the group, appealed to President Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo-Addo, the National Executive Committee (NEC), the National Council of the party and former President John Agyekum Kufuor, to reconsider the suspension and call Mr Agyepong back.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;\u2026 So our humble appeal to the National Council of the party is to recall Mr Kwabena Agyei Agyepong back to his office,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Accra-based Joy News at the NPP\u2019s Extraordinary Delegates\u2019 Conference in Kumasi on Sunday, 17 December, Mr Agyepong said the leadership of the party must give an ear to those pushing for his reinstatement.<\/p>\n<p>He was asked: \u201cThere is also a strong push by some people in the party for your reinstatement, would you want the national leadership to listen to them to get you back your job?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course, I think being on suspension for over two years is too long. I think our constitution doesn\u2019t provide for that, it didn\u2019t envisage the General Secretary of the party to be absent from his job for two years, it\u2019s not there but I hope that good sense will prevail, I mean I\u2019m happy with myself, I thank God for the heart that I have, I\u2019m very content.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QjuBx5ozO-4\" frameborder=\"0\" gesture=\"media\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Mr Agyepong said he misses being General Secretary of the party he loves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course I do, I mean I got a very emphatic mandate in Tamale, very big emphatic mandate in Tamale, and that\u2019s why you see lots of people where I am, wherever I go, because the party grassroots, they recognise my long-standing dedication and service to this political tradition, and, so, I love it. Yes what happened in 2015, I\u2019ve said to you because of my love for the party, I\u2019ve been very silent, not that I agree with the decision of the national executive to suspend me, I never did but I respected that decision because I love the party and I believe that the party should be supreme, and I think in the collective interest of the bigger picture, I\u2019m happy that God has granted us our wish, we are now in government, so, any true patriot of the NPP should be seeking to do their little to support the president and his government to achieve our aims, so that we can deliver the people of Ghana; that for me is the national interest, and if we allow the national interest to determine whatever we do, all these little little things that sometimes you see, will go into the background.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In his view, a \u201cconstitution is a sacred document, I mean you touch it when there is a compelling need\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>On calls by his critics within the party for him to show remorse before being accepted back, Mr Agyepong said: \u201cYou apologise when you have done wrong and I want to be honest with you, nobody has proved any wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On President Nana Akufo-Addo, he said: \u201cI went to see him at home to congratulate him, because some of us saw that in him many years ago before many even dreamt of it and we supported him in very difficult times against the odds but life is full of a lot of thins \u2013 ups, downs \u2013 but whatever has happened has happened, he is the president, we thank God for that, and I pray that he gets all the counsel that he needs to build this country, to implement the choices that he has made for the good of the people of Ghana, that is what is most important \u2013 the Ghanaian people, the national interest and that is what we should look at, that what we should target.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RyEkovE2qeQ\" frameborder=\"0\" gesture=\"media\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gXrI2sln0tA\" frameborder=\"0\" gesture=\"media\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AvWtqy-Eb9A\" frameborder=\"0\" gesture=\"media\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 3 updated by: 3 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General News of Sunday, 17 December 2017 Source: classfmonline.com 2017-12-17 play videoSuspended General Secretary of the NPP, Kwabena Agyapong Mr Kwabena Agyepong says the national leadership of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), must listen to those clamouring for his reinstatement as General Secretary since his suspension has been \u201ctoo long\u201d. 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