{"id":448351,"date":"2017-12-19T18:11:05","date_gmt":"2017-12-19T18:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/19\/100k-charge-to-dine-with-president-embarrassing-ken-agyapong\/"},"modified":"2017-12-19T18:11:05","modified_gmt":"2017-12-19T18:11:05","slug":"100k-charge-to-dine-with-president-embarrassing-ken-agyapong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/19\/100k-charge-to-dine-with-president-embarrassing-ken-agyapong\/","title":{"rendered":"$100k charge to dine with President embarrassing \u2013 Ken 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 Tuesday, 19 December 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>adomonline.com<\/p>\n<p>2017-12-19<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/88965267.295.jpg\" alt=\"Kennedy Agyapong Cropped\" title=\"Kennedy Agyapong Cropped\" width=\"295\" height=\"208\" \/><span class=\"play-icon\">play video<\/span><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Kennedy Agyapong, Member of Parliament for Assin Central<\/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=151125817929577\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125817929577\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1513707065_717_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> The Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin Central, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong has condemned the Trade Ministry for allegedly taking money from expatriate businessmen before allowing them sit closer to President Akufo-Addo at the Ghana Expatriate Business Awards.<\/p>\n<p>The Trade Ministry has conceded that, some expatriate businesses paid undisclosed amount of money to sit close to President Akufo-Addo.<\/p>\n<p>The Member of Parliament for Asawase, Alhaji Muntaka Mubarak was the first to blow the whistle on what he viewed as illegal charges imposed on businesses by the trade ministry.<\/p>\n<p>According to Alhaji Mubarak, the Trade Ministry allegedly collected US$ 100,000 from participants at the awards held on December 8, 2017 at the Movenpick Hotel in Accra.<\/p>\n<p>The Minority Chief whip, referring to a letter dated October 23, 2017 and signed by the deputy Minister for Trade and Industry Carlos Ahenkora asked business executives who would want to sit closer to the president to pay in excess of US$ 100,000.<\/p>\n<p>But in a rebuttal, the trade ministry in a statement accused the MP of peddling falsehood and playing politics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Ministry of Trade and Industry has learnt with disdain the baseless allegations flying in the media (including social media platforms) that the Ministry charged expatriates between 25,000 and 100,000 dollars to offer them seats close to the President at the recently held Ghana Expatriate Business Awards (GEBA).<\/p>\n<p>But speaking on Adom TV\u2019s Morning Show \u201cBadwam\u201d Tuesday, the outspoken MP described the allegations as a disgrace to Ghana\u2019s democracy.<\/p>\n<p>He said it is even unacceptable for the President and the Ministers to accept donations and gifts from expatriates to protect their businesses.<\/p>\n<p>He rather accused some elements in the New Patriotic Party who did little to improve the fortunes of the party to bring down Nana Akufo-Addo\u2019s government, a move he says he will not allow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome people in the NPP are really working hard to bring this government down. You people have really disgraced President Akufo-Addo. How can you charge such huge amount of monies from expatriate businesses? It\u2019s indeed a shame to us. I will never support such disgrace acts.<\/p>\n<p>He added:  \u201cNana Addo is not asking anyone for $100k and so they should stop disgracing him and allow the man to work for Ghana,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Kennedy Agyapong however charged the Trade Ministry to immediately refund money allegedly collected from businessmen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey should refund their monies to them. I will make sure they do because it\u2019s very bad. I know Duncan William\u2019s wife is a lobbyist who has direct contact with these business men and I think she can even help instead taking huge monies from them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Watch video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M1kAmcXsaLU\" frameborder=\"0\" gesture=\"media\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 62 updated by: 62 --><\/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 Tuesday, 19 December 2017 Source: adomonline.com 2017-12-19 play videoKennedy Agyapong, Member of Parliament for Assin Central The Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin Central, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong has condemned the Trade Ministry for allegedly taking money from expatriate businessmen before allowing them sit closer to President Akufo-Addo at the Ghana Expatriate Business [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":399139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-448351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - 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