{"id":448956,"date":"2017-12-21T11:52:28","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T11:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/21\/mps-without-ministerial-appointments-cant-be-corrupt-kennedy-agyapong\/"},"modified":"2017-12-21T11:52:28","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T11:52:28","slug":"mps-without-ministerial-appointments-cant-be-corrupt-kennedy-agyapong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/21\/mps-without-ministerial-appointments-cant-be-corrupt-kennedy-agyapong\/","title":{"rendered":"MPs without ministerial appointments can\u2019t be corrupt &#8211; Kennedy 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 Thursday, 21 December 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>mynewsgh.com<\/p>\n<p>2017-12-21<\/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\/24337684.295.jpg\" alt=\"Kennedy Agyapong 22\" title=\"Kennedy Agyapong 22\" width=\"295\" height=\"167\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Kennedy Agyapong is 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\/1513857148_761_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> It is a bit difficult for Members of Parliament (MPs) without ministerial portfolios to be corrupt, New Patriotic Party (NPP) financier and Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Hon. Kennedy Ohene Agyapong believes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will be a very difficult for a parliamentarian who is not probably a minister who has a budget to be corrupt\u2026.it is difficult because you are not working\u2026..you are relying on your salary from parliament so you cannot be corrupted\u201d, he explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am not saying ministers are corrupt\u2026..those who have budgets probably Chief Executives, people with cooperation [and] those who have budgets to spend they can be corrupt\u201d, he explained further.<\/p>\n<p>Hon. Kennedy Ohene Agyapong spoke on GHOne\u2019s State of Affairs program during a one-on-one interview with host Nana Aba Anamoah.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the likely way for a lawmaker to become corrupt is when he is a minister or deputy minister of state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf an MP becomes a minister and he has opportunity to spend money on his budget probably you can say he is corrupt\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The controversial lawmaker who is accusing past appointees under the erstwhile National Democratic Congress (NDC) government of being corrupt, is worried the present administration is refusing to haul them before court.<\/p>\n<p>He is of the view that the delay in prosecuting them could lead most of them shielding evidence and getting away with the crimes they perpetrated which has cost the country in many ways.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 50 updated by: -1 --><\/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 Thursday, 21 December 2017 Source: mynewsgh.com 2017-12-21 Kennedy Agyapong is member of Parliament for Assin Central It is a bit difficult for Members of Parliament (MPs) without ministerial portfolios to be corrupt, New Patriotic Party (NPP) financier and Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Hon. Kennedy Ohene Agyapong believes. \u201cIt will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":397613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-448956","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 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>MPs without ministerial appointments can\u2019t be corrupt - Kennedy Agyapong - Ghanamma.com<\/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.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/21\/mps-without-ministerial-appointments-cant-be-corrupt-kennedy-agyapong\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"MPs without ministerial appointments can\u2019t be corrupt - Kennedy Agyapong - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"General News of Thursday, 21 December 2017 Source: mynewsgh.com 2017-12-21 Kennedy Agyapong is member of Parliament for Assin Central It is a bit difficult for Members of Parliament (MPs) without ministerial portfolios to be corrupt, New Patriotic Party (NPP) financier and Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Hon. 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