{"id":591838,"date":"2019-02-15T18:01:46","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T18:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n\t\t\n<p> <br\/><strong>Kennedy Agyapong <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>THE PRIVILEGES Committee of Parliament has found\nMember of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong, guilty of contempt\nfor making disparaging comments against Parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>"},"modified":"2019-02-15T18:01:46","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T18:01:46","slug":"ken-agyapong-guilty-of-contempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/02\/15\/ken-agyapong-guilty-of-contempt\/","title":{"rendered":"Ken Agyapong Guilty Of Contempt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Kennedy Agyapong <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>THE PRIVILEGES Committee of Parliament has found<br \/>\nMember of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong, guilty of contempt<br \/>\nfor making disparaging comments against Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>Chaired by First Deputy Speaker of Parliament,<br \/>\nJoe Osei-Owusu, the Committee in a report observed that it \u201cconcluded the<br \/>\nmatter in the light of the totality of the evidence gathered, and, in<br \/>\naccordance with the provisions of the Constitution, the Standing Orders and<br \/>\nother relevant enactments.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Committee, it also \u201cconcluded<br \/>\nthat the Hon. Member for Assin Central Constituency, Mr. Ken OheneAgyapong is,<br \/>\nindeed, in contempt of Parliament for the remarks he made that \u2018Parliament is<br \/>\ncheap\u2019 and \u2018Parliament is useless\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Committee has recommended that the Parliament<br \/>\nadopts the report and \u201csanction Hon. Ken OheneAgyapong by suspending him for<br \/>\nthe rest of this Session or reprimand him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Agyapong\u2019s alleged insult was reported to<br \/>\nthe House by Minority Chief Whip Alhaji Muntaka Mubarak, and the Speaker<br \/>\nsubsequently referred the matter to the Privileges Committee.<\/p>\n<p>NDC Member of Parliament for Asawase, Alhaji Muntaka, said Mr. Agyapong had stated in audio and video tapes he provided to the Committee that \u201cif this House were not useless, they would not have the likes of Mr. Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu as its leader.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>BY Melvin Tarlue <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/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>Kennedy Agyapong THE PRIVILEGES Committee of Parliament has found Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong, guilty of contempt for making disparaging comments against Parliament. Chaired by First Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Joe Osei-Owusu, the Committee in a report observed that it \u201cconcluded the matter in the light of the totality of the evidence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":591839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-591838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ken Agyapong Guilty Of Contempt - 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\/2019\/02\/15\/ken-agyapong-guilty-of-contempt\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Ken Agyapong Guilty Of Contempt - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Kennedy Agyapong THE PRIVILEGES Committee of Parliament has found Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong, guilty of contempt for making disparaging comments against Parliament. 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