Ken Agyapong Mad

A new twist has been added to the Amina Yutong sex bus story, as Kennedy Agyapong, the Assin North MP and media magnate, denies ever meeting Michael Ofosu Frimpong, the boy at the centre of the story, let alone offering him money to concoct a tale.

This gives a fresh whiff of controversy to an already-jinxed affair.

Mr Agyapong, a leading member of the NPP, has described the story as a cock-and-bull tale, and part of a grand design by the NDC to smear him with slur in a bid to silence him quickly, adding that “it will not wash.”

He is praying for an opportunity to be invited to court to testify in the matter and as he put it, he would say it all about the clandestine machinations by the NDC in the matter.

“My wish is that the court will invite me so that the man will tell me where I met him together with Attafuah, Adakabre, Jake and Osafo Maafo to coach him. Foolish man like him, does he deserve GH¢90,000?” he fumed.

Michael Frimpong, who surfaced from the blues to corroborate the Amina sex bus story on a radio station, is now a prosecution witness in the matter which is before court, claiming in the new twist that a number of New Patriotic Party (NPP) personalities engaged him to undertake the assignment for a fee of GH¢90,000, (¢900million), a revelation whose integrity many have doubted.

This is in sharp contrast to what he said with glee on Great FM, an Achimota-based radio station, from where he was picked up and detained at the Teshie Police Station for a long time until he was transferred to the Nsawam Prisons.

The witness, who is facing a charge of causing fear and alarm, is now cooling off at the CID cells at the Police Headquarters in Accra after his testimony at the court.

He called DAILY GUIDE from the cell on Saturday afternoon for urgent information, but the policemen on duty did not allow the paper entry.

Kennedy Agyapong is not alone in the denial and condemnation of the new twist, having been joined by Prof Ken Attafuah, counsel for Amina, who has noted that what happened in court last Friday “was a sad commentary for Ghana’s jurisprudence.”

Speaking on Asempa FM, he regarded the testimony of Michael Frimpong as a fabrication, the outcome of a masterminding act by the prosecution.

He added, “It is a very sad allegation for anyone to make. It is completely untrue. It never happened and this is a fabrication by sections of the Ghana Police Service and the Attorney General’s Department intended to dishonor the honour, dignity and reputation of honourable men in the country.”

His fear ties in with Kennedy Agyepong’s who stated that “I do not know the guy who is making the allegation”, adding that it was part of a smear campaign by the NDC to silence and disgrace him.

Kennedy Agyapong, the owner of Kencity Media, has been the subject of heightened strings of coordinated attacks from NDC quarters on radio stations sympathetic to the ruling party.

But for the admonitions from some well-wishers to discount such machinations, he said, “I would have given it to the NDC”, to wit hitting back at them.

The GH¢90,000, according to Kennedy Agyapong, could have been used in a more productive venture instead of an unnecessary agenda as being alleged by the man he said he has never met.

By the development, he said, the government had cheapened itself by hitting below the belt, adding, “I don’t know what the NDC wants from me and I have vowed never to remain silent.”

The deputy Majority Leader in Parliament, Rashid Pelpuo, has debunked allegations that government was responsible for the new twist in the Amina story.

The Wa Central MP told Citi FM that Prof Attafuah’s allegations were untrue, adding that government could not be responsible for the new developments.

The Amina sex bus story appears to be set for a long haul with the new twist.

Amina, the Ashaiman-based Dagomba lady, had claimed in an interview on Adom FM that there was mass rape on a Yutong bus on its way to the North as ordered by armed robbers on 11th October 2010.

An aspect of the story which prompted public outcry was about a man who was forced to deflower his virgin daughter.

The story was politicized, with the President summoning security chiefs to the Castle who assured him that it was hoax.

The police verdict, even before investigations ended in the case, created disquiet among political observers who queried the security agents for jumping the gun.

Enter Michael Frimpong voluntarily on a radio station to corroborate Amina’s story; but he has now revised his disclosures, accusing some politicians of engaging him to cook the story in support of Amina, making murkier an already seemingly incredulous story mired in local partisan politics.

He told an Accra circuit court hearing the Amina case that he lied for a prize from NPP gurus.

He said he went on to Adom FM where Prof Attafuah and Mr Kubi, counsel for Amina told him, “if I could help Amina and Adom FM, they will reward me but I did not agree… I went to sleep on the matter and thought about it.”

He said he was taken to Asylum Down-based NPP Headquarters, where he met Mr Jake Obestebi-Lamptey, Osafo Maafo and Kennedy Agyapong.

“Mr Obestebi-Lamptey showed me the money and I became scared.”

He said they told him that the ruling government had promised the nation that they would work hard to reduce rape and armed robbery but these were still happening.

“I informed my church leader about the offer and he advised me to decline it.”

He said Mr Appiah-Kubi took him to Multi TV studio in Accra and left him there till 1900 hours where he was blindfolded and filmed.

“I was introduced to Amina for the first time at the Nima Police Station where I met Prof Attafuah.

Counsel: In the last three weeks, have you visited the psychiatric hospital?

Witness: Yes!

Counsel: What necessitated it?

Witness: A judge in circuit court one, ordered me to go to the Psychiatric Hospital.

Counsel: Who was your counsel on the day?

Witness: My Lord, Lawyer Appiah Kubi.

Counsel: I’m therefore suggesting it to you that you are most untruthful?

Witness: I’m speaking the truth.

Counsel: Are you still in custody?

Witness: Yes my lord.

Counsel: There was a note that you wrote to be given to your lawyer?

Witness: I wrote that it should be given to CID to be given to my wife and not through my lawyer.

Counsel: Could you tell the court the content of the note?

Witness: My wife is pregnant and I wrote that she may not see me again. She should not terminate the pregnancy and should name the child after my mother.

When one is born a male child he goes through problems and death.

Counsel: Did you complain about torture in the cell?

Witness: My lord I don’t know.

Source: Daily Guide