My Muslim friends lined up in front of the police HQ praying for me – Ken Agyapong recounts 2012 treason trial
Kennedy Agyapong, former Member of Parliament for Assin Central, has recounted how Muslims overwhelmingly supported him during his arrest for treason in 2012.
The astute NPP politician said this during a donation of 334 bags of rice to a Muslim Community to support the needy during the Eid Mubarak celebration on March 31, 2025, in Accra.
Addressing the gathering of Muslim leaders and some community members, he shared an emotional experience with them; reiterating what he believes is the sincerity of Muslims.
“If a Muslim says he loves you, he really does. I remember when I was arrested and taken to the Police Headquarters. I was about being transferred to BNI now (National Intelligence Bureau) NIB.
“We got out and I was shocked to see my Muslim friends lined up in front of the headquarters and they were praying for me. In fact, the scene that greeted me when I was being taken away got me overwhelmed with emotions,” he said.
Background
It would be recalled that a Circuit Court in Accra acquitted and discharged Kennedy Agyapong, who was standing trial for inciting behaviour tantamount to a breach of the peace.
The decision was taken after lawyers for Agyapong argued for submission of no case at the last hearing.
His lawyer, Ayikoi Otoo filed a submission of no case on April 25, 2013, after the state concluded its case.
He argued that the state had not made out its case.
Kennedy Agyapong, therefore, had no case to answer.
The state prosecutor, Rexford Wiredu, opposed the motion but presiding judge, Ebenezer Osei Darko, dismissed the case.
The MP was facing charges of attempted treason, genocide and terrorism, after he was alleged to have made tribal comments on Oman FM, a private radio station owned by him.
But those charges were dropped and he was charged with the lesser offences of conducts conducive to the breach of the peace and causing fear and alarm.
He was arrested on Monday, April 16, 2012, after he was invited by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service over statements he allegedly made on his Accra-based radio station, Oman FM.
He was alleged to have “declared war” and vowed to lynch any fake security operative, following the alleged physical attack on Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, the immediate-past MP for Ablekuma West, and Abu Jinapor, a former aide to the 2012 NPP flagbearer, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, at Odododiodoo during the biometric registration exercise.
