Sex-For-Job: Agyapong Must Apologise – Catholic Bishops

The Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference has scolded the MP for Assin Central Kennedy Agyapong over his abusive language against the chairperson of the Electoral Commission.

Mrs Charlotte Osei, according to the New Patriotic Party (NPP) lawmaker, exchanged sex for her position, attracting a barrage of condemnations from leading personalities and Civil Society Organisations.

The Bishops’ Conference has called on the legislator to “apologise unreservedly” to the boss of the electoral management body and has also called on the NPP and Parliament to “bring him to order.”

“We, like others who have spoken before us, also consider the verbal attacks on Mrs. Osei by Mr. Agyepong as distasteful, offensive and abusive and should be condemned by all. We trust in the ability of Ghana’s Parliament and the leadership of the New Patriotic Party to bring Hon. Kennedy Agyepong to order,” a statement signed by Most Rev. Joseph Osei-Bonsu, Bishop of Konongo-Mampong and President of the conference noted.

It added: “We join numerous individuals and groups who have already condemned the unwarranted verbal attack on the person and office of the Electoral Commission Chair by Hon. Kennedy Agyepong, MP for Assin Central, and call on him to apologise unreservedly to Mrs. Charlotte Osei. People in high offices such as Parliamentarians are expected to be decorous and measured in their public utterances to give good example to the youth and so when such persons betray the confidence and responsibility reposed in them by Ghanaians in this manner, it becomes very sad and worrying.

“As we inch closer to elections later this year, we wish to call on all Ghanaians, especially, politicians and their supporters, as we have done several times in past statements, to preach peace in word and deed and refrain from unwarranted verbal, physical and psychological attacks on perceived opponents.

“We want to repeat for the umpteenth time that we should not take the peace we enjoy for granted. Acts such as what has happened in Asotwe and unguarded statements from people who do not cherish peace have the potential of sparking violence. Therefore, we must be cautious of what we say and do in the name of politics in these remaining days towards elections.”