Charles Opoku, a New Patriotic Party (NPP) member and deputy National TESCON coordinator, has called on the Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide Kwaku Baako to forgive the party for their sins.
According to the NPP’s deputy TESCON coordinator, the party stood by and allowed Kennedy Agyapong, a former Assin Central legislator and now presidential aspirant, to insult and criticise Kwaku Baako when he had not committed any crime.
He highlighted that Kwaku Baako, at the time, was going to media houses, defending the NPP and also dismantling the NDC propaganda against the party.
Speaking in a viral self-recorded video, the NPP man stated, “Uncle Kwaku Baako, happy new year. I hope you are doing well wherever you are. I am Charles Opoku, a NPP member, deputy National TESCON coordinator. Uncle Kwaku Baako, we in the NPP are begging you. We are going down on our knees to plead with you. We plead that we stoodby and allowed Kennedy Agyapong to insult and criticise you at a time you had not committed any crime.
Please, I am begging, forgive us, especially those of us, the youth, whose NPP future is on us. For NPP to be well or not, it will be on us, the youth. The work you were doing for the NPP going to media houses to defend the party and dismantle the NDC propaganda.
If you have the strength, help the NPP and forgive us of our sins”.
Meanwhile, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako Jr., some years ago, won a defamatory suit against Kennedy Agyapong.
Ken Agyapong had claimed that Kwaku Baako was involved in illegal small-scale mining (galamsey).
The case, which was instituted in 2018, ended in 2020 with the court ruling in favour of Baako.
Kweku Baako was awarded ¢100,000 with the cost of ¢30,000 in damages.
The court also gave the then MP 30 days to retract and apologise three times on the same platform he made those claims.
On 5th May 2023, three years down the line, Mr Agyapong appealed the judgment in court.
Parts of the appeal, “Among the primary issues in contention on this appeal is a commentary made by the applicant [Kennedy Agyapong] about the respondent’s[Kwaku Baako] involvement in galamsey activities by intervening on behalf of a company called C&G Aleska.
The said intervention had to do with the defendant [Kennedy Agyapong] calling on the Minister for Environment Science, Technology and Innovation who was the Chairman of the Inter-ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining (IMCIM) to allow C&G Aleska to go back on site and continue its illegal mining activities although its license had been revoked confirming respondent’s [Kwaku Baako] influence peddling which also amounts to his involvement in galamsey”.
“The said intervention resulted in the applicant’s [Kennedy Agyapong] commentary that the respondent [Kwaku Baako] was also involved in galamsey. During the trial, the applicant’s [Kennedy Agyapong] effort to get the Chairman of the IMCIM [Frimpong-Boateng] to testify and corroborate the same proved futile, therefore, resulted in the applicant [Kennedy Agyapong] unable to prove his defense of true, fair comment and thus justified.
On the 18th day of April 2023, the applicant [Kennedy Agyapong] chanced upon a confidential document from the Office of the President of Ghana with an attached report prepared by Prof Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng which intrinsically addressed the applicant’s [Kennedy Agyapong]concerns and the role played by the respondent [Kwaku Baako] on behalf of C&G Aleska which was involved in galamsey activities.”
Watch the video below:
Uncle Please we are Sorry 😢 pic.twitter.com/CA5Nad88GS
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