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Ardent listeners of Okay FM�s �Adeakye Abia� Morning Show were on Saturday morning treated to an unusual spectacle on radio as two honorable gentlemen, one a legislator and the other a Deputy Minister, engaged each other in an expletive laced exchange which could easily have ended up in fisticuffs if the 101.7 frequency was a boxing arena. The two public officials, the NPP Member of Parliament for Assin North constituency, Kennedy Agyapong and Deputy Minister of Information, Baba Jamal, threw all proprietary to the wind and hurled scathing insults on each other. The drama unfolded when Kennedy Agyapong who was commenting on the issue of false prophets and the constant spell of doom from some of these prophets, accused President Mills of being partly responsible for the influx of doomsayers in the country. According to him, some false prophets approached him to set up a meeting with the NPPs flagbearer, Nana Akufo-Addo so they could pray and break a curse placed on him (Nana Addo) by the renowned Prophet T.B Joshua. The NPP MP alleged that President Mills later hosted the prophets at the Peduase Lodge after he (Ken) drove them away. To him, President Mills� association with some of these false prophets has encouraged more people to indulge in fraudulent acts in the name of God. Whiles accusing the NDC of being thieves, the Assin North MP also indicted the Mills� administration of worsening the plight of Ghanaians so much so that parents are finding it difficult to pay for their wards� school fees. The Deputy Minister of Information, unhappy with the NPP MP�s remarks, sought to make an intervention. But even as the host of the show, Kwame Nkrumah �Tikese� was in the process of informing listeners that Baba Jamal was on the line to react to the false impressions put out by the Assin North MP, Kennedy Agyapong could be heard in the background screaming; �tell Baba Jamal not to come on-air�otherwise I�ll expose him.� Baba Jamal replied, �go ahead and expose me�what is there about me that you intend to expose? You make irresponsible statements and spurious allegations on-air and when I call in to react, you go on about exposure.� The CEO of Kencity Media did not take it kindly to the Deputy Minister�s reply and thus began the hot verbal exchange. Kennedy Agyapong then warned the NDC former Deputy General Secretary not to dare bring himself because he (Ken) gave him (Baba) money to marry and once rescued him (Baba) from disgrace when he got ensnarled in a visa fraud. ��you came begging like a sick dog in Parliament asking for money to go and marry and I was the same person who rescued you when you got involved in a visa fraud, and today because you have been given a deputy ministerial position, you can challenge me on radio?� But Baba Jamal stridently denied ever taking money from Kennedy Agyapong, describing him as a big liar. ��You cannot lie against me�you never gave me any money and I never got involved in any visa fraud� Do you know when and where I got married? Today I will let everybody know what a big liar you are�you cannot lie against me�You are not in your right frame of mind (Wonye correct)�it is very sad that people like you can also come on radio and talk. If Ghana was a serious country, we wouldn�t allow someone like you to talk on radio�if this was to be some other country; someone like you would never be allowed to speak on-air,� he said.