A pressure group, Alliance for Accountable Governance (AFAG) has called on the Member of Parliament for Assin North, Mr Kennedy Agyapong, to �do the honourable thing� by apologising for using tribal sentiments to air out his frustration about the on-going Biometric Voters� Registration.
�As a group, AFAG is and has always been conscious about the negative effects and repercussions tribalism has on us as a country.
Unreservedly, we condemn any attempt to tribalise politics in this country and hence urge Honourable Kennedy Agyapong to go ahead to do the honourable thing.�
The Chairman of AFAG, Dr Nana Ayew , who stated these, added, however, that �this notwithstanding, we stand by the position that there are systemic grievances and tensions, and therefore, society must rise to find solutions to these undercurrents, and desist from gathering the dust under the carpet�.
He was addressing a press conference by the alliance held on the theme �Ken Agyapong�s Motive, A Wake-Up Call� in Accra Wednesday. The press conference was in response to some comments he made on an Accra-based Oman FM which had resulted in his arrest and prosecution. Dr. Afriyie said, however, that the alliance felt the MPs comment was out of place.
�Given the sequence of events and the laid-back attitude adopted by the police in dealing with brutalities perpetrated on the section of the political divide, the comments by the MP were envisaged�.
Dr Afriyie said a careful analysis of the statement by Mr Agyapong showed that it was a conditional statement.
�Is it therefore not a clarion call on all of us to make a firm commitment to play by the rules of the very institutions we created to serve us as a people?�.
The AFAG chairman said to turn a blind eye on those whose action triggered the conditional statement and are chastising Mr Agyapong.
He believes their actions were nothing but sheer hypocrisy, adding that the alliance was opposed to the scenario where on an issue of equal measure, one was extolled while the other was demonised.
He described comments made by Mr Kpessah White of the Christian Council and the Centre for Democratic Development (CDD) on the Kennedy Agyapong�s issue as not only sentimental but hypocritical.
�In all their presentations, these groups have failed to interrogate the issue by addressing the remote cause as opposed to the sentimentally and hypocritically chastising the MP.�
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