‘I am a millionaire but I am not rich’ – Kennedy Agyapong

The Assin Central Member of Parliament, Kennedy Agyapong, says he does not consider himself rich although he is a millionaire.

“I don’t let that get into my head”, the popular philanthropist said in a JoyNews interview, monitored by theghanareport.com.

The New Patriotic Party MP said he would consider himself rich if he attained a billionaire status, and to that end, he stated that he was still working hard to make money.

The wealth and worth of the rich in Ghana are at best guesstimate, and a person’s wealth is often down to what he says.

Kennedy Agyapong has said he owns a chain of houses. He is also a media mogul and runs Net 2 television and Oman TV. That is in addition to businesses in the energy sector.

The MP, known for his tantrums as well as his philanthropy, said the highest amount of money he has had to part away in a single kind gesture was 40,000 cedis.

He said it was to pay for a hole-in-heart operation. “And now he is alive,” he beamed.

Kennedy Agyapong put the number of students he has had to pay their fees at 3,000 and said helping people giving him much satisfaction than anything else.

Despite his economic status, Kennedy Agyapong said material possessions don’t impress him.

“I don’t value all these properties because one day I will leave it. I don’t cherish the world.”

Ken, the religion vigilante

The MP who has found a fresh target for his occasion moral crusades. It used to be against corruption as his popularity grew large in his campaign against graft.

A major highlight of that is the 2009 Woyome judgment debt case when he revealed the payment of more than 50million in judgment debt to businessman Alfred Woyome.

Well in 2020, the NPP MP is now on fake pastors, a brand of braggart and human rights abusers who in the name of God exploit poor masses.

Through his expose’, Obidim is fighting a criminal prosecution and the Assin Central MP said he is not finished with him.

“I have a thousand and one evidence against him,” he said and revealed EOCO would soon join in investigating him in a fresh case of money laundering. “I am not going to rest”, he revealed a resolve to expose fake pastors.

He said he has photos of Obinim applying for a passport despite boasting to his congregation about his abilities to supernaturally command passports for his members.

“He has done harm to a lot of people in the country,” he said, alleging exploitation and fraud.

Obinim won’t be his last target. “I have a dossier on them,” he said and revealed he has an extensive network of informants who are happy to bring information for his attention.

He never pays for information, he said, explaining people have come to trust him “more than the system.”

Kennedy Agyapong said there is another ally in his fight against corruption. It is coronavirus. He said some men of God are pressurising the president to lift the ban on public gathering in the wake of coronavirus.

“See how God has exposed these fake pastors” he pointed out and said if he was the president, churches would remain closed.

The NPP MP revealed his own criteria in spotting genuine men of God. It is that they are not rich, he indicated.

I believe in God but I don’t go to church

Kennedy Agyapong called church attendance a “waste of time,” but he wasted no time in dismissing any notion that he is an atheist.

“I believe in God. I don’t want you to teach me who God is,” he revealed his difficulty in submitting to a sermon from the pulpit.

He said the mystery of sleeping, a moment when a person is unaware, even shows there is God.

It is the organised activities around God that he found difficult to appreciate.