{"id":95063,"date":"2015-02-27T16:36:40","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T16:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=95063"},"modified":"2015-02-27T16:39:12","modified_gmt":"2015-02-27T16:39:12","slug":"i-dont-deal-in-drugs-but-85-of-ghanaian-businessmen-do-ken-agyepong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=95063","title":{"rendered":"I don\u2019t deal in drugs but 85% of Ghanaian businessmen do &#8211; Ken Agyepong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Controversial Member of Parliament for Assin Central\u00a0Kennedy Agyepong has alleged\u00a0that about 85% of Ghanaian businessmen deal in narcotic drugs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;uduh6FeBgtc9roh36RhST6FVUAZBaDEZ&#8221;]\u201cYou see, the drug dealers in the long run they save money. I will be honest with you; about 85% of the successful businessmen in this country one way or the other dealt in drugs,\u201d he stressed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kennedy Agyepong a businessman and considered by many as a rich man, was responding to allegations that have been leveled against him in the past that he is drug dealer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When asked about his view on the tag, Kennedy Agyepong rubbished the allegations saying, &#8220;When I was washing plates in Germany,\u00a0where were you? When I was driving taxi in America, where were you? When I was a gas attendant, where were you? When I was working with Lawyer Asiedu Amnesty programme in New York where were you? Then you just think the guy has made money and therefore he is a drug dealer? I won&#8217;t accept it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Assin Central legistor made these statements on TV3\u2019s New Day programme on Friday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kennedy Agyepong who is also the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Kencity Multimedia bragged that he has a total of 108 houses.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said 26 of his properties are located in the rich areas of East Legon in Accra.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Godwin Allotey Akweiteh\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlloteyGodwin\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @AlloteyGodwin<\/a><br \/>\n<script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Controversial Member of Parliament for Assin Central\u00a0Kennedy Agyepong has alleged\u00a0that about 85% of Ghanaian businessmen deal in narcotic drugs. 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I will be honest with you; about 85% of the successful businessmen in this country one way or the other dealt in drugs,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":95072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[43,38],"class_list":["post-95063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/95072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}