Let’s be honest about what’s happening here.
Ken Agyapong was in parliament for six terms. That is roughly 24 years of salary, allowances, fuel coupons, ex-gratia, and every other benefit that comes with being a Ghanaian legislator. For 24 years the drainage was broken. For 24 years Accra flooded. For 24 years ordinary Ghanaians lost property, lost businesses, lost lives to something that functioning governance could have fixed.
Now he’s in opposition. Now he wants to be president. And suddenly he’s on social media owning failures and talking about the 7,000 people his private business employs.
The 7,000 jobs are real. Nobody is taking that from him. But those jobs exist because Ken Agyapong used his access, his connections, his political positioning over 24 years to build private wealth. The same system he’s now criticizing is the system that made him rich enough to employ 7,000 people.
You cannot spend two and a half decades enriching yourself inside a broken system and then present your personal net worth as evidence that you’re ready to fix it.
This is what opposition politics looks like in Ghana. The moment they lose power, the country suddenly has problems. The moment they’re aspiring for something, they suddenly feel the people’s pain. The suffering didn’t start when they lost the election. It was there the whole time. They just had better reasons to ignore it then.
At least you owned up to your share of the problem.
You are right. "We" includes me.
Six terms in Parliament. Not enough was done. I own my share of that failure.
But I did not stop there. I built.
7,000 employed. Infrastructure created. Private capital invested.
Less talking. More building. That has always been my answer.