Can Ghana afford to provide presidential protection for 22 children, 5 wives, and 7 baby mamas if Kennedy Agyapong becomes President? That’s not a household, that’s a payroll. The taxpayer would be footing millions of cedis yearly just to keep the “First Family” a small family republic or a village of spouses and children safe. Imagine a whole budget line item titled “Family Security and Maintenance.”

The President of Ghana is entitled to full state protection by elite police units, military escorts, and intelligence surveillance, all covered by the taxpayer. But the real question is: Can Ghana Afford a Presidential Household of 22 Children and 12 Women?. I don’t think presidential security in Ghana is it limited to the official First Lady and residence, or will Ghana’s national security apparatus be forced to guard an entire family republic, wives, ex-wives, baby mamas, and all their offspring scattered across the regions?

If state security has to stretch itself to cover a small “Agyapong estate,” then the presidency risks turning from a national institution into a family enterprise, adopting a clan instead of presidency funded by the public purse.

Public office isn’t inheritance; it’s stewardship. When leadership becomes a family franchise, accountability disappears behind the compound walls of privilege. Ghana cannot afford a presidency that looks more like a domestic empire than a democratic office. The cost isn’t only financial, it’s moral. It tells every young Ghanaian that power isn’t service to the people, but a license to extend one’s household into the state. And that’s the most dangerous security risk of all. The presidency must not becomes a family business.

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