Thus saith Kennedy Agyapong: ‘IF YOU MADE MONEY IN ACCRA AND TELL ME YOU ARE GONG INTO FARMING, YOU ARE A FOOL. ’”
From loud promises to barren fields, how Kennedy Agyepong’s cassava farm and political record expose the emptiness behind his self-proclaimed success. He called it a revolution in agriculture. He promised jobs, wealth, and transformation. But years later, Kennedy Agyepong’s much-touted cassava farm project with Paa Kwasi Ndom has vanished leaving behind not a single thriving acre, only echoes of unfulfilled boasts.
Again I asked, what became of Kennedy Agyepong’s much-publicized and much-touted cassava farm project he launched and claimed to have started with Paa Kwasi Ndom? The initiative, once paraded as a model of rural transformation, has quietly vanished into the same fog that swallows most of his grand promises. With all the wealth and government contracts he cornered through the Ashanti Regional ministerial appointees he personally handpicked, except Asenso, one would expect at least a single thriving acre of cassava to bear witness to his boasts. Yet, as usual, there is plenty of noise, no harvest, and not even a credible trace of progress or accountability.
The tattered condition in which he has left Assin Central after twenty-four years as MP marked by poverty, disunity, and neglect remains his truest legacy. He cannot boast of anything he done in his constituency. If this is the measure of his leadership, then Ghana must beware: for the man who could not grow a cassava in Assin Central cannot be trusted to grow a nation. For a man who never tires of proclaiming his riches from the rooftops, Kennedy Agyepong’s business record tells a different story, one riddled with unfinished projects, inflated claims, and vanishing enterprises. From the loud promises of industrial revolution to the phantom cassava farms and half-hearted factory ventures, his supposed empire of success often collapses under the lightest scrutiny.
He preaches hard work and honesty, yet his fortune has long been intertwined with the very system of favoritism and political patronage he pretends to condemn. The same man who derides others for corruption has built his wealth through the backdoor of state contracts, the very privilege he now denounces in others. It is the height of hypocrisy for one who thrives on the spoils of power and kickbacks to disguise himself as a champion of integrity.
His public posture of humility is but a performance one that fades the moment a camera rolls or a crowd cheers. He mistakes arrogance for courage and noise for leadership. And in his world of self-praise, truth is an inconvenience, not a virtue.
History has a cruel way of humbling the loud and exposing the hollow. Kennedy Agyepong’s rise has been noisy, but noise has never built nations vision and character do. For twenty-four years, he sat in Parliament with the privilege to transform his own constituency, yet left behind dust, despair, and division. Now he seeks to sell the same failure to the rest of Ghana, wrapped in slogans and bluster. But leadership is not theatre, and patriotism is not performance. The time has come for Ghanaians to choose builders over barkers, substance over showmanship, and truth over the thunder of empty boasts.
Osɔfo Nii Naate Atswele Agbo Nartey
