Former General Secretary of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) Kwabena Agyepong has disclosed that he was not paid a penny while service as General Secretary of the NPP.
According to him, he has rather invested time and resources to promote and support the NPP because of his love for the party.
As someone who has contributed to the growth of the party, he denied earlier allegations against him that he had planned to destroy the party.
Speaking on the Class Morning Show on class91.3FM on Monday, 12 September, 2022 Mr Agyepong said “I love this party, I’ve always given to this party… we helped built this structure with our hands, we will not destroy it.”
Talking about his suspension and his return to work for the party, Mr Agyepong noted “At 2018 at the end of my tenure, I wrote to the party and said the four years has now expired because I was put on indefinite suspension and I couldn’t do any other work because I didn’t know when I’ll be called. So when my tenure was over, I was suspended as General Secretary not as a member of the party, they never responded”.
He said in his letter, he added all the expenses that he had made for the party during his time adding “I never took one cent as salary or anything and I don’t think any general secretary has done that for this party.”
“I lived in my own resident, I was not compensated for it and general secretaries have terms of conditions of service…my predecessor [Sir John], we had a room for him, in fact the party bought a house in East Legon for him and he continued to stay there even when I was general secretary and I continued to live in my residence,” he said.
In his attempt to clear the air, Mr Agyepong noted “I’m just saying this just to clarify the situation and let people appreciate the kind of treatment that I’ve been subjected to by a party that I have dedicated my youth to serve and to serve well for the last 30 or so years and I think at the point I was surprised certain elders of this party whom I’ve worked with from Adu Boahene’s time did not [intervene].
Mr Agyepong, together with Mr Paul Afoko, a former National Chairman of the NPP and Mr Sammy Crabbe, a former Vice Chairman of the NPP were suspended indefinitely by the party 2015
They were accused of working against the election of the then candidate, Nana Akufo-Addo as president, an allegation they denied.
