Kennedy Agyapong Jnr, the son of Ghanaian legislator for Assin North, Kennedy Agyapong, has narrated what happened when he attempted to use his father’s “famous” name to get out of trouble.
Kennedy Agyapong Jnr is one of the founders of Afrochella, now known as AfroFuture. He shared a story about how the use of his father’s name did not help get him out of trouble when he needed a lifeline one day.
Speaking during an interview with Andy Dosty on Hitz FM, Kennedy Jnr said “I remember when I first came to Ghana, in 2014, I was going back [to America] for holidays; I had a visa but I didn’t know that the visa was for only 60 days, which I needed to renew”.
Kennedy Agyapong Jnr thought because he had a five-year visa, he “could go [and] come,” as he pleased.
“So, this is the first time I used his [my father’s] name and it backfired”.
Recollecting his taunting ordeal at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA), Accra, he said; “I was at the airport and the Immigration Officer informed me that my visa had expired. I insisted it said five years but he showed me that the 60 days I had been given had elapsed”.
He disclosed how he got angry and challenged the officer. According to him, for the first time, he used the phrase, “Do you know who I am?”
When the officer did not give in to his demand for leniency, “I called Honourable [his politician father]”.
“The officer said [to my father], ‘He overstayed’,” the 33-year-old Kencity Media Limited boss recalled.
“I had been in Ghana for one year and there was a penalty and he [the officer] said, ‘It’s US$360, the penalty’.”
Kennedy Jnr stated that when his father spoke to the officer, he said, “Oh, let him pay the penalty.”
I was thinking he was going to bail me out, but, no, no, no, he told me to pay,” he stressed.
“They took the [penalty] money and gave me a receipt and everything, and I was like, ‘Oh, man! It didn’t work,” he smiled to himself.
Ewurama Acheampoma