MEET KAA
Kwabena Agyei Agyepong was born on 6th March 1962 at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi, the capital city of the Ashanti Region of Ghana, on the fifth anniversary celebration of Ghana’s Independence to Lawyer Kwadwo Agyei Agyepong and Mrs Margaret Agyepong a Stenographer Secretary.
Kwabena Agyei Agyepong had his primary education at Royal International School in Kumasi where he topped the Common Entrance Examinations and gained admission to the famous Mfanstipim School, Cape Coast where he passed his O–Levels with Distinction in 1979. He continued at Mfantsipim for his A-Level education and was appointed the Library Prefect. After completing his A-Levels in 1981, Kwabena gained admission to the University of Science and Technology, Kumasi to study Civil Engineering.
It was during his first year at university that tragedy struck. His father, Justice Kwadwo Agyei Agyepong was tragically one of the three High Court Judges who were abducted and savagely murdered together with a retired Army Officer during curfew hours on the 30th of June 1982, six months into the December 31st Revolution led by the then retired Air Force Officer Jerry John Rawlings.
The gruesome events notwithstanding and with no one to turn to, Kwabena Agyei Agyepong struggled his way through college to earn his BSc Degree (Civil Engineering) in 1986. Kwabena defied the trauma of this tragic personal loss with mental fortitude, endurance and divine inspiration. Later on he will earn an MSc Degree with Distinction in Water and Environmental Engineering from the University of Surrey, Guildford, UK.
A Fellow of the Ghana Institution of Engineering GhIE, and a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers ASCE, Ing Agyepong is a Consulting Engineer with expert knowledge in Environmental, Water and Sanitation Engineering. He possesses wide-ranging experience in Project Management from Concept Planning, Design, Procurement, Construction Supervision, Project Commissioning and Asset Management spanning over three decades.
Ing Agyepong remarkably combined his professional engineering career with his other loves, sports broadcasting and politics. He became a celebrity in Ghana having anchored the primetime ‘Sports Highlights’ TV show on the only national network the GBC-TV during which time he attended and covered the Seoul 1988, Barcelona 1992 and Atlanta 1996 Olympic Games.
His life is underpinned by three main virtues Service, Sacrifice and Selflessness – a truly timeless legacy instilled in him by his strict father. His tragic death lit an eternal flame in Kwabena and inspired a deep passion for political activism that led him to play a front-line role in the political struggle that returned Ghana from Rawlings’s ruthless military dictatorship to democratic constitutional rule as the 4th Republic was birthed.
Kwabena’s longstanding dedicated service to the New Patriotic Party NPP is a matter of public record having availed himself to the party especially during the times of adversity from the Adu Boahen era in 1992 through to the historic victory of Dec 2000 that brought JA Kufuor to the Presidency.
In 2001, Ing Agyepong was appointed Press Secretary to the President and Presidential Spokesman, a position he held with excellence till May 2006. In July 2008, he was decorated by President Kufuor with the Officer of the Order of Volta, OV. In April 2014 he was massively elected as the General Secretary of the NPP. His tenure as General Secretary was however unceremoniously curtailed halfway under a sleuth of concocted allegations and vile propaganda.
Subsequently Ing served as the Executive Director of the Ghana Institution of Engineering GhIE and he is credited with strengthening the institution and making the GhIE more vibrant with a stronger public profile, visibility and increased national and global relevance. He was recently honored with the highly coveted Federation of African Engineering Organizations FAEO award for distinguished service to FAEO.
Kwabena’s autobiography offers a powerful and interesting insight into his life as a family man, a sports broadcaster, a politician and loyal passionate NPP party man. His unique story will inspire, educate and explain Ghana’s political structure and the political struggles that define Ghanaians as a determined people still with some way to go as the Black Star of Africa.