Kennedy Ohene Agyapong built one of Ghana's largest private business empires, KenCity Group, spanning radio, television, retail, agriculture and civil engineering, before politics ever entered the picture.

Born in the Central Region and educated partly in the United States, his path from trader to media owner is the throughline of this profile, with his long-running political career noted only where it is unavoidable.

Early Life and Education

Kennedy Agyapong was born on June 16, 1960, in Assin Dompim in Ghana's Central Region, to Francis Ohene Kofi Agyapong and Mary Nsiah.

He attended Adisadel College in Cape Coast before furthering his education in the United States at Fordham University in New York. His years abroad, including working ordinary jobs to support himself, are the period he has credited most for shaping his approach to business.

Building KenCity Group

Agyapong's business career started in trading and importing in the 1990s, through ventures including Mina D'oro Ventures, Gold Coin Communication and Imperial World Business.

That early trading capital grew into a diversified group of companies now generally referred to as KenCity Group, including:

  • Media: Oman FM, Net2 TV and Ashh FM, part of a broadcasting stable that made him one of Ghana's most prominent independent media owners.
  • Retail: Hollywood Shopping Centre in Accra and the Supercare Company, an electronics and appliance retailer with a national service network.
  • Construction: Constro Consult, a civil engineering and construction firm.
  • Agriculture: Assin Farms, a poultry and food production operation in the Central Region, alongside cold storage facilities he has described as among the largest of their kind in the country.

He has said the group employs several thousand people across these businesses, though the figure is his own and has not been independently audited.

Political Role

Alongside his business career, Agyapong has represented the New Patriotic Party in Parliament continuously since 2000, first for Assin North and later for Assin Central. In 2023, he contested the NPP's presidential primary and lost to Mahamudu Bawumia.

Controversies

Agyapong's media career has drawn as much attention as his business ventures, including two episodes widely covered in Ghana and internationally.

In January 2018, he broadcast the photograph and personal details of Ahmed Hussein-Suale, an undercover investigator working with journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas, on Net2 TV. Hussein-Suale was shot dead near his home in January 2019. Agyapong was never charged over the killing, but press freedom organisations, including the Committee to Protect Journalists and Reporters Without Borders, criticised the broadcast for exposing Hussein-Suale to danger.

Separately, Anas sued Agyapong for defamation over comments made on a Ghanaian talk show. A US jury initially awarded Anas $18 million in damages; in May 2025, the trial judge reduced that award to $500 after finding the original sum excessive.

Why It Matters

Whatever view Ghanaians take of his politics, Agyapong's business record is a genuine case study: a trader who built a media house, a retail chain, a construction firm and a farming operation without outside investors, at a scale few Ghanaian entrepreneurs have matched.