Counsel for the senior police officer who has been charged with treason for his alleged involvement in a coup plot says his client’s family has been denied access to him.<\/p>\n
Martin Pkebu said ACP Dr Benjamin Agordzor\u2019s family have been at the offices of the BNI since 6 a.m.Tuesday but officials there will not allow them to see him.<\/p>\n
\u201cSince morning, it is only the receptionist who has spoken to us. They\u2019ve denied his wife, sons, sister, uncles, sister and brothers access. They have been here since 6:30 AM. I came much later and I have also been denied access.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt one point, his wife and the rest of the family were told, they will be granted access at 8 a.m. 8 a.m. came, no show and then the story has been changing\u2026now we just don\u2019t know what to do,\u201d Mr Kpebu said in an interview on Joy News at midday.<\/p>\n
ACP Dr Benjamin Agordzor, the Director of Transformational Programme Office at the Police Service, was charged with abetment to commit treason on Monday.<\/p>\n
He has been accused of communicating with the alleged coup plotters who the government said had been cooking an elaborate plan to destabilise the country.<\/p>\n
At the BNI offices, ACP Agordzor was confronted with the messages from a group platform on WhatsApp in which he had allegedly advised members who were planning a demonstration to seek police permit.<\/p>\n
It has also emerged that he donated GHS2,000 to that same platform and assisted the alleged leader of the coup plotter, Dr Frederick Yao Mac-Palm through messages he sent on the instant messaging platform. The nature of that assistance has not been clarified.<\/p>\n
The police officer has been denied bail and was kept in BNI custody overnight.<\/p>\n
In an interview on Joy News, Martin Kpebu expressed surprise at his client\u2019s arrest for a comment on WhatsApp, questioning why his family has not been allowed to see him.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is traumatising. This is unbecoming, we will not tolerate that in this country. Yesterday for over 7 hours, they confronted us with only WhatsApp messages.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is not a man who has been accused of acquiring a needle, scissors or a knife for a coup, no that is not it, only WhatsApp messages in which he said Ghana has conditions rife for an Arab Spring,\u201d a baffled Kpebu said.<\/p>\n
For Mr Kpebu, many Ghanaians, including himself have made similar comments so that cannot be grounds for an arrest and a treason charge.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat is treasonous about this,\u201d he queried.<\/p>\n
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source: myjoyonline<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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