Benjamin Agordzo, the Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), has claimed that he was targeted because of a purported attempt to topple the Akufo-Addo administration.
In 2021, eight individuals, including the late Dr. Mac Palm and ACP Benjamin Agordzo, were charged with high treason and conspiracy to commit high treason.
However, ACP Benjamin Agordzo was cleared by the High Court on January 24, 2024, while six other people were found guilty of high treason and conspiracy to commit high treason.
The six people found guilty of organizing a coup have been given hanging death sentences.
He claimed that because he was aware that the prosecution lacked any evidence against him, he never considered receiving a death sentence.
“I never had that thought of being sentenced to death,” he said in an interview with Umaru Sanda Amadu on Face to Face on Citi TV. I knew there was no evidence, and I could never have been involved in that. Since there was no proof of me, I knew the stories they were crafting would fall flat.
Godfred Yeboah Dame, the Attorney General and Minister for Justice admitted that their evidence was flimsy and unreliable, but they still went ahead. And that indicates that persecution was the cause. They decided to harm me. I experienced persecution.
He blamed his persecution on his candid remarks criticizing the president. ACP Agordzo claimed that the case was delayed for five years because the government disapproved of his return to the police force.
“I’m not sure why they did that, but it could be because I’m frank, I questioned the status quo, I talked candidly about the presidency rather than a specific person, and I disclosed certain information. That was their plan; I retired and went on trial in November 2023. The government opposed my going back to work as a police officer.
For this reason, there will be no prosecution, and the case will be started up to a certain point. And when they file for another, more serious charge, the same information will be disclosed, nothing new will happen, and the charge will still be higher, according to ACP Agordzo.
He claimed that when former President John Agyekum Kufuor was in office, the NPP government began persecuting him because of a minor infraction.
“Persecution is not something that has happened to me before. I had previously been fired from the police force in 2007 for standing up for the truth under the administration of former President Kufuor for a very small offense. Before former President Kufuor left office in 2009, I had to file an appeal and was contacted again.
ACP Agordzo refuted any anti-NPP views. “I served my country, both the NPP and NDC when it mattered most. I haven’t given them any reason to dislike me, even though it’s possible that they [the NPP] don’t like me. ACP Agordzo, who announced his retirement in November 2023, hinted that he might go back to teaching.
