[BREAKING NEWS] ACP Agordzo and two others acquitted; six others sentenced to death over coup plot
Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Dr Benjamin Agordzo and two others have been acquitted and discharged in the coup plot case.
The two others are Colonel Gameli and another junior military officer, Corporal Seidu Abubakar.
Meanwhile, six other accused persons have been sentenced to death by hanging for their various roles in the coup plot case.
The six convicts are Donya Kafui, aka Ezor (a blacksmith), Bright Alan Debrah Ofosu (a fleet manager), Johannes Zikpi (a civilian employee of the Ghana Armed Forces), Warrant Officer II Esther Saan Dekuwine, Lance Corporal Ali Solomon and Corporal Sylvester Akanpewon.
It will be recalled that a high-ranking police officer, ACP Benjamin Agordzo, Dr Frederick Yao Mac Palm (now deceased), a medical doctor, and eight others were hauled before the court for plans to destabilize the country.
The eight other accused persons are Colonel Samuel Kodzo Gameli, Donya Kafui, Bright Alan Debrah Ofosu, Johannes Zikpi, Corporal Seidu Abubakar, Lance Corporal Ali Solomon, Warrant Officer II Esther Saan Dekuwine and Corporal Sylvester Akanpewon.
The accused persons were arrested in June 2018 for being members of the ‘Take Action Ghana’, a non-governmental organization allegedly with an “elaborate plot targeted at the Presidency”.
Per the facts, as part of the plot, Dr Mac-Palm (deceased), Kafui, and Debrah planned on kidnapping the President, the Vice-President, the Speaker of Parliament, and the Chief of the Defence Staff and force the President to announce his overthrow.
Dr Mac-Palm invited Kafui, a blacksmith at Alavanyo, to move to Accra to manufacture 22 explosives, six ammunition, and five pistols for the group to further the plot.
Regarding ACP Dr. Agordzo, he is said to have donated GH¢2,000 to TAG to aid its cause and drafted a speech for Dr. Mac-Palm to be read at a planned demonstration by TAG.
The three-member panel of the High Court presided over by Justice Afia Serwah Asare-Botwe, a Justice of the Court of Appeal, read the judgment today, (Wednesday, January 24, 2024).