The Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Benjamin Agordzor, who is being accused of masterminding the infamous “Kitchen Knife Coup” has praised Ghanaians who trusted his innocence.
The Accra High Court presided over by Justice Charles Ekow Baiden’s,, had earlier this week granted him bail after a long-drawn legal battle. However, the Ghana Police Service had ignored the court order and had kept him a few more days before finally releasing him on bail.
In a statement released shortly after his bail today, ACP Agordzor said there was no way he would be complicit in an alleged coup d’état to overthrow the elected President Akufo Addo and consequently destabilising the country.
“I like to assure those who have believed in me that I believe in democratic values such as rule of law, human rights & constitutional rule. *These are the things that drive the passion in me… I love my country so dearly I can never ever do anything to disturb the relative peace we enjoy in Ghana,” the embattled police officer stated.
“Having spent about 6 years of my life in peacekeeping missions in Sudan, Somalia and Haiti and witnessed how conflicts have ravaged those counties, I will be the last person to do anything to derail the strides we’ve made in democratic development.”
ACP Benjamin Agordzor is one of ten (10) persons charged for an attempted coup aimed at overthrowing the Akufo-Addo administration.
ACP Agordzor who has been very vocal against political interference in the security agencies has been picked up for apparently sending a Whatsup Message to a man suspected to have been planning the Kitchen Knife coup, Dr. Frederick Yao Mac-Palm, the Chief Executive Officer of the Citadel Hospital.
“Essentially, they are holding him over WhatsApp messages. The fact that he was giving advice on lawful means of holding a demonstration and donating towards a philanthropic course. They also say he said conditions for Arab spring are rife in Ghana, this something that most commentators on various issues have one point said before,” Martin Akpebu explained in interviews shortly after his client was picked up.
ACP Agordzor was picked up with a suspicious list of other top police officers, including Commissioner of Police (COP) Kofi Boakye and Superintendent Peter Lanchene Toobu, the former Executive Secretary to the immediate-past Inspector General of Police (IGP) David Asante Appeatu. The last two individuals have been linked to the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC).
Others in the alleged coup plot include a blacksmith and some military officers.