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The High Court in Accra has found ACP Dr. Benjamin Kwasi Agordzo, a senior officer in the Ghana Police Service, not guilty of aiding and abetting the overthrow of the government.
The ruling, which was rendered on Wednesday, January 24, by the three-judge panel, represents a major development in the court case pertaining to the purported coup attempt.
Full of expectation, the courtroom saw the verdicts on the various charges against the defendants read out.
Colonel Gameli, Assistant Commissioner of Police Benjamin Agordzo, and Corporal Seidu Abubakar, a junior military officer, have also been found not guilty.
The presumed mastermind, the late Dr. Frederick Yao Mac Palm, was officially named the first accused after his death. Donya Kafui, the second accused, was found guilty of both high treason and conspiracy to commit high treason. Likewise, Bright Allan Debrah Ofosu, the third defendant, was found guilty of both high treason and conspiracy to commit high treason.
The only woman among the accused, Warrant Officer Class Two Esther Saan Dekuwine, was found not guilty of high treason but guilty of conspiracy to commit high treason.
However, the seventh accused, Cpl Seidu Abubakar, was found not guilty of high treason or conspiracy to commit high treason. The eighth accused, Lance Corporal Ali Solomon, was found guilty of conspiracy but not high treason, receiving a mixed verdict.
ACP Dr. Benjamin Agordzo, claims that ever since the court case involving the coup plotter was filed, he knew he would be found not guilty.
Six coup conspirators were found guilty by the Accra High Court of both high treason and conspiracy to commit high treason.
However, ACP Agordzo, Colonel Samuel Kodzo Gameli, and Corporal Seidu Abubakar, a junior military officer, were all found not guilty by the court.
The six people found guilty of organizing a coup have been given hanging death sentences.
Happy that they had been cleared, ACP Agordzo and his family waved their hands in thanksgiving to God while singing “Jehovah Is Your Name” by Ntokozo Mbambo.
Source: Ghanatodayonline.com
