Retired Assistant Commissioner of Police, Dr. Benjamin Kwasi Agordzo, has described Godfred Yeboah Dame as the most vindictive Attorney General and Minister of Justice he has ever known in Ghana’s history.
He said in an interview with Yaa Titi on Onua FM’s ‘Pae Mu Ka‘ current affairs show on Wednesday October, 23, 2024, that per the treatment he was subjected to under the hands of Mr. Dame, he can on a personal level conclude that the A-G is a very vindictive person.
“From my personal view, I can say that Attorney-General, Godfred Dame is the most vindictive person I have ever known,” Agordzo stated.
The retired police officer was recounting his experience with the justice system of Ghana which he has written in his soon to be launched book.
He claimed that considering the anomalies he observed and experienced with how justice is processed and discharged in the country, he is convinced that many people have suffered miscarriage of justice and are innocently languishing in jail.
According to him, if he could be subjected to such a mistreatment within the justice system as a senior police officer who had served the service for over three decades, then he pitied the everyday person who has to go through the system.
“From my experience with the justice system in Ghana, I can confidently say that there are many innocent people in prison,” Agordzo claimed.
Dr. Agordzo, together with eight others were charged variously on April 24, 2021, for conspiracy to commit High Commissioner treason, abetment to high treason and high treason.
A three-member panel of judges of an Accra High Court on January 24, 2024, discharged and acquitted Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Dr. Agordzo, Colonel Samuel Kodzo Gameli and one other junior military officer, Corporal Seidu Abubakar.
However, six of the ten (10) alleged coup plotters were convicted on counts of conspiracy to commit high treason and committing high treason while one of the accused, Dr. Frederick Yao Mac-Palm, the Chief Executive Officer of Citadel Hospital died in the course of the trial.
Benjamin Agordzo decided to turn the lemons that were thrown at him into lemonades by putting what he describes as persecution experience right from his arrest to judgement into a book for the benefit of others who might find themselves on a similar journey.
He also disclosed that the book titled; ‘From Persecution to Freedom: Reflection of My Journey through the Justice System of Ghana’ was completed two months after his trial and will be launched on October 30, 2024 at the Christ the King Parish Hall, Cantoments.
“This book is meant to sensitise people who may for one reason or the other find themselves with some of these law enforcement agencies on how they should conduct themselves and the things they should watch out for,” Agordzo noted.
Ghana’s Justice System: Now is the time to tell my side of the story – Agordzo
By Samuel Afriyie Owusu
