Former Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Benjamin Agordzo, acquitted of charges related to an alleged attempt to destabilize the country, expresses dissatisfaction with the government’s treatment during and after his trial.
ACP Agordzo emphasizes his discontent, particularly with the handling of his case, stating this during an interview on UPfront with Raymond Acquah.
“I don’t have any misgivings about them, but I’m not happy with the way they have treated me, they’ve mistreated me, they have persecuted me.
“Even when the court has pronounced me acquitted and discharged the Attorney General is walking out there to say that if they had done their work very well I would have been also in prisoned.”
He added, “You could not receive visitors if you really have to receive visitors, whoever it was could be frustrated because it could take them six to seven hours before they could get to you; so they will prefer going back.”
ACP Agordzo emphasized that, as a result of his fear of being poisoned, he went five days without food and lived only on water while being held captive by the National Intelligence Bureau (NIB).
“I never went on hunger strike, but I decided not to eat at BNI for five days and that was a personal decision, and I’m not going to explain it.
ACP Agordzo said when he was first arrested “I decided not to eat” stating that when he was arrested for the second time, he “decided not to eat their food and I wouldn’t explain…why I didn’t want to eat their food.”
“I could not trust people who were fabricating stories, so I was never fasting,” he added.
While ACP Agordzo and two others were acquitted and discharged by the court, six individuals now face potential consequences, having been found guilty of conspiracy to commit high treason and high treason.