The police went for a court warrant to search Koku Anyidoho’s phone and laptop to find out whether he has hidden “cutlasses, guns, bombs” and “any evidence with the intention of toppling Nana Akufo-Addo” in them, Mr Chris Ackumey, one of the legal counsel for the Deputy General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has said.
The police on Wednesday secured a warrant from the Accra High Court to confiscate phones and other electronic devices belonging to Koku Anyidoho, who has been charged with causing fear and alarm, as well as treason felony.
“It is hereby ordered that electronic gadgets including laptops, iphones and ipads believed to be storage of information related to treason in the premises of Koku Anyidoho and his agents are to be seized to aid police investigation on the said Koku Anyidoho,” the search warrant secured by the police read.
However in a radio interview with Peace FM Wednesday night, Mr Ackumey said he does not understand why the police have continued to detain Koku Anyidoho and that they want to go through his phone to find out whether he has hidden cutlasses and ammunition in it.
Mr Chris Ackumey said, “They [police] wanted to have access to his [Koku] phone to find out whether he was in contact with mercenaries from South Africa or Hungary to come and train forces, whether visible or invisible to topple the regime of Nana Akufo-Addo and that kind of thing.”
“…there was a password on the phone and there was nothing they could have done, so they came back and wanted Koku to give them the password so that they can go and have access to the phone. So I, as the lawyer of Koku, convinced that, there is nothing untoward on the phone, that, that phone does not have guns, it does not have ammunitions, it does not have bombs, it does not have any evidence with the intention of toppling Nana Akufo-Addo, that if anything at all, it is his [Akufo-Addo] own bad governance which will topple him, I advised my client to give them the password, which he did.”
No bail
Explaining whether they have been able to secure bail for Koku Anyidoho, Mr Ackumey said: “What we heard was that they are preparing to keep him for Easter, so they are planning to send him to the District Magistrate Court, which will decline jurisdiction because the District Magistrate Court has not got the power for treasonable offences. So if they go there, that will give them the opportunity to keep him over night, that has been leaked over to us, but I think it will be a travesty of justice to do what they intend doing and I believe that tomorrow if nothing untoward is found on the phone, nothing to incriminate him, nothing to show that he was doing things to topple the government of Ghana other than what he said on phone, I believe that he will be granted bail.”
Koku Anyidoho who spends his second night in the custody of the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) on Wednesday as the police continue to interrogate him after his arrest on Tuesday after in a radio interview on Accra based Happy FM stated: “Somebody should tell Nana Akufo-Addo that history has a very interesting way of repeating itself.
“On the January 13, 1972 a certain Col. Ignatius Kutu Acheampong led a movement that removed the Progress Party from power. Busia was the Prime Minister and Akufo-Addo’s father was a ceremonial president. Somebody should tell Nana Akufo-Addo that history has a very interesting way of repeating itself.
“There’ll be a civil revolt. There’ll be a people’s movement. During President John Mahama’s tenure didn’t we receive similar threats from the likes of Let My Vote Count and OccupyGhana.”
“There’ll be a civilian coup d’etat; there’ll be a social revolution and the movement is starting on Wednesday. He [Akufo-Addo] will be fed up at the presidency,” Mr Anyidoho said.
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FROM FALSE FABRICATIONS OF CORRUPTION THROUGH PRESS CONFERENCES, WITH PARLIAMENTARY BOYCOTTS TO STREET PROTESTS AND SUGGESTED COUP D'ETATS. NDC IS A CRAZY ***barred word***.
hi, to ALL ghana people, kwaku ANIDAHO IS A ***barred word*** AND THE LAW MUST DEAL WITH HIM, ALL GHANA PEOPLE MUST CONDEMN HIM AND THE JUDGES MUST GIVE GHANA PEOPLE JUSTICE, THE LAW OF TREASON SHOULD BE APPLY TO TEACH ANIDAHO SENSE, AGUDA OF GOLD CREST SECURITY COMPANY WENT TO PRISON FOR NOT PAYING SOCIAL SECURITY OF HIS WORKERS, IBRAHIM MAHAMA DID NOT PAY HIS WORKERS SOCIAL SECURITY AND HE IS WORKING IN ACCRA, THE POLICE MUST PROSECUTE IBRAHIM AND SEND HIM TO COURT, NOTICES TO ALL DISTINGUISH JUDGES, ANY BODY WHO WILL CHOP GHANA MONEY BE HE PRESIDENT, LAWYER, POLICE PASTOR, BUSINESSMAN SHOULD BE PROSECUTED AND WHEN FOUND GUILTY MUST BE JAIL TO SERVE WARNING TO ALL GHANA PEOPLE, I THINK IF ONE POLITICIAN, LAWYER, PASTOR IS JAILED GHANA WILL BECOME GHANA AGAIN , THANKS. FROM GHANA PEOPLE
People entered court room and freed accused and what did the police did about that ? Major Mahama was killed and nobody is in jail now and a MP was also killed and since then nobody is in jail as well,Koku Anyidoho has not kill anybody so Ghana police should not allow politicians to control them
Did Ackumey go to law school at all? If yes, how did he pass his exams?
THE EVIL THAT MEN DO WILL SURELY LIVE AFTER THEM. THE POLICE MUST STOP BEING TOOLS OF RULING GOVERNMENTS OR POLITICAL PARTIES. THEY MUST LEARN TO ACT PROFESSIONALLY AND STOP TAKING ORDERS FROM ABOVE. THEIR ACTIONS AND INACTIONS ARE VERY VISSIBLE TO EVERY SOUND MINDED INDIVIDUAL AND ARE ASSESSED INTERNATIONALLY. WHATEVER GOES AROUND COMES AROUND. IF YOU TALK OF A TREASONABLE CRIME THEN AS A PROFESSIONAL YOU SHOULD STRAIGHT AWAY KNOW WHICH COURT IS RESPONSIBLE AND UNDERRATE YOU PROFESSIONAL ABILITIES BY SENDING THE CASE TO LOWER COURT ONLY TO RIDICULED. IN CRIMINAL CASES LIKE TREASON MENS REA AND ACTUS REUS MUST BE PRESNT FOR ANY CHARGE OF TREASON. CAN THE AUTHORITIES SO BE IT PROVE ANY OF THESE ELEMENTS IN THE ACTIONS OF KOKU ANYIDOHO SO FAR? EVEN THOUGH VOILENT STATEMENTS MUST AND SHOULD NEVER BE ENTERTAINED ANYWHERE ANYTIME BUT IN ACTING AGAINST SUCH STATEMENTS WE AND ESPECIALLY THE LAW ENFORCING BODIES UST ALWAYS ACT WITHIN THE LAW.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE WHAT DID HE SAY THAT MAKES HIM A NON LAWYER. WE ARE A BUNCH OF PEOPLE USED TO INSINUATIONS RATHER THAN DEBATING FACTS. HE SAID THE POLICE ARE NOW HUNTING FOR EVIDENCE. THEY ALSO INTEND TO ARRAIGN HIM BEFORE A COURT WHICH HAS NOT GOT JURISDICTION TO TRY WHAT HE HAS BEEN ACCUSED OF TO ENABLE THE POLICE TO HOLD HIM OVER THE HOLIDAYS. DON'T YOU SEE POLITICAL HANDS HERE? JUST TO SHOW HIM WHERE THE POWER LIES? I LISTENED TO THE TAPE AND COULD NOT FIND ANY TREASONABLE OFFENCE IN WHAT HE SAID. HE RATHER CHOSE HIS WORDS WELL. IT IS ONLY IN THESE TIMES THAT SOCIAL UPRISING BECOMES A SUPPOSEDLY TREASONABLE OFFENCE. EVEN THE BEST LAWYER IN TOWN KWAKU BAAKO DOES NOT UNDERSTAND TREASON. WHEREEVER THESE THINGS HAPPEN, WE HAVE TO BE BOLD TO CONDEMN IT EVEN IF OUR POLITICAL PARTY IS IN POWER BECAUSE AS THE SAYING GOES, "First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me." DO NOT ENJOY THIS SPECTACLE BECAUSE IT WILL DEFINITELY TURN ON YOU TOMORROW.
ACKUMEY SHOULD LISTENED TO HIMSELF. IS HE ABLE TO PUT HIS CASES TOGETHER? HE SIMPLY DOES NOT MAKE SENSE.
Is this man a Lawyer? Reason for the bull to be kept long. Please let's Corporate with the police for the release of the bull. Fire all the lawyers who are not helping you.