It has emerged that at least two senior military officers of the Ghana Armed Forces have been detained by the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) for questioning alleged coup plot targeted at the presidency.
Lawyer for one of the three persons being held over the alleged plot, Victor Adawudu, revealed Tuesday that the two officers whose names he declined to give, were picked up Monday and had to spend the night in BNI cells in Accra.
“…It is unfortunate that with issues like this, that is nowhere near destabilising a nation, you take senior military officers, and put them behind bars. What are you doing?” he asked rhetorically on Joy FM Tuesday.
According to him, the detention of the two is likely to create “agitation among the senior military rank”.
“Some of them were just invited only yesterday that ‘we need you’. They go to their bosses, their bosses bring them, [and] then you come and say orders from above you have to be detained” Mr Adawudu claimed.
“These are not junior rank, not middle rank; senior officers have been brought and they slept at BNI. As at yesterday I know of two” he stated.
The legal practitioner explained the two officers have been picked up by the security operatives because of their relationship with his client, Dr. Frederick Yao Mac-Palm.
Information Minister Kojo Oppon Nkrumah confirmed on the show that some military personnel have been picked up as part of an elaborate ongoing investigations into the purported coup plot in the country. A joint operation conducted on Friday, September 20 at Alajo and Dodowa in the Greater Accra Region led to the arrest of three persons and the retrieval of several arms.
The suspects have been identified as Dr. Frederick Yao Mac-Palm and accomplices Ezor Kafui, a local weapon manufacturer, and Bright Allan Debrah Ofosu.
Government statement subsequent to the arrest claimed the operation was “to neutralize an elaborate plot targeted at the Presidency and with the ultimate aim of destabilizing the country”. The operation was the final move to foil the attempt after 15 months of surveillance and gathering of evidence, government claimed. According to government, the plot was to be almost carried out as Dr Mac-Palm, Mr Ezor and a soldier on Thursday went to a place close to Laboma Beach to test-fire some of the locally manufactured weapons.
Source: 3news.com
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THE LAWYER SHOULD SPEAK AS A PATRIOT. BULLETS DO NOT SEPERATE PEOPLE ON THE LINES OF POLITICAL COLOURS.
THE WEAPONS DISCOVERED FROM THE COUP PLOTTERS APPEAR TO BE TOO SIMPLE FOR A COUP. IT IS GOOD FOR ALL WHO CARE ABOUT GHANA TO KNOW THAT THE WEAPONS DISCOVERED MIGHT NOT BE ENOUGH TO TAKE OVER GOVERNMENT, YET THEY CAN ENABLE THEM TO ATTACK THE GUARDS AT THE ARMOURY TO GIVE THEM ACCESS TO MORE POWERFUL WEAPONS. NO CIVILIAN COUP PLOTTERS ACT ALONE. THEY ALWAYS HAVE IGNORANTT SOLDIERS TO USE, EXPLOITT AND DUMPP. HE ALSO ARGUED THAT ANY COUP AT THIS TIME WILL ATTRACT INTERNATIONAL CONDEMNATION. ONE MUST KNOW THAT COUP MAKERS DO NOT CARE ABOUT INTERNATIONAL CONDEMNATION. CONTEMPORARY COUP MAKERS LACK THE ABILITY TO THINK RIGHT AND MAY NOT CARE ABOUT WHAT OTHERS THINK OF THEM. MOST COUP MAKERS ARE EGOISTICC AND SELF ABSORBEDD. THEY DONT THINK AND ACT RIGHT BECAUSE THEY DONT SEE RIGHT TO JUDGE RIGHT. OFOSU AMPOFO STATEMENTS WERE NOT MADE IN A VACUUM. ANY GUN OR EXPLOSION IN THE HANDS OF NON-AUTHORISED PERSONS ARE NOT INTENDED FOR THE GOOD OF ANY PEOPLE. THEY ARE ONLY USED TO COMMIT CRIME BY ATTACKING TO ROB PEOPLE OF THEIR LIVES, PROPERTY OR GOVERNMENT.
Our leaders seem to have forgotten about the Arab spring.
Agyapong or whatever you call yourself. Please be civil when you are commenting. I believe you might be educated so please behave as such and respect yourself. You do not just start insulting someone because he has differing opinion from you. Be matured.
I think this should rather send a strong warning to the politicians ooo especially the NDC and the NPP.... People are becoming fed up with the 2 political parties.... You tell us there is no money for this there is no money for that.....But what we see you politicians doing, it is very disheartening... A teacher will toil for years, retire and go home with nothing....but politicians will dupe or ***barred word*** our blood for 4 or 8 years and still leave with heavy ex-gratia and be paid monthly as if we bagged or forced them to become politicians especially the presidents........... My advise is for politicians to think twice if not it may be too late and worse of all, it is we the ordinary citizens who pay the taxes for them to live large, we will suffer!!! Please, you do whatever ypu have to but please "in all thy chooping, pleae try and protect us ooo pleae"
LET ME TELL AND THE LIKES OF YOU THAT THIS IS NOT 1979 WHEN THOSE JEALOUS OPPORTUNISTS DESTABILIZED GHANA AND DISTURBED OUR FREEDOM. WE RE VERY MUCH AWAKE! SO GO TO H3L;L IF YOUR PEOPLE DID NOT ACHIEVE THEIR SELFISH DIABOLIC AGENDA
111diot of a Lawyer, you want them to strike before the government act? You are very very 111diot Lawyer. You are one of such people who will support coup in Ghana today.
Ghana is becoming a joke!