Patience Agordzor, wife of embattled police chief, ACP Benjamin Agordzor has threatened to embark on a hunger strike to protest her husband’s continuous detention in the custody of the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI).
She said her husband’s detention and the BNI’s refusal to grant family members or his lawyer access to him was unfair and harsh.
Speaking to Citi News on Tuesday, she lamented that despite arriving at the BNI headquarters as early as 6.30 am on Tuesday, she was not allowed to see him, neither was she granted her request to see him the whole of Monday after he was arrested around noon.
“I am really devastated. I have been here since 6.30am with my children and family. I told them that they should even allow me to see him from afar but they will not…In fact, I will go on hunger strike because I don’t know if my husband has even taken water since yesterday,” she threatened.
ACP Agordzor is currently in the custody of the BNI and being interrogated over his alleged involvement in a reported plot to destabilize the country.
But his wife, Patience Agordzor insisted that her husband had not indulged himself in any crime to warrant his arrest, noting that the allegations against him were unfounded.
This is somebody who has worked so hard and is very objective. He did not do anything wrong, I know my husband… I don’t see how they will think that this time he wants to stage a coup or anything. The entire family is worried and we want justice. This man is not a criminal and should not be treated as such.“He [ACP Agordzor] will not do that, he has never thought about this. This allegation is unfounded. I was there the whole day yesterday and they didn’t allow anybody to have access to him,” she said.
Some nine persons including Dr. Frederick Yao Mac-Palm, who’s believed to be the lead mastermind, have been charged with treason felony and are standing trial.
ACP Dr. Benjamin Agordzor becomes the third top police officer to have been questioned on the matter after COP Nathan Kofi Boakye.
Meanwhile, a request for the police chief to be granted bail has been declined as he is set to be put before court on Wednesday.
The BNI and National Security operations have confirmed that former Executive Secretary at the office of the IGP, Superintendent Peter Toobu Lanchene has also been invited for questioning
