Why I Appeared In Court In Police Uniform- ACP Agordzo

Retired Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Benjamin Agordzo, who was recently acquitted and discharged in the high-profile coup plot case, has given an explanation as to why he was in police uniform when he appeared in court for the first time after his arrest.

ACP Agordzo was criticised by many Ghanaians who accused him of disrespecting the Ghana Police Service when he appeared in court in his police uniform.

Speaking in an interview on Citi TV, on Tuesday, February 7, 2024, the retired police officer said that he did not deliberately wear his police uniform to court, but rather, it was the circumstances surrounding his detainment and treatment by officers of the National Intelligence Bureau (NIB) (formerly BNI) that led him to do so.

He said that he was arrested and detained by the NIB after the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Dr George Akuffo Dampare, directed him to the bureau when he was in his police uniform.

He said that he meant no disrespect to the police but it was the NIB officers who stripped him naked when they arrested him, and then later gave him the same uniform to wear to the court.

“They (the BNI officers) actually stripped the police uniform together with the cap and everything and then put me in custody, that was a Monday.

The former police officer said that the public was misinformed which was why they accused him of disrespect, but it was rather the NIB officers who acted unprofessionally.

Source; ghanasummary.com