By Gifty Amofa, GNA
Accra, Jan. 23, GNA – The Kaneshie District
Court on Thursday adjourned the treason trial involving a medical doctor,
military officers and others to Friday, January 24, to enable Mr Victor
Kwadjoga Adawudu move a motion for disclosures on behalf of his clients.
His clients; Dr Frederick Yao Mac-Palm,
Chief Executive Officer of the Citadel Hospital, Donyo Kafui, alias Ezor,
blacksmith, Bright Alan Debra, Freight, Colonel Samuel Kojo Gameli, Geshon
Akpa, Civilian employee with the Ghana Armed Forces, Corporal Seidu Abubakar
and Lance Corporal (L/C), Sylvester Akankpewu.
They have been charged together with Warrant
Officer II Esther Saan, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Benjamin Agordzo
and L/C Ali Solomon with offences including conspiracy to commit treason,
treason, conspiracy to possess explosives, arms and ammunitions and possession
of explosives, arms and ammunitions without lawful authority.
Both lawyers for the accused were supposed
to have moved their applications on Thursday, January 23, but Mr Biad
Marcellinus who held brief for Mr Kpebu, counsel for ACP Agordzo, pleaded for a
stay of the motion for it to be moved on the next adjourned date.
The Court presided over by Mrs Eleanor Kakra
Barnes-Botwey adjourned the trial to February 6, for Mr Kpebu to move his
application to strike-out a search warrant motion moved by the Prosecution as
well as go on with the substantive case.
The motion by the Prosecution has been
described by the accused to be irregular.
Mr Adawudu prayed the court to order the
prosecution to seek medical care for some of his clients who are sick.
The Court then ordered the Prosecution to
ascertain what was wrong with those clients of Mr Adawudu and send them to the
hospital if need be.
The Prosecution which was being led by
Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Sylvester Asare told the Court that
the accused persons might have told their counsel of perhaps an ailment but not
to the officials of the Bureau of National Investigations or the Police.
He had earlier given the facts that Mac-Palm
was a medical practitioner, Kafui, a blacksmith, Debra, a freight manager, ACP
Agordzo, police officer and the rest officers of the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF).
He said they were all members of the Take
Action Ghana-a Non-Governmental Organisation, incorporated by Mac-Palm in 2018.
ASP Asare said the group planned to
demonstrate against the government as well as overtake it, so Mac-Palm
contacted Kafui, a resident of Alavanyo to manufacture arms for that purpose
and he produced them.
The Prosecution said later, the others were
also contacted including; Akpa, a weapon mechanic with the Ghana Armed Forces,
who also agreed and supplied two AK47 for GH¢2,000.00 but could not give more
and returned some of the money after pressure was mounted by Mac-Palm.
The Prosecution said they also held meetings
to facilitate the process and drew a map covering the Flagstaff House, Ghana
Broadcasting Corporation, 37 Military Hospital, Burma Camp to facilitate their
movements.
ASP Asare said Colonel Gameli promised to
give his support before, during and after the planned event.
He said when Kafui brought the 22
explosives, six pistols, three grenades and five ammunitions, Mac-Palm
accommodated him, adding that all took place from June 2018 and September 2019.
The Prosecution said Mac-Palm was said to
have also provided a quantity of substance which when inhaled, would make one
sleep for an hour.
The Prosecution said Police upon a tip-off,
arrested Mac-Palm on September 19 and the rest subsequently and a docket to
that effect has since been sent to the Attorney General for advice.
Meanwhile, ACP Agordzo has been granted a
self-recognisance bail of GH¢500,000.00 by the Accra High Court presided over
by Justice Charles Ekow Baiden.
Counsel for WO2 Saan had also secured a bail
but she has since not met the bail conditions whilst Mr Adawudu is still
seeking bail for his other clients.
GNA