General News of Wednesday, 20 November 2019

Source: starrfm.com.gh

Hand over ACP Agordzo to IGP – Court orders

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The embattled former Director of Operations at the Ghana Police Service, ACP Dr Benjamin Agordzo, must be handed to the Inspector General of Police, the Kaneshie Magistrate Court has ordered.

ACP Agordzo together with nine others have been arraigned for their respective role in an alleged case of destabilising the state.

In court on Wednesday when the case was consolidated, ACP Agordzo was charged with abetment of treason felony while the others face conspiracy and treason felony.

All suspects have since been remanded into police custody after the prosecution had prayed then the court for them to be remanded them there.

The court magistrate Eleanor Botwe while remanding the suspects, specifically ordered that ACP Agordzo be handed over to the IGP upon request by his lawyers.