According to Victor Kojogah Adawudu, although the charge of treason brought against Anyidoho is a bailable offence, the security agencies have refused to grant his client that option.

“…we felt that there might be some interference coming from somewhere,” he said on the Citi Breakfast Show on Wednesday.

[contextly_sidebar id=”FF7rA8Pqqks4uSuxcWFqrZgY05VNeJCE”]Koku Anyidoho was picked up by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) on Tuesday for making some comments deemed treasonable and has since been charged with treason.

In an interview on Accra-based Happy FM, he had indicated that President Akufo-Addo will be overthrown because of the ratification of the controversial defence cooperation agreement between Ghana and the US.

The deal was ratified by Parliament despite the resistance of some sections of the public, which Anyidoho believes, will spark a “social revolution” in the country.

“There will be a civilian coup d’état. There will be a social revolution. We [NDC] are starting it on Wednesday. The movement is starting on Wednesday. Nana Addo will have sleepless nights. He will suffer diarrhea. He said he wanted to be president, but we will make sure he will be fed up on the seat,’’ he added.

Anyidoho has since been widely condemned for the comments.

Members of the NDC stormed the CID head office yesterday to demand his release.

Mr. Anyidoho according to NDC officials is currently in the custody of the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) after security officials searched his house for weapons.

“The current position of the law is that every offense in this country is bailable. Before then, the criminal procedure code specified some offences that cannot be granted bail. The reason why they won’t grant you bail is that they want to keep you in custody to stand trial and to be able not to also interfere with the investigation of the police.”

“Now when this piece of legislation was in our books, my friend and colleague, Martin Kpebu took this matter up to the Supreme Court…and the Supreme Court said that piece of legislation is unconstitutional. It said all offence with magnitude being great or not is bailable…So when somebody comes and says that we don’t have instruction to bail, they have to give us reason. We know what the laws says…that is where the departure and we did not understand and we felt that there might be some interference coming from somewhere,” Adawudu added.

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By: Godwin Akweiteh Allotey/citifmonline.com/Ghana
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Victor Adawudu said, he is shocked the Attorney General could not provide him with the information when he requested in a letter addressed to her office.

[contextly_sidebar id=”06shLvozbb1Elp5b7c5kwZ5ROo1QJ4D3″]The lawyer had exercised his right to information due to the scanty details provided by the Ministry of Finance on the bond.

But in a response to his letter, the Attorney General, Gloria Akufo said the information being requested were unavailable to her.

“I acknowledge receipt of your letter bearing reference number LL/17/26 and dated 4th May, 2017 on the above subject matter. Please be informed that the information being sought per your letter is not available to me and I am therefore unable to respond to the questions posed therein,” her written response said.

But according to Mr. Adawudu, the response was unsatisfactory.

He contended that the AG could by virtue of her position, solicited the needed information on the bond from the Ministry or agency responsible.

“If the Attorney General, who is the government’s legal advisor, says she is not aware, they [Finance Ministry] should be aware. The Bank of Ghana should also be aware because it is a loan,” he said in Citi News interview.

In an interview on Eyewitness News on Friday, [May 26, 2017], Victor Adawudu said he was not discouraged by the AG’s response but was determined to further pursue it.

“The response of the AG encourages me the more. And tells me that something hasn’t gone right and I’ll probe further and push and get the information that will be for the benefit of me and especially that of the citizenry,” he said,

“I’ll still request for the information. I’ll request from the Minister of Finance, the Bank of Ghana and if I like I’ll get to a different forum and compel them to release the information,” he added.

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By: Jonas Nyabor/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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