Lawyers confident Koku’s coup case will be dropped

The embattled Deputy General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Koku Anyidoho, reported at the Headquarters of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service on Tuesday 3 April 2018 to assist with investigations over his alleged treasonable comments.

Mr Anyidoho was granted bail last Thursday after spending two nights in the custody of the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI).

Lawyers for Mr Anyidoho managed to secure bail for the politician as investigations continue into comments he made to the effect that a coup that happened in 1972 could repeat itself.

A statement issued by the police said Mr Anyidoho has been charged with treason felony. However, his lawyer Victor Kojogah Adawudu insists he has not been charged. He’s confident Mr. Anyidoho hasn’t committed any crime and hopeful the politician will be free soon.

“The information is that they (security) are conducting their investigations. Let’s allow them. This is a professional institution, we should not stampede them and they said anytime they are ready they will call us back but they are doing further investigation,” he Mr Adawudu told Class FM’s Joshua Mensah who visited the CID Headquarters.

He reiterated that: “he has not been charged and they are investigating”.

According to him, if the police complete the probe and “they have compelling evidence then they will now charge us”.

Mr Anyidoho was arrested on Tuesday after inciting citizens to launch a civil coup against the Akufo-Addo government.



Mr Anyidoho threatened on radio that there will be a civil coup d’etat to topple the Akufo-Addo administration in connection with Ghana’s signing of an agreement with the United States government, which gives the latter unimpeded access to some of Ghana’s security installations.

He told Happy FM on Monday, 26 March in an interview that: “Somebody should tell Nana Akufo-Addo that history has a very interesting way of repeating itself.

“On January 13, 1972 a certain Col. Ignatius Kutu Acheampong led a movement that removed the Progress Party from power. Busia was the Prime Minister and Akufo-Addo’s father was a ceremonial president. Somebody should tell Nana Akufo-Addo that history has a very interesting way of repeating itself.

“There’ll be a civil revolt. There’ll be a people’s movement. During President John Mahama’s tenure didn’t we receive similar threats from the likes of Let My Vote Count and OccupyGhana.”

“There’ll be a civilian coup d’etat; there’ll be a social revolution and the movement is starting on Wednesday. He [Akufo-Addo] will be fed up at the presidency,” Mr Anyidoho said.