I’m talking to my lawyer, are you the only Police Officer? – Handcuffed Hopeson Adoye confronts Police

A leading member of the Movement for Change, Hopeson Adorye, who has been arrested,  engaged in a verbal confrontation with a Police officer when he was being whisked out of the police headquarters on Wednesday, May 22.

He attempted to speak to his lawyer Ken Kuranchie while he was being moved into a Police car but the officer interjected and asked him to move quickly into the car.

It was during that point that he shouted at the Police officer that “I am talking to my lawyer, please, I am talking to my lawyer and then you are preventing me.

What is the meaning of that?

Are you the only Police officer?”

The Police arrested him on Wednesday over his claim that he detonated dynamites in the Volta Region during the 2016 General Elections.

Mr.

Adorye made the claim during a radio interview in Accra, which has since gone viral.

Commenting on the arrest, former Member of Parliament for Adenta and now a member of the Movement for Change, Yaw Buaben Asamoa said in an interview on Joy FM that the arrest is politically motivated.

He said “Hopeson Adorye is not about to run away from Ghana or from his home because the police intends to charge him with the publication of false information.

“So, to go to the extent of keeping him all day in the police station and bringing him over to the Ministries to detain him, you point fingers backward at yourself that there is something political at play and it’s not fair,” he said.

“This is obviously politically motivated, there is no doubt about that,” he emphasized.