ACP (Rtd) Dr. Benjamin Agordzo has responded to the re-invocation of the Right to Information Act (Act 989) by Diana Daniels, which has led to a controversial report by the Ghana Police Service (GPS) and subsequent calls for his removal as a lecturer at UPSA.
Dr. Agordzo accused Daniels, a close ally of IGP Dampare, of attempting to intimidate him due to his critical stance against the IGP’s leadership.
“Diana Daniels is peeved that I’ve been calling for the removal of IGP Dampare and has even threatened to beat me if I’m not arrested. But I assure her, I will continue to critique Dampare’s style of leadership, and her questionable deals with the GPS will be investigated when he is out of office,” he stated.
He also raised concerns over factual inaccuracies in the GPS report, which he claims was hurriedly produced to tarnish his reputation.
“The GPS prepared the RTI report without verifying facts from my file, producing glaring errors. How does a report requested on December 12, 2024, get dated December 9, 2024? This shows their agenda,” he argued. Dr. Agordzo, however, noted that COP Paul Manly Awuni has acknowledged the errors and promised corrections.
On his removal petition filed by Kojo Otchere, Dr. Agordzo dismissed it as baseless. “What does my criticism of Dampare have to do with my work as a lecturer at UPSA? Is Kojo Otchere saying lecturers should lose their jobs for criticizing leaders? I’ll leave UPSA to decide on this trivial matter,” he remarked.
Dr. Agordzo also hinted at legal action against Diana Daniels and the GPS for what he described as an abuse of the RTI Act.
“If the RTI Act is abused to produce inaccurate reports and publish them on social media, then nobody is safe. My lawyers are considering legal action,” he said.
Addressing past controversies about his dismissal and rank reduction in the GPS, Dr. Agordzo reiterated that he was punished for disobeying what he considered an unlawful order.
“I’ve already detailed these events in my book From Persecution to Freedom, and given another opportunity, I’d do the same,” he concluded.
