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

• Hopeson Adorye, arrested for allegedly detonating dynamite during the 2016 general election, was sighted in a handcuff talking to his lawyer.
• I’m talking to my lawyer, are you the only Police Officer? Hopeson Adorye quizzes police officer while under arrest.
• People have described his arrest as being politically motivated.

Hon. Hopeson Adorye, one of the leading members of the Movement for Change, exited the New Patriotic Party’s camp with Hon. Kwadwo. Alan Kyeremanteng has been arrested by the government for his allegation that he supervised the detonation of dynamite in 2016 for the ruling NPP during the general election.

Just 48 hours after his arrest, Hon. Hopeson Adorye engaged in a verbal confrontation with a police officer. The verbal rants occurred while he was whisked out of the police headquarters on May 22.

When he attempted to speak to his legal adviser, lawyer Ken Kuranchie, on the phone, a verbal confrontation ensued.

The police officer, as part of his detailed duties, intercepted the call and instructed Hon. Hopeson Adorye to move quickly into the waiting police car.

It was at this juncture that he shouted at the police officer, saying, “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 Ghaha Police Service arrested the politician who switched sides with Hon. Kwadwo Alan Kyeremanteng before the NPP’s flagbearers runoff on Wednesday, following his allegations of detonating dynamites used to intimidate voters in the Volta Region during the 2016 general elections, which Nana Addo and the NPP won.

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

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

READ: Hopeson Adorye Arrested for Claiming to Have Detonated Dynamites in Volta Region

He said

“Hopeson Adorye is not about to run away from Ghana or from his home because the police intend 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 and say 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 emphasised.