Legal representative of the alleged coup plotters has suggested that Sule, one of the accomplices in the suspected plot to attack the Presidency, but currently on the run was the one who led security officials to the alleged ‘guns and explosives manufacturing base’ in Alhajo last Friday
According to the lawyer for the three arrested suspects, Victor Kojoga Adawudu, the fourth suspect currently at large, led the security personnel to the Citadel Hospital at Alajo and pointed out the said garage being used as ‘manufacturing base’ for the weapons.
In an interview with the media, Mr Adawudu said Sule was the one who “fished out” Dr Mac-Palm and his alleged accomplices to be arrested, adding that the same Sule showed the team the sack containing the weapons retrieved from the facility.”
He questioned a claim by the prosecution that the fourth suspect was at large given that he was arrested together with the three other suspects and were all in the custody of the the Bureau of National Investigations.
“It only goes to confirm our suspicion that this matter is a set up or a dilatory issue. This was somebody who was arrested and handcuffed and went to point out the people to be arrested. They were all taken to the BNI custody”
They were arrested at Alajo and Bawaleshie in Accra, where quantities of arms, explosives and ammunition were retrieved, with which the suspects were believed to be plotting an operation to destabilise the country.
The three suspects were arraigned before Court Tuesday and were remanded into BNI custody.
The three have been jointly charged for conspiracy to commit crime, to wit manufacturing of arms and ammunition, possessing of explosives, firearms and ammunition without lawful authority.
Meanwhile, one of their accomplices, a man identified only as Sule, according to the prosecution, is on the run.
Mr Adawudu said although the prosecution had the right to decide who to put before court, the disappearance of the fourth suspect was suspicious.
“The prosecution decides who to charge and who not to charge. The law gives them that right. But if you decide in your own wisdom that we are bringing somebody to court when you had arrested the person then you come and tell the court that the person has ran away.
“Did he ran away from custody or when he was arrested he ran away? So that raises some suspicion that this could all be a trap that has been set,” he said.
He maintained that his clients were innocent of the charges leveled against them, adding that “the truth will come out when the police bring out all their evidence and then the facts are analysed.”
