Hopeson Adorye's arrest: Gov't is bent on using all state apparatus to cover up their corrupt practices; this is one — Buaben Asamoah

Former Member of Parliament for Adentan Constituency, Buaben Asamoa has alleged that Hopeson Adorye’s arrest is linked to his affiliation to the leader and founder of the Movement for Change, John Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen’s presidential ambitions.

According to the former Communications Director for the New Patriotic Party(NPP), who has crossed carpet to the Movement for Change, Hopeson Adorye has been a leading voice for the Movement for Change, hence their deliberate attempt to silence him.

In a radio interview with Okay FM on Thursday, May 23, 2024, the legal practitioner revealed that Hopeson Adorye’s arrest is a strategy adopted by the NPP government to shift focus from the backlash on the SML deal due to what he describes as ‘the rot’ in the deal.

“We don’t have a problem with the police for arresting Hopeson but it should be done in the confines of the law. Hopeson was invited to have a conversation with the police. If it was just a conversation, he should have been allowed to go home, rather he was detained at Accra Central and later sent to the Ministries Police station following an order from above.

"How do you arrest someone without letting him know for what offence you are arresting him? Without any prior information, they decided to detain him because orders from above say so.

“It is clear that Hopeson Adorye was arrested in connection to Alan Kyerematen’s Presidential ambition. They are peeved because Hopeson is vociferous for his worldview about Alan Kyerematen’s Presidential candidacy.

“It doesn’t make sense that someone said something in 2016 and referred to the fact that he had informed the President of what he had gone to do in his favour. The President did not see anything wrong with that in 2016. How come he has a problem with it in 2024 when his own appointee stated on your sister station that he knows where armed robbers and criminals are and he goes there to solicit votes from them, but hasn’t been invited," Buaben Asamoa said.

He continued, “I will continue to say that, Hopeson Adorye’s arrest is a deliberate attempt to cover up the slimy SML- report which has taken the President a long time to release. Take a good look at what is happening to SSNIT currently. There is corruption everywhere and the government is keen on using all the state apparatus to cover up their corrupt practices but it will not work on members of the Movement for Change.”

Around the hours of 12 noon on Wednesday, the former member of the NPP, Hopeson Adorye was arrested by the Police to help in investigations concerning his own statement that he detonated a dynamite in the Volta region during the 2016 elections to scare off Togolese from voting for the NDC.

Hopeson Adorye has been given a Ghc 20,000 bail with two sureties.