Private legal practitioner Martin Kpebu has said that the Attorney-General has given an indication that he is intervening to ensure that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Bono Regional Chairman, Kwame Baffoe (Abronye), is granted bail at least by Monday.
Kpebu said there is no way Abronye should be kept in custody for one week.
He says the fact that the judge adjourned the case for a week does not mean the police will wait for a week because the courts have made it clear that they will sit any day.
“Abronye doesn’t have to be in custody for even one week. Today, the right process can be filed, the judge can sit today and grant Abronye bail. If we don’t speak up, it will grow and become worse.
“We have grown past the communist inferior tactics. I am not for one moment supporting the despicable comment by Abronye, but these are misdemeanours,” he said on the Key Points on TV3 Saturday, September 13.
He added “Ayine is stepping in so that latest by Monday, Abronye should be out. This is not what we voted you guys to come in and do,” he said.
Another Private legal practitioner, Austin Kwabena Brako-Powers, had also accused the Ghana Police Service of exploiting loopholes in the country’s laws to keep Abronye in detention.
According to him, the courts have a duty to act “decisively” to safeguard the liberty of accused persons rather than allow investigative delays to be used as a tool of control.
“I have said that the police take advantage of the loopholes in our laws to remote-control accused persons,” Mr Brako-Powers told Martin Asiedu-Dartey on News360 on TV3, Friday, September 12, 2025.
His comments followed the decision of a court to remand Abronye once again because police investigations into his case are still ongoing.
Mr Baffoe has been charged with offensive conduct conducive to the breach of the peace and the publication of false news. His case has been adjourned to September 19, 2025.
Reacting further, Mr Brako-Powers stressed that the court has discretionary powers under the law to grant or deny bail.
“In Martin Kpebu No. 2, the Supreme Court was clear that if the court exercises its discretionary power under Section 96(5) of Act 30 to deny bail, it may be justified provided the reason is sound enough,” he explained.
He, however, argued that since the offences levelled against Abronye are misdemeanours, the court ought to have rejected what he described as police “maneuverings” to keep him in custody.
Mr Brako-Powers warned that such practices risk undermining public confidence in the justice system if courts continue to accommodate police tactics that unduly prolong detention.
He urged the judiciary to demonstrate greater assertiveness in protecting constitutional rights, stressing that “justice delayed is not just denied, but manipulated when loopholes are exploited.”
