The Bono Region Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwame Baffoe (Abronye), has been granted GH¢50,000 bail.
Abronye’s lawyer, Daniel Mantey Addo, said the legal team is currently taking steps to meet the bail conditions to secure his immediate release.
The earlier decision to deny him bail attracted wide criticism from the public.
For instance, a Private legal practitioner and former Member of Parliament for Akim Abuakwa South, Samuel Atta Akyea, said the law must be allowed to work to ensure fairness in the system.
“I think we should allow Abronye to go through due process. Why do you want to remand the man for a misdemeanor?
“And then somebody too is in America, even insulting the Otumfuo and the Okyehene and they gave him a VIP treatment, a walk in this space. What hypocrisy is that? It’s a pathetic hypocrisy, I should say,” he said in an interview with TV3’s Beatrice Adu.
Another lawyer, Martin Kpebu, also said the denial of bail was not a good law.
In a Facebook post, he said, “Keeping Abronye DC in custody for another week is not good law. This is you do me, I do you.”
Similarly, another private legal practitioner, Oliver Barker-Vormawor, said that if the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Christian Tetteh Yohunu, thinks Abronye made defamatory comments against him, he should go to court, like every citizen, not to arrest him.
Barker-Vormawor believes that the IGP is using the police to settle personal scores.
“From what I have gathered so far, the Government does not support the prosecution of Abronye, or think it to be necessary at this stage. If the IGP thinks Abronye’s comments are defamatory, he should go to court, like every citizen.
“Using the police to settle personal insults, and now creating ridiculous visual imagery as if he is some war criminal or Hannibal Lecter is causing unnecessary attention and dis-affection for the Government. End it! Someone needs to bring the IGP and his boys to order,” he wrote on his Facebook page.
In a separate post, he opposed the remand of Abronye.
Barker-Vormawor made the point that the fact that Abronye keeps getting remanded over a “common misdemeanour,” is an affront to everybody’s rights.
The Convener of the Fix The Country Movement said “We should all be afraid by the constant cheapening of our constitutional rights to personal liberty. But yesterday they were busy cheering, when it was me. So today, you are also doing the cheering when it is them. Till the noose is around both your own necks. You, without political supporters or money. Then you will be in my inbox asking for pro bono services.
“Our Courts are the weakest link in our democracy. They enable the politics of vengeance and irresponsibility. When we see that our Courts lack the backbone or independence. Dont jubilate. Pray. Pray without ceasing! Our Democracy is a death trap! Fix it.”
On Friday, September 12, the court remanded Abronye DC into police custody to reappear before the court on September 19 ,2025.
The Ghana Police Service, on Tuesday, September 9, 2025 arraigned Abronye before the Circuit Court in Accra. He was remanded and scheduled to reappear before the Court today, Friday, September 12, 2025.
The Police arrested Abronye on September 8 after accusing him of offensive conduct conducive to the breach of the peace.
He is currently in custody after the second remand. The case will return on September 19.
Earlier, former National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Freddie Blay, the Minority Leader, Alexander Afenyo Markin, and National Youth Organiser of the NPP, Henry Nana Boakye, were all in court to support Abronye.
