Kwame Boffoe aka Abronye
A High Court in Accra yesterday ordered the arrest and remand of Bono Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwame Boffoe, popularly known as Abronye DC, for failing to surrender his passport to the registry as part of his bail conditions.
What started as a request by Abronye DC through his lawyers for the court to waive the order on him to deposit his passport at the court registry so that he can travel to the United Kingdom, ended in him being remanded after it came to the attention of the judge that he had failed to surrender the passport.
Abronye DC was remanded into the custody of Bureau of National Intelligence (BNI) by a Circuit Court in Accra on May 13, 2026, after he was arraigned for some comments he made about a Circuit Court judge sitting at Adenta.
His lawyer subsequently filed an application at the High Court seeking bail pending the trial before the lower court.
The application was granted by Justice Halimah El-Alawa Abdul-Bassit, who admitted him to a bail of GH¢100,000 with two sureties to be justified.
He was ordered to surrender his travelling documents to the registry of the court.
The court said he cannot travel outside the jurisdiction without its permission.
He was further ordered to report to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service once every two weeks.
Travel
Abronye then filed another application before the High Court asking it to vary the terms of the bail and waive the requirement on him to surrender his passport to the registrar of the court.
His lawyer, Daniel Martey Addo, moving the application yesterday, prayed the court to consider Abronye DC’s educational right and waive the requirement so that he can travel to the UK where he is set to begin school on June 14, 2026.
He conceded that Abronye did not surrender the passport to the registry as ordered by the court, but explained that the passport “is not with us and that it is with the UK High Commission in Ghana and an official receipt acknowledging the receipt of the passport from the applicant has been exhibited.”
Opposition
The application was opposed by Joshua Sackey, a Principal Sate Attorney at the Office of the Attorney General, who argued that per the court’s order, the passport should be in the custody of the registrar before it can be said that the bail has been properly executed.
He said despite Abronye DC being granted bail on May 21, 2026, a careful reading of his affidavit will show that the High Commission came into receipt of the passport on May 25, 2026, four clear days after the order for bail had been given by the court.
This, he said, showed that Abronye DC had custody of his passport on May 21 but refused to hand it over to the registrar of the court as part of the bail conditions.
“This court per its order has not infringed on the educational right of the applicant because there is an avenue for the applicant to seek permission from this honourable court to travel if need be,” Mr. Sackey argued.
He further urged the court to direct Abronye DC to deposit his passport with the registrar as soon as same is released by the High Commission of the United Kingdom. He prayed the court to remand Abronye until he surrenders the passport.
Justice Halimah El-Alawa Abdul-Bassit, in her ruling, said the court had made specific orders directing Abronye DC to deposit his passport at the registry of the court, an order he has failed to comply with, claiming that the passport is in the custody of the High Commission of the United Kingdom.
This, she said, constituted a flagrant disrespect to the court’s order, noting that the court will not condone same.
She indicated that the court cannot lend its discretion in his favour to vary the bail, and subsequently dismissed the application.
Justice Abdul-Bassit consequently ordered that Abronye DC be remanded into police custody until he surrenders his passport to the registry of the court.
BY Gibril Abdul Razak