Kwame Baffoe Abronye
The Bono Regional Chairman of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwame Baffoe, popularly known as Abronye DC, has been rearrested and remanded into the custody of the National Intelligence Bureau (NIB), over some alleged offensive conduct and publication of false news.
He was initially arrested last month over the matter and was put before a Circuit Court which remanded him for two weeks.
However, he was reportedly flown out of the country on health grounds following his remand and was rearrested upon his return to the country.
He was put before a Circuit Court in Accra yesterday charged with one count of offensive conduct condusive to the breach of the peace, contrary to section 207(1) of the Criminal Code 1960 (Act 29).
Court documents allege that Abronye DC in the month of April 2026, without lawful authority, “uttered certain abusive words indicating that a judge sitting at the Adenta Circuit Court is “not a Judge but rather a politician” who has “covered your hair with a sack and claim you are a Judge.”
He was also charged with one count of publication of false news contrary to section 208(1) of the Criminal Code, 1960 (Act 29).
According to court document, the 44-year-old in a video circulating on social media made the “political judge” claims, a statement “which is likely to cause fear and panic and disturb the public peace knowing the statement to be false.”
He pleaded not guilty to the two charges, and the court, presided over by His Honour Joseph Yennuban Kunsong remanded him for two weeks to reappear on May 27.
His lawyers had prayed the court to grant him bail pending the trial but this was heavily opposed by the prosecution.
The prosecution’s brief fact presented by Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Emmanuel Nyamekye, allege that in April 2026, Abronye DC falsely published a video online in which he made derogatory remarks to wit, the Circuit Court Judge is very bias and always doing political case and that her rulings are wrong and full of grammatical errors in an attempt to incite members of the public against the court and the said Judge.
He is said to have stated that that, “You are not a Judge but rather a politician who have covered your hair with a sack and claim you are a judge.”
The brief fact also indicate that Abronye DC mounted furious attacks on the said Judge on social media following a foul comment from a pastor on the Vice President which is under trial at the Adenta Circuit Court presided over by the Judge in question.
It further noted that the particular video and others are being pulled and will be sent to the Police Forensic lab for analysis, adding that the case is under investigation.
By Gibril Abdul Razak