Kwame Baffoe, aka Abronye DC
A High Court in Accra has granted leave to Bono Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwame Baffoe, popularly known as Abronye DC, to travel to the United Kingdom for a master’s degree programme.
The court, presided over by Justice Halimah El-Alawa Abdul-Bassit, yesterday granted an application filed by his lawyers praying the court to temporarily release the passport to enable him travel for the course.
The court, however, ordered him to return to the country by June 30, 2026 and ensure that his passport is deposited at the registry of the court as part of his bail conditions.
Abronye DC is said to be undertaking a master’s degree programme at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland.
On June 4, 2026, the court ordered the re-arrest and remand of Abronye DC for failing to deposit his passport at 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 in the first place.
On June 8, 2026, the registrar confirmed to the court that Abronye DC had complied with the order and deposited his passport on June 5.
Justice Halimah El-Alawa Abdul-Bassit, subsequently restored Abronye DC to his bail terms and warned him that any breach of the bail terms will result in its revocation.
Initial Remand
Abronye DC was remanded into the custody of Bureau of National Intelligence (BNI) by a Circuit Court in Accra on May 13 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.
Trial
Abronye DC was put before a Circuit Court in Accra on May 13, charged with one count of offensive conduct conducive 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 documents, 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 has pleaded not guilty to the two charges.
BY Gibril Abdul Razak