Abronye granted GH¢100,000 bail with two sureties.
A High Court in Accra has granted bail in the sum of GH¢100,000 to the Bono Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwame Baffoe, popularly known as Abronye DC, pending trial.
The court, presided over by Justice Bankole Thompson, admitted the accused to bail with two sureties to be justified.
As part of the bail conditions, the accused is to report to the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) Headquarters once every fortnight.
The court further directed him to surrender his travelling documents to the registry of the court and restrained him from travelling outside the jurisdiction without the permission of the court.
Counsel for the applicant, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, who was led by Godfred Yeboah Dame, moved the motion for bail and prayed the court to admit the applicant to bail pending trial.
The Deputy Attorney-General, Justice Srem-Sai, told the court that the prosecution was not opposed to the application.
Following submissions by both parties, the court granted the accused bail with the stated conditions.
Background
On May 13, an Accra Circuit Court remanded Abronye DC into National Investigations Bureau (NIB) custody after refusing him bail.
According to the prosecution, the accused falsely published a video online in which he allegedly made derogatory remarks to the effect that a Circuit Court judge was always presiding over political cases and that the judge’s rulings were wrong and full of grammatical errors.
The prosecution further alleged that there was an attempt to incite members of the public against the court and the judge.
The prosecution said the accused mounted attacks on the judge on social media, following a foul comment from a pastor on the Vice-President, a case currently under trial.
He was subsequently charged with one count of publication of false news and one count of offensive conduct conducive to the breach of the peace.
