Oliver Barker-Vormawor is a lawyer and social activist
Youth activist, Oliver Barker-Vormawor, is of the view that what Ghanaians had under the leadership of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo was a regime that was committed to destroying the country’s democracy.
He explains that under the previous administration, the judicial system was weaponised to fashion against any individual who did not think or act in sync with what the government wanted.
Oliver Barker-Vormawor, who was speaking on TV3’s KeyPoints, indicated that the Attorney General needed to provide backing for the discontinuation of cases because if that wasn’t done some persons from the previous government would claim some level of moral authority to obfuscate.
Oliver Barker-Vormawor recalled how he was charged with treason over his commentary on e-levy and for the past three years, he has been in court while nothing has been done about it.
“I myself sitting here I was arrested over e-levy. I was put in jail and charged with treason over e-levy. I am back in court on Monday on that charge. The Attorney General has spoken to me and said he will file nolle prosequi in that case, and he has determined those charges to be baseless. A class one pupil can tell you it was. For three years no step has been taken on that matter.
“People have weaponized our Judicial system. We must open the box, we must allow Ghanaians to see what has happened over the past few years because what we have had is a regime that was committed to destroying our democracy,” he said.
