Acting Chief Justice, Paul Baffoe-Bonnie and Kevin Ekow Baidoo Taylor
A high-profile case involving Eugene Baffoe-Bonnie, the brother of Ghana’s Acting Chief Justice, Paul Baffoe-Bonnie, led to an arrest warrant being issued for Kevin Ekow Baidoo Taylor, the host of With All Due Respect on Loud Silence TV.
The warrant, issued by Justice Eric Kyei-Baffour, a Court of Appeal judge sitting as an additional High Court judge, was made on 16 January 2020, after Taylor posted a video on Facebook.
In the video, titled “The Men in Red, Tainted Judiciary”, Taylor made serious accusations against Justice Kyei-Baffour.
“Today I will tell you about the men in red, yes, the men in red, and how some of them have been compromised,” Taylor said. He claimed that Kyei-Baffour’s promotion from the High Court to the Court of Appeal was part of a plot to serve government interests.
Taylor also accused members of then ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) of selecting Kyei-Baffour to target officials from the previous National Democratic Congress (NDC) government. He further alleged that the judge had distorted the law to favour the NPP government in the case against Eugene Baffoe-Bonnie.
In response, Justice Kyei-Baffour ruled that Taylor’s video was an attack on the judiciary and an attempt to incite public outrage against him and the court. The judge described Taylor’s remarks as “scandalous” and issued an arrest warrant for Taylor to appear in court and explain why he should not be held in contempt.
The warrant was directed at the Inspector General of Police (IGP), the Ghana Police Service, the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI), now known as the National Investigations Bureau (NIB), and National Security, instructing them to “take appropriate steps for the apprehension and production of the said Kevin Taylor before the court.”
In a surprising turn of events, on 22 July 2025, the Supreme Court of Ghana overturned the arrest warrant in a 4-1 ruling.
The panel, led by Justice Imoro Amadu Tanko and joined by Justices Senyo Dzamefe, Gbiel Simon Suurbaareh, and Philip Bright Mensah, quashed the warrant. Justice Ernest Gaewu dissented.
Taylor had filed an application on 2 July 2025, arguing that the High Court had not given him a fair opportunity to respond before issuing the warrant.
After the ruling, Taylor was seen leaving the courtroom with his lawyers, visibly pleased with the outcome.
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