The Accra Circuit Court judge who remanded the Bono Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwame Baffoe, popularly known as Abronye DC, is reportedly set to retire.
According to a report by The Law Platform, the said judge, Samuel Bright Acquah, will retire from the bench on Tuesday, September 16, 2025.
The report comes after Bright Acquah was heavily criticised for denying Abronye bail for a second time on Friday, September 12, 2025, and remanding him for 7 days. Renowned legal practitioners and politicians from both the NPP and the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) condemned the decision.
Many, including the Ghana Bar Association, have said that even though Abronye’s action is unacceptable, the judge’s refusal to grant him bail over the charge of misbehaviour is equally condemnable.
The judge’s use of a quote from Idi Amin, which he wrongly attributed to Robert Mugabe, and the “non-equality” principle in George Orwell’s famous Animal Farm text, also drew a lot of criticism.
The report indicated that the judge was one of about 50 people who were set to be appointed by President John Dramani Mahama to the High Court.
It stated that the Judicial Council, on August 20, 2025, after 1:20 p.m., shortlisted him for the position of High Court Judge to be sworn in by the president.
It said that Bright Acquah was born on September 16, 1965, and was called to the Bar on October 1, 2010.
He was appointed to the Bench on March 8, 2018. He was posted to his current station, Circuit Court 9, Accra, on August 13, 2020.
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