Private legal practitioner Martin Kpebu has said that the Bono Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwame Baffoe, popularly known as Abronye, should not be kept in custody for a week over his misdemeanor.
Speaking on TV3’s Key Points program on Saturday, September 13, 2025, Kpebu explained that the judge’s decision to adjourn the case for a week does not mean that the police are required to keep the NPP regional chairman in detention until then.
According to him, the courts are available to sit at any time, and the necessary legal processes can be filed to secure Abronye’s bail immediately.
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“Abronye doesn’t have to be in custody for even one week. Today, the right process can be filed, the judge can sit today, and grant Abronye bail. If we don’t speak up, it will grow and become worse,” he stated.
Kpebu criticised the use of what he described as intimidation tactics, insisting that Ghana’s democracy has moved beyond such practices.
“We have grown past the communist inferior tactics. I am not, for one moment, supporting the despicable comment by Abronye, but these are misdemeanors,” he indicated.
He further disclosed that the Attorney-General had already indicated plans to intervene to ensure that Abronye is granted bail.
“Ayine is stepping in so that, latest by Monday, Abronye should be out. This is not what we voted you guys in to do,” Kpebu cautioned, urging the government to protect democratic freedoms and respect the rule of law.
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