Hopeson Adorye, a prominent figure of Alan Kyerematen’s Movement for Change, has been granted bail in the sum of GH¢20,000 with two sureties by the Dansoman court.
This latest judgement by the court on May 23, 2024, stems from the arrest of Mr Adorye on May 22, 2024, following his claim that he detonated dynamites in the Volta Region during the 2016 general elections to deter voters of opposition parties.
Mr. Adorye was charged by the police for publication of false news.
In the said interview, which has since gone viral, the former senior figure of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) alleged that “Prior to the elections, we blasted dynamite in parts of the Volta Region, and that scared a number of people. When I finished casting my ballot in Tema, I drove to the Volta Region and asked for the number of people who had voted and the expected number of voters. It turned out people did not come out to vote”.
The case has been adjourned to June 26, 2024.
Meanwhile, the former Member of Parliament for Adentan, Yaw Buaben Asamoa, believes Adorye’s arrest is politically motivated.
After visiting him in custody, he claimed the allegations against the suspect were false and unfair.
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“Hopeson Adorye is not about to run away from Ghana or from his home because the police intend to charge him with the publication of false information.
“So to go to the extent of keeping him all day in the police station and bringing him over to the Ministries to detain him, you point fingers backwards at yourself that there is something political at play, and it is not fair,” Mr. Buaben Asamoa, he said.
This is not the first time that Adorye will be in court.
In 2013, he was convicted and narrowly missed a jail term on criminal contempt of court charges.
However, he was slapped with a fine of GHS2,000.