Vociferous member of the Movement for Change, Hopeson Adorye, who was arrested after admitting to detonating dynamite in the Volta Region during the 2016 elections to favour the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has been granted bail.
Mr Adorye was granted bail on Thursday, May 23, by the Dansoman District Court, set at GH¢20,000 with two sureties, one of which must be justified.
He was charged by the police for publication of false news.
A key member of the Movement for Change, Nana Ohene Ntow gave the update in an interview with JoyNews.
According to him Mr Adorye has been taken to the Ministries Police Station to complete the necessary procedures for his release from custody.
"He was put before the Dansoman District Court this [Thursday] morning and was charged with publication of false news. He has been granted bail and has been taken to the Ministries Police Station with our lawyers to secure his release," Mr Ntow said.
The case has been adjourned to June 26, 2024.
Meanwhile, Yaw Buaben Asamoa, a former Member of Parliament for Adentan who has parted ways with the NPP and is now a member of the Movement for Change, has claimed that the arrest is politically motivated.
Following a visit by presidential aspirant and leader of the movement, Alan Kyerematen, Mr Buaben Asamoa said the allegations against Hopeson Adorye are false and unjust.
“Hopeson Adorye is not about to run away from Ghana or 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,” he said.
Hopeson Adorye was picked up after he spoke on Accra FM on May 10, where he confessed to being part of a plot that detonated dynamite in the Volta Region to scare voters in the stronghold of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to favour the NPP.
“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 when I 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.”
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