The opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) said it will petition Chief Justice Paul Baffoe-Bonnie today, Friday, 22 May 2026, over what it described as gross misconduct by the judge who presided over the case involving the party’s Bono Regional Chairman, Kwame Baffoe, popularly known as Abronye DC.
The party said the move followed what it considered unfair treatment of Abronye during proceedings at Circuit Court 9, particularly his remand into custody for nine days before being granted bail.
Addressing journalists after court proceedings on Wednesday, NPP General Secretary Justin Frimpong Koduah said the party would formally ask the Chief Justice to investigate the conduct of the judge.
The comments came after the court granted Abronye bail in the sum of GHC100,000 with two sureties following days of legal arguments over his detention.
The NPP argued that Abronye should have been granted bail from the outset and described the remand decision as an abuse of judicial discretion.
Party officials also alleged that the conduct of the proceedings appeared prejudicial and unfair toward the outspoken politician.
A High Court on Thursday, 21 May 2026, granted bail in the sum of GH¢100,000.00 with two sureties to be justified to Kwame Baffoe, popularly known as Abronye DC, the Bono Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), over allegations of publishing false news and engaging in offensive conduct.
Abronye DC was remanded in the custody of the Bureau of National Intelligence (BNI) by a Circuit Court in Accra on May 13 after he was arraigned for comments he made about a Circuit Court judge sitting in Adenta.
He was expected to return to the trial court on May 27. His lawyers, however, filed an application with the High Court seeking bail pending trial in the lower court.
His lawyer, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, led by former Attorney General Godfred Yeboah Dame, moved the motion yesterday, praying the court to grant him bail pending trial.
Despite previously asking the court for an adjournment to familiarize himself with the processes filed, Deputy Attorney General, Dr. Justice Srem-Sai, did not oppose the application.
The court, presided over by Justice Halima El-Lawal Abdul-Basit, granted the application and admitted Abronye DC to bail in the sum of GH¢100,000.00 with two sureties to be justified.
He was ordered to surrender his travel documents to the court registry.
The court said he cannot travel outside the jurisdiction without the court’s permission.
He was further ordered to report to the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service once every two weeks.
Meanwhile, the New Patriotic Party says it will petition the Chief Justice to remove His Honour Joseph Yennuban Kunsong from the trial, claiming the judge has taken a position in the case.
Addressing the press after the court proceeding, General Secretary of the party, Justin Kodua Frimpong, said the judge’s handling of the case amounts to misconduct and therefore cannot continue to preside over the trial.
“We are filing a petition to the Chief Justice for Justice [Hi Honour] Kunsong to be removed from the case because we believe that he has taken a stance in the case and he cannot be a judge in his own case,” he indicated.
Remand
On May 13, 2026, Abronye DC was remanded into the custody of the Bureau of National Intelligence over some alleged offensive conduct and publication of false news.
Court documents allege that Abronye DC, in April 2026, without lawful authority, “uttered certain abusive words” indicating that a judge sitting at the Adenta Circuit Court is “not a judge but rather a politician” who has “covered your hair with a sack and claim you are a judge.”
He was also charged with one count of publication of false news contrary to section 208(1) of the Criminal Code, 1960 (Act 29).
According to court documents, the 44-year-old, in a video circulating on social media, made the “political judge” claims, a statement “which is likely to cause fear and panic and disturb the public peace, knowing the statement to be false.”
He pleaded not guilty to the two charges, and the court, presided over by His Honour Joseph Yennuban Kunsong, remanded him for two weeks to reappear on May 27.
His lawyers had prayed the court to grant him bail pending trial, but the prosecution strongly opposed it.
The prosecution’s brief fact presented by Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Emmanuel Nyamekye, allege that in April 2026, Abronye DC falsely published a video online in which he made derogatory remarks to wit, the Circuit Court judge is very bias and always doing political case and that her rulings are wrong and full of grammatical errors, in an attempt to incite members of the public against the court and the said judge.
The brief fact also indicates that Abronye DC mounted furious attacks on the said judge on social media following a foul comment by a pastor about the Vice President, who is on trial at the Adenta Circuit Court presided over by the judge in question.
It further noted that the particular video and others are being pulled and will be sent to the Police Forensic lab for analysis, adding that the case is under investigation.
