- Oliver Mawuse Barker-Vormawor has been remanded into police custody after he appeared in court for a second time since he was arrested on 11 February 2022.
- Oliver Mawuse Barker-Vormawor has been charged by the state with the offence of treason Felony, contrary to section 182 (b) of the Criminal and other Offences Act, 1960 (Act 29).
Joseph Dindiok Kpemka, a former deputy Attorney General has said it is unnecessary for supporters and sympathisers of #FixTheCountry convener, Oliver Barker-Vormawor, to besiege the court to show their solidarity for their embattled leader.
Barker-Vormawor, who is facing a charge of treason felony for his rant on social media over an alleged coup attempt appeared in court on Monday and was met by supporters and sympathisers at the Ashiaman District Court.
WATCH: Supporters and sympathizers of #TheFixTheCountry convener, Oliver Barker-Vormawor, storm the Ashiaman Court as he returns to Court today.
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However, the deputy Attorney General condemned the court “invasion”, stating that it poses a security threat.
Speaking to Beatrice Adu on The Big Bulletin on Monday (28 February), Kpemka said: “We should allow the law to work. If in the end, he is innocent, he’ll walk. And if he’s innocent and he thinks that he has been wrongfully tried or arrested, there’s a remedy, he’s a lawyer. So, the issue of massing up at court premises and posing as a security threat and what not, for me is just not necessary at all.”
Listen to Kpemka in the attached audio below:
Remanded in court
Barker-Vormawor has been remanded into police custody after he appeared in court for a second time since he was arrested on 11 February 2022.
When he appeared in court today (28 February), he engaged in a heated exchange with the magistrate hearing his case, during which he referred to the court of competent jurisdiction as a “Kangaroo Court”, a term used to refer to an unofficial court held by a group of people in order to try someone regarded, especially without good evidence, as guilty of a crime.
Magistrate Eleanor Kakra Barnes Botwe, who was visibly upset, ordered the security detail who brought the accused person to court to take him out of her court.
Following the order, the security detail removed the accused person from the court to the security vehicle that brought him to the court.
Subsequently, Magistrate Botwe’s court remanded the accused person into police custody and adjourned sitting to 15 March 2022.
Charges
Oliver Mawuse Barker-Vormawor has been charged by the state with the offence of treason Felony, contrary to section 182 (b) of the Criminal and other Offences Act, 1960 (Act 29).
According to the charge sheet filed at the Ashiaman District Court, the particulars of the offence indicates that the accused person, Oliver Mawuse Barker-Vormawor, sometime in February 2022, prepared to undertake any unlawful means an enterprise that usurps the executive powers of the Government of Ghana.
Nicholas Brown
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