Court orders prosecution to file disclosures in Abronye DC case
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In court, defence counsel Daniel Amartey Addo challenged aspects of the record of the previous proceedings supplied to the defence.
Questions over the accuracy of the court’s own record briefly took centre stage on Tuesday when the case involving Kwame Baffoe, popularly known as Abronye DC, returned before the Accra Circuit Court.
The Bono Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party is facing charges of offensive conduct and publication of false news. He has denied both charges.
In court, defence counsel Daniel Amartey Addo challenged aspects of the record of the previous proceedings supplied to the defence.
He said what happened in open court was that the accused was first remanded into prison custody, before the order was varied to BNI custody after an application by the defence.
The judge described the issue as serious, warning that any alteration of a court record could amount to forgery of judicial proceedings.
The court also referred to different accounts of the previous hearing that had appeared in the media.
“There is nowhere in this record that the accused person was remanded into BNI custody until the final determination of the matter. I would not do that,” the judge said.
To clarify the issue, the judge read portions of the earlier ruling and stated that Abronye DC had been denied bail and remanded into BNI custody only until the next adjourned date.
The court stressed that it had not ordered his detention until the final determination of the case.
On the prosecution’s side, Assistant Superintendent of Police Raymond Ackom, holding brief for the substantive prosecutor, DSP Emmanuel Nyamekye, asked for an adjournment.
He said the state needed time to file its disclosures.
The court granted the request and ordered the prosecution to file the disclosures within 14 days.
The case has been adjourned to July 14, 2026.
According to the prosecution, Abronye DC allegedly published a video in April 2026 in which he made comments about a Circuit Court judge.
The state claims the remarks accused the judge of bias, unfair handling of politically related cases, and delivering rulings said to contain errors and grammatical flaws.
Prosecutors say the comments were intended to incite the public against the judge and weaken confidence in the judiciary.
