The Legal professional-Basic (AG), Dr Dominic Ayine, has dropped treason felony charges in opposition to personal authorized practitioner and social activist, Oliver Barker-Vormawor.
This follows the AG’s filing of a Nolle Prosequi on March 12, to discontinue the case after two years of authorized controversy.
Barker-Vormawor was arrested on Friday, eleventh February 2022, at Kotoka Worldwide Airport upon his arrival from the UK. He was charged with treason felony over a social media publish interpreted as a coup risk in response to the controversial passage of the E-Levy.
With this determination, he’s now not required to look earlier than the Excessive Courtroom for additional proceedings.
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Reacting to the information in a social media publish, Barker-Vormawor expressed gratitude to the AG’s workplace and numerous stakeholders who had overtly challenged the fees in opposition to him.
He wrote:
Collection of Case Withdrawals
This growth provides to a rising checklist of high-profile circumstances discontinued by the AG since assuming workplace on twenty second January 2025. Notable withdrawals embody:
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twenty third January: The AG dropped the controversial ambulance case in opposition to Finance Minister Dr Cassiel Ato Forson and businessman Richard Jakpa.
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twenty eighth January: An Accra Excessive Courtroom acquitted and discharged former Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) CEO, Dr Stephen Opuni, and businessman Seidu Agongo after a seven-year trial.
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twenty ninth January: The AG withdrew all costs in opposition to former Second Deputy Governor (now Performing Governor) of the Financial institution of Ghana, Dr Johnson Pandit Asiama.
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seventh February: The AG formally discontinued costs in opposition to former Works and Housing Minister, Collins Dauda, and 4 others. They’d confronted 70 counts of inflicting monetary loss to the state regarding the $200 million Saglemi Inexpensive Housing Mission.
These high-profile case withdrawals have sparked widespread debate, with some commending the AG’s actions whereas others increase issues over accountability and due course of.
