Court permits Abronye DC to travel to UK for master’s programme
The permission was granted by Justice Halimah El-Alawa Abdul-Bassit after his lawyers applied for the temporary release of his passport.
The High Court in Accra has cleared Bono Regional NPP Chairman Kwame Baffoe, popularly known as Abronye DC, to travel to the United Kingdom for academic purposes.
Abronye DC is expected to undertake a master’s programme at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland.
The permission was granted by Justice Halimah El-Alawa Abdul-Bassit after his lawyers applied for the temporary release of his passport.
The passport had been deposited at the court registry as part of bail conditions imposed in a criminal case pending against him.
Under the latest order, Abronye DC must return to Ghana by June 30, 2026.
He is also required to re-submit his passport to the court registry upon his return.
The ruling comes days after the same court restored his bail following an earlier breach of the passport surrender condition.
On June 4, Abronye DC’s lawyers had gone before the court seeking a variation of the bail terms to allow him to travel.
The application, however, exposed that he had not yet deposited his passport, despite an earlier order requiring him to do so.
The court consequently ordered his remand until he complied.
On June 8, the court registrar confirmed that Abronye DC had submitted the passport on June 5.
Following that confirmation, the court reinstated his bail but warned him that any future breach could result in the revocation of the bail.
Abronye DC had earlier been granted bail by the High Court in the sum of GH¢100,000 with two justified sureties.
He was ordered to surrender his travel documents, seek permission before leaving Ghana and report to the Criminal Investigations Department once every two weeks.
The bail followed his arraignment before an Accra Circuit Court after he was accused of making comments about a judge sitting at the Adenta Circuit Court.
He had initially been remanded into the custody of the Bureau of National Intelligence on May 13, 2026.
Abronye DC is facing charges of offensive conduct conducive to the breach of the peace and publication of false news.
Prosecutors allege that he made abusive comments in April about a judge, including claims that the judge was “not a judge but rather a politician.”
They also allege that a video circulated on social media contained statements about a “political judge” which were likely to cause fear and panic and disturb public peace.
He has pleaded not guilty to all the charges.
