Oliver Vormawor’s treason felony case adjourned to October 21

Mr. Vormawor has been charged on two counts of treason felony contrary to section 182(b) of the Criminal Offences Act, 1960 (Act 29) and treason felony contrary to section 182(b) of the Criminal Offences Act, 1960 (Act 29), following coup comments he made on his Facebook page after the passage of the E-levy.

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The High Court, Criminal Division 3 has adjourned to October 21, 2022, to hear an application by lawyers for #FixtheCountry Convenor, Oliver Barker Vormawor, in which they are seeking to quash the Attorney General’s bill of indictment and summary of evidence filed against Mr. Vormawor.

Mr. Vormawor has been charged on two counts of treason felony contrary to section 182(b) of the Criminal Offences Act, 1960 (Act 29) and treason felony contrary to section 182(b) of the Criminal Offences Act, 1960 (Act 29), following coup comments he made on his Facebook page after the passage of the E-levy.

Present in court on Thursday, October 13, lawyers for Mr. Vormawor had told the court they were ready to move their application which they had served on the state.

However, Assistant State Attorney, Alice Odame Koranteng, informed the court that Attorney-General’s Office was yet to receive the application and subsequently requested that the case be adjourned, in order for the state to respond appropriately.

The court presided over by Justice Mary Yanzuh held that until the application by the accused has been heard, the case could not continue and thus was adjourned to October 21, 2022.

Bill of indictment

On June 2, 2022, the State Prosecutors provided a list of pieces of evidence in its Summary of Evidence filed by Director of Public Prosecution, Yvonne Attakora Obuobisa to be relied on in the prosecution of the Treason Felony case. They are;

  • Investigation caution statement of the accused;
  • Charge statement of the accused;
  • Investigation caution statement of the accused;
  • Charge statement of the accused;
  • Facebook and Twitter posts of the accused person but excluded the said Security Report
  • Facebook post of the accused person on 30th April 2022
  • An intelligence report from Cyber Crime Unit
  • An intelligence report from National Security

It also indicated that it will be calling three witnesses in the case and that the first witness will be testifying about the accused’s Facebook post to the effect that “if this E-Levy passes after this cake bullshit, I will do the coup myself. Useless Army!” which he saw on February 11, 2022, and how concerned he was relative to the security and peace of the country after reading the post.

Further to the above, the 2nd witness is a Cyber Intelligence investigator. He will be telling the court about how he noticed the above post by the accused person during one of his routine monitoring of social media activities.

Also, he will be telling the court about the outcome of his analysis of the accused’s post which clearly pointed to him the fact that most people had been convinced about the need to take over the Executive power of the state through violent and unconstitutional means.

The third witness expected to be called by the state is an officer stationed at the Ashaiman Police Station to brief the court on the information received from the 1st witness which led to the arrest of the accused and the outcome of the investigation.