Sunyani: The Bono Regional Council of Elders of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has condemned the arrest and subsequent prosecution of Mr. Kwame Baffoe, the Bono Regional Chairman of the NPP. They have called on the National Peace Council (NPC), Christian Council of Churches, and the civil society community to intervene and address what they describe as a political witch hunt being carried out by the government against the NPP.
According to Ghana News Agency, an Accra Circuit Court has remanded Mr. Baffoe, popularly known as 'Abronye DC', into police custody for one week after he appeared before it on Friday, September 12, 2025. He was arrested by the police on Monday, September 8, 2025, for charges described by the police as 'offensive conduct conducive to the breach of public peace'.
Speaking in an interview with Ghana News Agency on the sidelines of a meeting in Sunyani, Mr. Kofi Kyeremeh, the Chairman of the Bono Regional Council of Elders of the NPP, stated that the arrest and prosecution of Abronye DC is an affront to the repeal of the criminal libel law and the freedom of expression. He emphasized that although the council opposes politics of insult, Ghana remains a democratic state where everyone has the right to express their views on national issues.
Mr. Kyeremeh further highlighted that if the government aims to bring sanity to the media space, they should consider that some supporters of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) have made statements more severe than those of their chairman.
Nana Atta Afena, a member of the Bono Regional Council of Elders, also expressed concerns to the Ghana News Agency. He described the manner of their chairman's arrest and the police's handling of the situation as indicators of the government's intent to intimidate the NPP. He declared that the arrest and subsequent prosecution are unacceptable in an era of multi-party democracy and freedom of speech.
Nana Afena reminded the NDC and its government that the NPP repealed the criminal libel law in 2001, and the council will not stand by while the NDC employs tactics to intimidate them. He called for intervention by the NPC, the Ghana Catholic Bishop Conference, and civil society to stand against what he termed as the NDC's ploy to silence the NPP, warning that such actions would not benefit the nation's progressive development.