FixTheCountry convenor, Oliver Barker-Vormawor granted bail
After over a month in police cells, lead convener for #FixTheCountry movement Oliver Barker-Vormawor has finally been granted bail by the Tema High Court.
Conditions for the bail were pegged at GHS2 million with 2 sureties with one mandated to deposit documents to his landed property.
Also, Mr Barker-Vormawor’s passport will remain in the custody of the Republic and he is supposed to report himself once a week to the police command.
Presiding over the case, Justice Daniel Mensah explained that the Court cannot disable itself from the grant of bail, considering the facts of the case and the legal arguments urged upon him by both counsels for Mr Vormawor and the Republic.
The judge also disagreed with arguments suggesting that Mr Vormawor did not have a fixed place of abode having regard to the facts of the case; and that he was a flight risk though his passport was already in the custody of the Republic.
Mr Barker-Vormawor was picked by the police at the Kotoka International Airport immediately after he arrived from the UK. He was been held on the charges of treason felony for posting on social media that he will make a coup if the E-levy bill was passed.
The post read, “If this E-Levy passes after this cake bullshit, I will do the coup myself. Useless Army.”
