A Sowutuom Branch Organiser of the National Democratic Congress, who was jailed four years for threatening to kill citizens during the December 7, 2024 elections, has been granted bail.
The Court of Appeal granted Mohammed Ibrahim bail in the sum of GH₵100,000 with one surety pending appeal.
The three-member panel, with Justice Senyo Dzamefe (presiding) held that there was error on the face of the record.
The Court ordered the appellant to be reporting to the Regional Crime Officer every two weeks.
Ibrahim’s appeal was earlier turned down at the High Court when he filed for bail pending appeal.
Appellant’s lawyer Nii Kpakpo Samuah Addo proceeded to the Court of Appeal to appeal against the sentence.
Ibrahim was sentenced last year to four years imprisonment by an Accra Circuit Court after he was found guilty on the charges of publication of false news with intent to cause fear and alarm, threat of harm and offensive conduct to breach the peace.
He was sentenced to three years imprisonment on the charge of publication of false news with intent to cause harm, four years on the charge of threat of harm and three years for offensive conduct.
Sentences were to run concurrently.
Prosecution’s case was that Ibrahim identified himself as the leader of a revolutionary group known as “Ka na wu”, literally meaning “Speak and die” in the Twi Language.
On September 3, 2024, the Ghana Police Service’s attention was drawn to a video of Ibrahim on social media platforms: Facebook, X and Tik Tok in which Ibrahim was wearing a red military beret.
He was saying that the Ghana Police Service in the Ashanti Region, under the direction of the Inspector General of Police, Dr George Akuffo Dampare and the then Minister of the Interior, Mr Henry Quartey, were recruiting fake police personnel to kill citizens during the December 7 elections.
Ibrahim stated that he and his cohorts knew where the Minister lived and that in the outbreak of war in Ghana, “they will shoot him.”
Ibrahim also threatened to unleash violence during the elections.
On September 10, 2024, the police declared Ibrahim wanted leading to his arrest.
A search was conducted in his residence at Sowutuom, which led to the retrieval of the red beret he wore in the viral video.
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