Leading member of the Movement for Change Hopeson Adorye has been granted bail by the Dansoman court, with GH¢20,000 being given with two sureties.
The choice was made on Thursday, May 23, 2024, after Adorye’s arrest and following court appearance.
Adorye was detained following her allegations—which have now gone viral—on a radio station in Accra that dynamites were set off in the Volta Region during the 2016 General Elections.
Before Hopeson Adorye’s court appearance, Alan Kyerematen, the leader of the Alliance for Revolutionary Change and an independent presidential candidate, paid him a visit in detention.
Yaw Buaben Asamoa, the former member of parliament for Adentan, said the arrest was made for political reasons.
Boniface Abubakari Saddique, Yaw Buabeng Asamoah, Kofi Kapito, Alhaji Haruna Tafsiru Warlord, Ken Kuranchie, and other Movement for Change members were with Alan Kyerematen.
Buaben Asamoa stated that the accusations made against Hopeson Adorye are unjust and untrue in a statement following the visit.
“Hopeson Adorye is not about to run away from Ghana or from his home because the police intend to charge him with the publication of false information. So to go to the extent of keeping him all day in the police station and bringing him over to the Ministries to detain him, you point fingers backwards at yourself that there is something political at play and it is not fair,” he said.
Hopeson Adorye’s arrest came after an interview he granted Accra FM on May 10 in which he claimed to be part of an orchestration that detonated a dynamite in the Volta Region to intimidate voters in the stronghold of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to pave the way for a New Patriotic Party (NPP) win.
He is alleged to have said, “Prior to the elections, we blasted dynamite in parts of the Volta Region, and that scared a number of people. When I finished casting my ballot in Tema, I drove to the Volta Region, and when I asked for the number of people who had voted and the expected number of voters, it turned out people did not come out to vote.”
