A Sowutuom Branch Organiser of the National Democratic Congress, who was jailed for 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 an error on the face of the record.
The Court ordered the appellant to report 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.
The 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 of 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 fear and alarm, four years on the charge of threat of harm, and three years for offensive conduct.
The sentences were to run concurrently.
The 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 TikTok—in which he was wearing a red military beret.
In the video, he alleged 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, Henry Quartey, was 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 event of war in Ghana, “they would 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 conducted at his residence in Sowutuom led to the retrieval of the red beret he wore in the viral video.