The Accra High Court has granted bail to Bright Alan Debrah Ofosu, probably the most six males convicted within the 2024 coup plot case, environment the bail quantity at GH₵2.5 million pending the choice of his enchantment.

Debrah, a fleet supervisor via career, used to be amongst the ones sentenced to dying via striking after being discovered in charge of conspiracy to devote top treason and treason. Following his conviction, he filed an enchantment and due to this fact carried out for bail whilst the case used to be below evaluate.

A 3-member panel of justices, presided over via Justice Eugene Nyadu Nyantei, dominated that Debrah had proven enough justification to advantage bail below outstanding cases.

“We have come to an agreement after deliberation that exceptional circumstances have been demonstrated which warrant the grant of bail to the third convict-appellant-applicant pending appeal,” the court docket mentioned.

Under the phrases of the bail, Debrah is needed to deposit his passport with the court docket registry and might best go back and forth out of doors Ghana with specific permission from the court docket. He can be put on a Stop List in any respect nationwide access and go out issues.

Additionally, probably the most two sureties should justify the bail with a landed belongings. The court docket cautioned that any breach of the bail phrases would lead to its revocation.

Background

On January 24, 2024, the Accra High Court discovered six folks in charge in reference to a plot to overthrow the federal government.

The convicted individuals integrated two civilians, Donya Kafui, alias Ezor (a blacksmith), and Bright Alan Debrah Ofosu (a fleet supervisor), each discovered in charge of conspiracy to devote treason and treason. Another civilian, Johannes Zikpi, a Ghana Armed Forces worker, used to be discovered in charge of conspiracy to devote top treason.

Three squaddies, Warrant Officer II Esther Saan Dekuwine, Lance Corporal Ali Solomon, and Corporal Sylvester Akanpewon, had been additionally convicted of conspiracy to devote top treason.

Three others, together with Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Benjamin Agordzo, Colonel Samuel Kodzo Gameli, and Corporal Seidu Abubakar, had been acquitted and discharged.

One of the principle suspects, who used to be the Chief Executive Officer and proprietor of Citadel Hospital at Alajo, Accra, Dr Frederick Yao Mac-Palm, died whilst status trial.

Dr Mac-Palm used to be mentioned to have collapsed in his area and rushed to the sanatorium, the place he used to be pronounced lifeless.

The clinical practitioner, a member of TAKE ACTION Ghana(TAG), a gaggle allegedly shaped to reason social trade, studied medication within the United States of America.

DISCLAIMER: The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made via Readers and Contributors in this platform don’t essentially constitute the perspectives or coverage of Multimedia Group Limited.

DISCLAIMER: The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made via Readers and Contributors in this platform don’t essentially constitute the perspectives or coverage of Multimedia Group Limited.