Oliver Barker-Vormawor, a lawyer for Frederick Kumi, popularly known as Abu Trica have filed an emergency application at the High Court seeking a stay of execution of an extradition order granted on July 2, 2026.
The application is seeking to halt all processes to surrender Abu Trica to authorities in the United States pending the filing, hearing, and determination of an intended appeal and an application for leave to appeal.
In the court documents, counsel for Abu Trica are seeking five key reliefs, which include an order staying the execution of the High Court’s July 2 judgment which dismissed Abu Trica’s application for a writ of habeas corpus ad subjiciendum.
They are also asking the Court to stay the execution and enforcement of a committal order made by the District Court.
Additionally, the application seeks an order restraining the Minister for the Interior, the Attorney-General, the Ghana Police Service acting through INTERPOL, and any other state agency from surrendering, extraditing, removing, or transferring Abu Trica into US custody until his appellate proceedings are concluded.
Abu Trica’s counsel are also praying the Court for an immediate administrative stay of the judgment and consequential orders pending the hearing of the application.
The development follows an Accra High Court order which ordered the extradition of Abu Trica to the United States.
According to Abu Trica’s legal representative, Oliver Barker-Vormawor, the High Court dismissed an application seeking to block his transfer to the United States.
In a post shared on X, Oliver Barker Vormawor wrote, “I am out of Ghana for work. I just heard that the case of Abu Trica has been fast-tracked and a judge has just ordered his extradition.
Hmmm. FBI 1 – Abu 1. I guess this issue goes to the Supreme Court”.
Meanwhile, some weeks ago, Abu Trica broke his silence on the claimed $8 million romance scam levelled against him.
According to Abu Trica, there is no such thing as an $8 million claim in the case against him, arguing that the foreigners themselves admitted they gave him $13,000.
He further argued that he was set up, revealing that while he was in custody, two foreigners attempted to set him up during interrogation, claiming they had evidence against him.
Speaking on Accra-based Onua TV on June 3, 2026, Abu Trica argued, “There is no such thing as an $8 million claim in the case against me. They themselves admitted they gave me $13,000”.
“The reason behind how the $8 million came about is that they came to arrest me and pick me up at night to NACOC cells. While in the cells, they came and told me that some men needed to interrogate me. It was a dark conference room, and I saw five men, three of whom were white and two were black,” he stated.
“They placed some documents in front of me, not knowing it was a setup orchestrated by themselves,” he said.
“The informant told me to provide an account for them because they knew it did not belong to me. They wanted me to mention the name of the account owner, which I refused to do. They became furious and threatened to charge me with taking $8 million instead of the initial $1 million claim against me,” he disclosed.
“I thought it was a joke. How can a foreigner treat me like that in my own country and threaten me?” he said.
See the post below:
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— Osagyefo Oliver Barker-Vormawor (@barkervogues) July 3, 2026
@ghnow_ Wife of Abrutrika visibly disturbed after his husband’s rearrest #GHNow #fyp ♬ original sound – GHnow
