Lawyer for senior nursing officer Salomey Awity Baffoe, Nana Adjei Baffour Awuah, has disclosed that his client’s bail application will be heard on Wednesday, September 23, 2026.
According to Nana Adjei Baffour Awuah, he is confident the High Court will grant his client bail when her application is heard so that she can return home and take care of her children.
He disclosed that the application was filed on Friday and is scheduled to be heard at 9:00 a.m. at the High Court Complex.
Speaking on Channel One Newsroom on Monday, September 21, Nana Adjei Baffour Awuah stated, “It was filed on Friday, and the date for hearing is Wednesday at 9 o’clock at the High Court Complex. We are very confident that she’ll be released to go and enjoy life and take care of her children, who have not had their mother for the last 10 days”.
“Demonstrably from the government’s own statement, there’s no outstanding investigation to be conducted. So why is she being held?” he added.
Salomey Awity Baffoe is facing a charge of abetment of crime, to wit, publication of false news, in connection with an ongoing police investigation.
In court, she pleaded not guilty to the charge after being remanded by the Adentan Circuit Court on Friday, September 18, for two weeks.
Meanwhile, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, the Flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has called for the immediate release of Salomey Bafoh Awiti.
The NPP Flagbearer condemned the arrest and remand of the nurse, describing the situation as worrying that the nurse was picked up in the middle of the night by national intelligence officers and subsequently remanded for two weeks.
The NPP flagbearer said he has consistently opposed the use of insults in political discourse and urged political actors and citizens to engage one another respectfully.
He also raised concerns about what he described as the selective application of laws, arguing that similar conduct by different individuals should attract equal treatment.
Dr Bawumia disclosed that when allowed to lead Ghana, intelligence agencies will not be reduced to chasing citizens for insulting the President or anyone.
In a social media post on Friday, September 18, Bawumia wrote, “The story of how a Techiman-based nurse and mother of 3 (including a 4-year-old), Salomey Bafoh Awiti, was picked up in the middle of the night by national intelligence officers and has been remanded for two weeks on suspicion that she is abetting the publication of false news is very worrying to read.
This is not the Ghana we want to build. I can assure Ghanaians that when given the opportunity, our intelligence agencies will not be reduced to chasing citizens for insulting the President or anyone else.
I have always disavowed a politics of insults and will remind all in the political space of the need to be decorous. The ideas we need to transform our nation won’t come from insults. But I also remind the NDC government that any infringement on the right to free speech pushes our democracy backwards. Free speech, as unpalatable as it may be sometimes, is the foundation of our democracy.
Even more worrying is the government’s continuous selective application of our laws. Some citizens can insult and walk freely, and others are jailed because the government doesn’t like the target of their insults.
Please release Salomey Bafoh Awiti and others who have been similarly charged and jailed.
God bless our homeland Ghana and help us to resist oppressors’ rule!”
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