The Attorney General (AG) has filed a Nolle Prosequi to drop treason felony charges against Oliver Barker-Vormawor, who was set to be tried at the High Court.
In an official notice (Nolle Prosequi) entered on March 12, 2025 and sighted by Starrfm.com.gh, states the prosecution’s intention to discontinue with the charges against the accused.
Per the law, a Nolle Prosequi, is a formal notice or a legal declaration that the state or prosecution is abandoning the case and will not proceed with the trial.
Barker-Vormawor was on February 14, 2022 arraigned before the Ashaiman District Court on two provisional counts of treason felony.
On August 1, 2022, Her Honour Ms. Eleanor Barnes Kakra Botwe, the Circuit Court judge sitting with additional responsibility as Magistrate committed him to stand trial at the High Court on September 1, 2022 upon the advice of the AG at the time.
He had since September, 2022 been appearing before the High Court in Accra presided over by Justice Mary Maame Ekue Yanzuh with the trial yet to start.
Barker-Vormawor was arrested upon his arrival from the UK on Thursday February 11, 2022 after he was alleged to have threatened to stage a coup in Ghana if the controversial e-levy was passed.
The Police in a statement said his “post contained a clear statement of intent with a possible will to execute a coup in his declaration of intent to subvert the constitution of the Republic.”
EIB Network Legal Affairs Correspondent, Murtala Inusah, reports that, State Prosecutors will officially inform the High Court on Tuesday, March 18 and Barker-Vormawor would be discharged.
