Oppong Nkrumah decries unfair bail conditions for Miracles Aboagye

Former Information Minister and Ofoase-Ayirebi MP, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has criticised the bail conditions granted to Dennis “Miracles” Aboagye, describing them as unfair.

In a post on X on Tuesday, Mr Oppong Nkrumah questioned the circumstances surrounding Aboagye’s arrest and detention by the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO), arguing that the NPP communicator had demonstrated his willingness to cooperate with investigators.

“Miracles was arrested on Saturday upon his return to Ghana. A man who had previously responded to invitations to answer questions. He was not a flight risk,” he wrote.

Mr Oppong Nkrumah further noted that Aboagye had just arrived in Accra when he was arrested and alleged that he was denied access to his lawyers throughout Saturday and Sunday, despite investigators not questioning him until Monday.

“The government knew all along they won’t interrogate him till Monday. But they arrested him and kept him,” he stated.

He also criticised the bail terms imposed after Aboagye’s interrogation, arguing that they were excessively stringent.

“On Monday at 8pm he was granted 50m cedis bail with three sureties, two of which should be justified. Obviously the plan is to keep him for days,” Mr Oppong Nkrumah said.

According to him, such actions risk normalising what he considers an erosion of the rule of law.

“If you think this is where our rule of law should go, that’s fine. He will survive this. But it becomes the new normal,” he added.

Mr Oppong Nkrumah also claimed that two other NPP communicators had been arrested within the past three days, suggesting that the pattern raises concerns about the treatment of opposition voices.

“Of course the state will never admit it is designed to suppress dissenting voices. But again this has become the new normal,” he wrote.

Aboagye was arrested by EOCO on Saturday, July 11, upon his arrival at the Accra International Airport from the United States.

EOCO has said he is being investigated alongside former Inter-Ministerial Coordinating Committee on Decentralisation (IMCCoD) accountant Gerald Appiah and other individuals over an alleged GH¢55 million financial and procurement scandal.

The investigation follows a petition and a forensic audit into the operations of the IMCCoD Secretariat between August 2022 and February 2025.