{"id":1223918,"date":"2022-10-13T20:20:38","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T20:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/13\/barker-vormawor-treason-felony-case-adjourned\/"},"modified":"2022-10-13T20:20:38","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T20:20:38","slug":"barker-vormawor-treason-felony-case-adjourned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/13\/barker-vormawor-treason-felony-case-adjourned\/","title":{"rendered":"Barker Vormawor treason felony case adjourned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The high court has adjourned the case of treason felony against Oliver Barker Vormawor.<\/p>\n<p>Barker Vormawor is on trial for allegedly attempting to commit a coup d\u2019\u00e9tat.<\/p>\n<p>His lawyers were hoping to argue an application to strike out the bill of indictment, but the case was adjourned.<\/p>\n<p>Barker Vormawor is currently on GH\u00a22 million bail.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecution argued that it received the application this morning and needed time to prepare.<\/p>\n<p>The arguments are expected to be heard on October 21.<\/p>\n<p>The activist has been accused of inciting an overthrow of constitutional organs of government, but he has denied the claims and said he is ready to go to trial.<\/p>\n<p>He was arrested on February 11, 2022, over claims that he had threatened to cause a coup if the government went ahead to pass the controversial Electronic Transaction Levy.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"PifUrYawpWA\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"#Fixthecountry Convener Oliver Barker-Vormawor speaks for first time after his detention and release\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PifUrYawpWA?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The high court has adjourned the case of treason felony against Oliver Barker Vormawor. Barker Vormawor is on trial for allegedly attempting to commit a coup d\u2019\u00e9tat. His lawyers were hoping to argue an application to strike out the bill of indictment, but the case was adjourned. Barker Vormawor is currently on GH\u00a22 million bail. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1223920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1223918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1223918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1223918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1223918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1223918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}