{"id":988154,"date":"2022-02-12T12:09:01","date_gmt":"2022-02-12T12:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/12\/fixthecountry-campaigner-arrested-for-instigating-coup\/"},"modified":"2022-02-12T12:09:01","modified_gmt":"2022-02-12T12:09:01","slug":"fixthecountry-campaigner-arrested-for-instigating-coup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/12\/fixthecountry-campaigner-arrested-for-instigating-coup\/","title":{"rendered":"#FixTheCountry Campaigner Arrested For Instigating Coup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Convener of the #FixtheCountry Movement, Oliver Barker Vormawor has been arrested at the Kotoka International International Airport ( KIA), after arriving at the KIA on Friday, February 11, 2022<\/p>\n<p>The suspect was picked up by the Tema Regional Police Command following a post he allegedly made on a social media platform to the effect that he would stage a coup himself if the E-Levy Bill is passed by Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>According to Police reports available to DGN Online, the suspect Barker-Vormawor left the United Kingdom Friday, 11th February 2022 for Accra, where he is scheduled to have a series of meetings with the diplomatic community.<\/p>\n<p>He arrived at the\u00a0Kotoka International Airport\u00a0(KIA) at 4:59 pm on TAP Air Portugal flight TP 1527, where he was whisked away by some armed men on his way into the arrival hall at KIA.<\/p>\n<p>His arrest becomes necessary following a coup plot comments he made on Facebook and also inciting the army to stage a coup over the controversial E-Levy bill in Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>He posted that \u201cIf this E-Levy passes after this cake bullshit, I will do the coup myself. Useless Army!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In another post, he said: \u201cOkay, let\u2019s try again. If this E-Levy still passes after this cake bullshit, then may\u00a0God\u2026.Help us to resist oppressor\u2019s rule, With all our will and might forevermore. (2x)<br \/>Useless Army. Anaa, the value is the same?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, a section of the public on social media condemned his action, calling on the security agencies to arrest him over his comments.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the social media users in a post noted that \u201cOsagyefo Oliver Barker-Vormawor lacks discernment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>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 of Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>The Police said he will be arraigned before the court on Monday, 14th February 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe continue to call on the good people of Ghana to avoid making pronouncements that may lead to a breach of the peace of the country as any such acts contravene the laws of the country\u201d the statement added.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BY Daniel Bampoe<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Convener of the #FixtheCountry Movement, Oliver Barker Vormawor has been arrested at the Kotoka International International Airport ( KIA), after arriving at the KIA on Friday, February 11, 2022 The suspect was picked up by the Tema Regional Police Command following a post he allegedly made on a social media platform to the effect that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":988155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988154","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\/988154","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=988154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}