Two women who made abusive and offensive statements against President John Mahama concerning the August 6 helicopter crash have been granted bail.
Appearing before an Adenta Circuit Court, Priscilla Duah Birago, a 29-year-old National Service Person, and Charity Dede Tetteh, 29, a beautician, were admitted to bail in the sum of GHC100,000 each with two sureties.
According to the court, one of the sureties should be justified with any property.
Tetteh and Birago have pleaded not guilty to conspiracy to commit crime with offensive conduct and offensive conduct to the breach of peace.
They are alleged to have conspired to make offensive statements, to wit, “We would have been happier if the President, His Excellency John Dramani Mahama, was involved in the helicopter crash and dwarves had eaten him up. A lot of people are dying under his tenure of office.”
The court, presided over by Mrs Angela Attache, admonished the accused persons to stay out of trouble in relation to the matter before the court, as the matter was a sensitive one.
A team of three lawyers, led by Enoch Anhwere Afoakwa, said they will advise the accused persons.
The prosecution, led by Chief Inspector Maxwell Lanyo, informed the court that the police had yet to obtain an order from the High Court to access the phones of the person accused.
Chief Inspector Lanyo, however, did not oppose the grant of bail to the accused persons.
The matter has been adjourned to November 5, 2025.
Prosecution’s case is that on August 6, 2025, Tettey and Birago hosted a live-streamed discussion on their social media platform, TikTok, during which they made offensive and abusive statements against President Mahama.
It said Birago disseminated those offensive statements on her TikTok account name “Abena Birago.”
Subsequently, the accused persons were arrested by the law enforcement agencies for investigation.
Prosecution told the court that a forensic capture of the live stream was obtained as evidence.
