Kwame Asare Obeng, popularly known as APlus, who is a Member of Parliament (MP) for Gomoa Central, has warned the Ghanaian government over the New Patriotic Party Bono Regional Chairman, Kwame Baffoe, popularly known as Abronye’s Arrest and detention, described it as arbitrary
In an interview with GhanaWeb on Wednesday, September 10, 2025, A Plus stated that, Abronye was arrested and detained just because of comments, describing this act as a wrong attempt
He added that even though he has being the one Abronye was insulting he explained that defamation suits should have been put in place and not arrest and arbitrary detention
I’m not saying that nobody should be arrested, but arresting, detaining, remanding just for expressing or insulting somebody, | may not agree with what you have to say, even about me or anybody else, but | will defend to the death anybody’s right to freedom of information.
Abronye has insulted me more than anybody in this country, but that does not change the fact that people must not be arrested and detained. If you have issues with people, you can go and sue them for defamation.
If somebody makes comments in this country, | don’t believe that people must be arrested and detained for making comments. | stand by that, whether the person is my enemy or my friend. I’m not speaking because Abronye is a friend or because | like Abronye.
The musician-turned-politician said that the government should rather focus on prosecuting people who have stolen from the state through corrupt practices, and not persons who make comments on some issues.
I’m not going to arrest people just because of what they have said. We should spend that energy arresting people who have stolen from this country. Instead of spending that energy to arrest Obama Pokuasi, Fante Comedy, and Abronye, people have chopped our money, and they are the ones that have to be dealt with,” he said.
He also asserted that although there have been precedents of people being arrested and jailed over allegations they made, that should not be repeated, saying, “We are resetting, we are moving away from some of these things
There is a precedent for a lot that happened to journalists in this country. Are we saying that because there is precedent, it should continue like that, or were we looking at something different?”
The politicians only know all the laws that allow them to arrest and detain people or even jail people when they are in government — they know every law; public order, misdemeanour, offensive conduct.
Immediately, they go to the opposition; they remember all the embassies where they can go and seek asylum. Then they remember that they have been victimised for something that they have said,” he added.
