New Patriotic Party (NPP) Greater Accra Regional Chairman Dr Bernard Okoe Boye has threatened a sit-in protest at the police station where detained senior nursing officer Salomey Awiti Baffoe is being held.
Dr Okoe Boye said the Greater Accra NPP would mobilise to spend nights at the police station if Baffoe was not released to return to her family by the weekend.
His comments come amid growing public and political attention surrounding the detention of Baffoe, who has been linked by police to investigations into the “Ghana Jollof” TikTok account.
Speaking on Asempa FM’s Ekosii Sen programme, Dr Okoe Boye said the party was prepared to sustain its presence at the police station until Baffoe was released.
“If by the weekend they don’t release Salomey Awity Baffoe to her family, wherever she’s being held, we will amass ourselves to go and sleep there,” he said.
He also said the party intended to petition the Chief of Staff, the Inspector-General of Police and the Director-General of the National Signals Bureau over the matter.
Baffoe, a senior nursing officer based in Techiman, was arrested on September 13, 2026, and subsequently appeared before the Adenta Circuit Court. She has pleaded not guilty to a charge of abetment of crime relating to the publication of false news.
The Ghana Police Service says its investigation uncovered evidence allegedly linking Baffoe to Barbara Asantewaa Kodua, whom police identify as the operator of the “Ghana Jollof” TikTok account.
According to the police, forensic examination of Baffoe’s mobile phone, together with audio and video records and mobile money transactions, revealed alleged financial arrangements connected to the distribution of content produced by Kodua. Police further allege that Baffoe recruited other people to redistribute the material across social-media platforms.
Police have also said their investigation identified financial transfers involving individuals they described as high-profile persons. Authorities say investigations remain ongoing and that further persons identified through the investigation could face action.
Dr Okoe Boye, however, has questioned the continued detention of Baffoe and argued that the circumstances surrounding the case require closer scrutiny.
His position comes alongside separate legal questions raised by legal scholar Prof Stephen Kwaku Asare, who has questioned aspects of the prosecution’s case based on the charge sheet and police brief facts available to him. Prof Asare has stressed that his observations were based on those documents and were not intended to determine the eventual merits of the case.
The case has therefore generated debate over criminal investigations, detention, due process and the rights of an accused person.
For now, Baffoe remains before the court, while police investigations into the wider “Ghana Jollof” case continue.
GhanaMedia will continue to follow developments in the case as authorities, the court and the parties involved provide further information.
