Salomey Awiti Baffoe, a mother of three and a Senior Nursing Officer, has reconnected with her family after receiving a GH¢100,000 bail in connection with the continuing ‘Ghana Jollof’ case.
In September, the 40-year-old nurse from Techiman was taken into custody at her Hansua, Techiman, home and later charged with abetment of crime, namely publishing false news. The accusation has been denied by her.
According to her uncle, Kojo Asiedu, Salomey seems well after her release, but the family still needs to have her evaluated by a medical expert to properly determine her health.
Mr. Asiedu thanked Adom News for its assistance in locating Salomey’s whereabouts during her imprisonment.
“I brought her from Accra, but in due course, she will thank everyone for their help and support. She is extremely grateful for what everyone did. She is fine and has been released from police custody,” he stated.
He claimed that the family, especially Salomey’s two kids who hadn’t seen their mother in a long time, was experiencing great relief and happiness as a result of her homecoming.
“We are very thrilled, it was more than simply a Christmas celebration. When her children saw her, and how they responded, it was heartbreaking. They joyfully welcomed her back since it had been some time since they had seen their mother,” he stated.
Salomey’s mother, according to Mr. Asiedu, has also been significantly impacted by her absence and has stopped eating.
“Salomey’s mother wasn’t eating either, but when she saw her daughter, she said she would, and so all of the family members are very happy,” he continued.
He thanked the media for assisting the family in finding Salomey and for keeping up with the events that led to her release.
“We also thank the media; if not for your intervention, we would not have known where Salomey was, but you helped to locate her and that she was with the police at the right time; you have also helped for her to be released,” he said.
Additionally, Mr. Asiedu voiced his worry about the circumstances of Salomey’s arrest, saying that at first the family thought she had been abducted.
“We are really afraid. We initially believed that armed robbers had arrived to abduct our daughter, so we gave up hope until the media conducted their own investigations and discovered where she was being kept,” he stated.
He expressed his concern over the way Salomey was apprehended and urged the government to ensure that security organizations adhere to the appropriate protocols while making arrests.
He stated that we are hoping that the government will prevent such a scenario from occurring again if at all possible.
Furthermore, he voiced worries that this strategy might be taken advantage of by criminals who pose as security officers.
“It could even lead to bad individuals using this strategy to commit crimes, therefore we ask the government if they can stop this. They ought to utilize the appropriate method to apprehend persons even if they have committed a crime. But I was concerned about how they came to pick up my niece,” he said.
He also said that her family is still worried about Salomey’s health and plans to get her checked out by medical professionals.
He said, “We are still concerned about her health, therefore we will give her to medical specialists for them to examine her health for us so we may determine if she is very well and her health is also stable.”
The case against Salomey comes from her purported connections to Barbara Asantewaa Kodua, often known as “Ghana Jollof.” Police assert that Salomey functioned as a go-between and helped in the recruitment of people to redistribute films made by Ms. Kodua on a variety of social media sites. The charges have not been proven in court.
Salomey has entered a plea of not guilty to the accusations and is still entitled to the presumption of innocence throughout the case.
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