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Emmanuel Akinwotu in Accra

Ghana ‘fix the country’ activist says he was assaulted and illegally detained

Oliver Barker-Vormawor, a Ghanian activist who founded the “fix the country” protest movement.
Oliver Barker-Vormawor founded the ‘fix the country’ protest movement and criticised the government on Facebook. Photograph: Facebook

A prominent Ghanaian activist has accused authorities of subjecting him to a violent assault and illegal detention after he criticised the government in a series of Facebook posts.

Oliver Barker-Vormawor, a doctoral student at the University of Cambridge who founded the prominent “fix the country” protest movement, was arrested after he landed at Kotoka airport in Accra in February on a flight from the UK.

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