The ‘fix the country’ activist suing Ghana for illegal detention

Cambridge doctoral student Oliver Barker-Vormawor says trauma is still there' as he files lawsuit

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.