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Incarcerated Kennedy Agyapong sure isn't going home any minute now if reports filtering in tend to be true. Reports say moments after the beleaguered Member of Parliament for Assin North was granted bail with two sureties in the sum of GH� 200,000 by a Human Rights Court, state prosecutors are said to have leveled fresh charges against him. He has charged with an additional offence of engaging in acts of terrorism and causing fear and panic. The NPP MP was initially charged with three counts of treason, treason felony and attempted genocide. A couple of hours ago, he was granted bail based on health grounds and because he is a Member of Parliament after his lawyers filed an application for habeas corpus, which was upheld by the court on Thursday. The court, presided over by Justice Kofi Essel-Mensah, also held that the police cannot re-arrest him until he appears in court on the 24th of April. The NPP firebrand is reported to have high blood pressure and is also a diabetic patient. Earlier on Wednesday, the treason trial of the embattled NPP activist suffered a "legal limbo" when Justice Patricia Quansah, a magistrate at Adjabeng Court in Accra, referred the case to the Chief Justice Georgina Wood for advice stating that she had no jurisdiction to continue with the case. According to the trial judge, her jurisdiction does not extend to cases of such magnitude. Meanwhile, party faithfuls who thronged the NPP headquarters in Asylum Down to celebrate the release of the NPP firebrand and were left dejected on the latest development, are said to have converged again at the court premises shouting "Free Ken Agyapong Now!!!" More soon....