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20-year sentence for Wontumi is within the law NPP enacted – Inusah Fuseini
However, he said the NPP Majority in Parliament rejected the proposal as too lenient and amended it to provide for a stiffer punishment of between 15 and 25 years.
Mr Fuseini recalled that then Attorney General Gloria Akuffo had initially proposed a sentencing range of 10 to 15 years for specific illegal mining offences.
Parliament itself amended the proposal and substituted it with 15 to 25 years," he stated.
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