The New Patriotic Party (NPP) minority in Parliament has strongly condemned the circumstances surrounding the arrest and bail conditions of the party's Ashanti Regional Chairman, Bernard Antwi Boasiako, also known as Chairman Wontumi.
Speaking to JoyNews' Kwaku Asante at the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) headquarters in Accra, the Minority leader, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, described the GH¢50 million bail condition imposed on Wontumi as excessive and unjustifiable.
Chairman Wontumi, who was arrested earlier this week and interrogated by EOCO, was later granted bail of GH¢50 million with two sureties to be justified, a condition party members claim is excessive and politically motivated.
Mr Afenyo-Markin questioned the rationale behind asking a citizen to first provide properties worth GH¢50 million before being granted bail, especially when the individual had already cooperated with law enforcement agencies.
