Appiah-Kubi returns as Wontumi's lawyer to appeal the NPP chairman's 20-year jail term

Chairman Wontumi was sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment after the Criminal Court 4 Division of the High Court found him guilty on all six counts brought against him.

Chairman Wontumi, Akonta Mining Limited, and a third accused person, Kwame Antwi, were prosecuted over alleged illegal mining activities on the company's concession at Samreboi in the Western Region.

Appiah-Kubi and Wontumi in a photograph at the High Court Former counsel for the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Bernard Antwi Boasiako, popularly known as Chairman Wontumi, Andy Appiah-Kubi, has disclosed that he is returning as the lawyer for the convicted NPP chairman.