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Chairman Wontumi instructs lawyers to appeal 20-year jail term
On Monday, July 20, the Accra High Court convicted Chairman Wontumi and his company, Akonta Mining, after finding them guilty of illegal mining offences committed at the company’s Samreboi concession in the Western Region.
Lawyers for the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Bernard Antwi Boasiako, popularly known as Chairman Wontumi, have been instructed to appeal the 20-year prison sentence imposed on him by the Accra High Court over illegal mining activities.
The disclosure was made by Kwame Andy Appiah Kubi, a former lead counsel for Chairman Wontumi, during an interview on TV3’s News Central on Monday, July 20.
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