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Legal practitioner calls for Wontumi's sentence to be slashed, argues several employees livelihood depend on him
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A lawyer who was present in court during the sentencing of Bernard Antwi-Boasiako, popularly known as Chairman Wontumi, has explained why he appealed to the judge to consider reducing the sentence imposed on the businessman and politician.
A lawyer who intervened during Bernard Antwi-Boasiako’s sentencing says he appealed for a lighter punishment because Wontumi is a businessman whose many employees depend on him for their livelihoods.
Speaking to journalists after the ruling on Monday, July 20, the lawyer said his intervention was not based on any personal relationship with the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), but was made in his capacity as a “friend of the court”.
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