Minority challenges High Court ruling against Wontumi

However, in a press statement issued on Monday, 20 July 2026, and signed by Minority Leader Osahen Alexander Kwamena Afenyo-Markin, the Minority Caucus alleged procedural irregularities and selective prosecution, vowing to test the decision at the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court.

The Minority Caucus in Parliament has raised sharp constitutional objections to the 20-year prison sentence handed down to the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Bernard Antwi-Boasiako, popularly known as Chairman Wontumi, describing the verdict as a miscarriage of justice.

In a judgment delivered by Justice Audrey Kocuvie-Tay at the High Court in Accra, Chairman Wontumi and his firm, Akonta Mining Limited, were convicted on two counts each under the Minerals and Mining Act, 2006 (Act 703), as amended.