Minority cites ‘major defects’ in Wontumi judgment, vows legal, parliamentary action

The Minority in Parliament has described the High Court judgment sentencing the New Patriotic Party's (NPP) Ashanti Regional Chairman, Bernard Antwi Boasiako, popularly known as Chairman Wontumi, to 20 years' imprisonment as fundamentally flawed, citing what it says are four major legal defects in the ruling.

Mrs Appiagyei further argued that the judgment improperly pierced the corporate veil of Akonta Mining Limited by treating the company and Chairman Wontumi as one entity."The Minority will do whatever is lawfully and properly within its powers, through Parliament and through public advocacy, to see that justice is done and that the defects which have robbed the judgment of its legitimacy are corrected," she said.