Wontumi still faces 2 major court cases despite 20-year jail sentence

The Ashanti Regional Chairman of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) is still facing 2 separate criminal cases before the courts, one involving alleged illegal mining activities in the Tano Nimiri Forest Reserve and another over an alleged GH¢30 million Ghana Export-Import (EXIM) Bank fraud.

The NPP Ashanti Regional Chairman still faces two pending court cases over alleged illegal mining in the Tano Nimiri Forest Reserve and an alleged GH¢30 million EXIM Bank fraud.

The pending cases involve alleged illegal mining in the Tano Nimiri Forest Reserve and an alleged GH¢30 million EXIM Bank fraud, with plea bargain negotiations ongoing in the latter.