{"id":107739,"date":"2025-12-20T13:52:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T13:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=107739"},"modified":"2025-12-20T13:52:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T13:52:12","slug":"govt-is-losing-the-case-against-wontumi-npps-awal-mohammed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=107739","title":{"rendered":"Gov\u2019t is losing the case against Wontumi \u2013 NPP\u2019s Awal Mohammed"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Communications Team member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Awal Mohammed, has claimed that the government is failing in its legal case against the Ashanti Regional NPP Chairman, Bernard Antwi Boasiako, popularly known as Chairman Wontumi.<\/p>\n

Speaking on Prime Insight <\/strong>on Joy Prime, Mr Mohammed said court proceedings so far show that the state lacks evidence to support its claims against Chairman Wontumi and his company, Akonta Mining.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you\u2019re following the case, you know that the government is losing. According to the government itself, they do not have any documentation to show that he authorised someone to go into the concession to do it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Mr Mohammed explained that the government had gone to court alleging that Akonta Mining authorised individuals to enter a forest reserve to engage in activities that destroyed water bodies.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou went to court and said that Chairman Wontumi\u2019s Akonta Mining had given someone authority to enter into a forest reserve to destroy our water bodies,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n

However, he said the situation changed when the court demanded evidence to back the claims. <\/p>\n

\u201cThey asked you to bring your disclosures. They asked you to tell the court if you really have any document to show that Chairman Wontumi authorised the person.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Mr Mohammed, the government admitted in its disclosures that it had no such documents.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou said you don\u2019t have any documents. You could tell from the case management that they don\u2019t even have anything.\u201d<\/p>\n