Solomon Owusu, a communications team member of the Movement for Change, has alleged that Bernard Antwi Boasiako, also known as Wontumi, the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), feigned illness to avoid punishment.
According to Owusu, this is not the first time Wontumi has used this tactic, citing his previous incident at the Manhyia Palace where he feigned sickness after being summoned.
“This is not the first time Wontumi is feigning sickness to skip his punishment. He did the same thing when he was summoned at Manhyia so it’s one of his tricks and we know it,” he said Wednesday, May 28, 2025 on TV3’s BigIssue segment on NewDay.
His comments followed a revelation by Wontumi’s lead counsel, Andy Kwame Appiah-Kubi, that his client, Bernard Antwi-Boasiako, alias Chairman Wontumi has been hospitalised.
He disclosed this after emerging from the premises of the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) in the late hours of Tuesday, May 27, 2025.
“My client has been taken to the hospital. He fell ill and has been sent to the hospital. He will be there until he is treated. I know which hospital he has been taken to, but I won’t tell you,” Mr Appiah-Kubi told journalists at the forecourt of the EOCO office where he and his client had been engaging with officials for over 8 hours.
Appiah-Kubi further disclosed that Wontumi was interrogated in relation to his dealings with EXIM Bank.
“They preferred some allegations against him, he refuted them. We have not finished with interrogation. We will come back tomorrow to continue if he gets well. They laid charges on the relationship between himself and EXIM Bank. We have also received a writ of summons from EXIM Bank and we will respond tomorrow,” he stated.
Chairman Wontumi was arrested and detained by EOCO officials upon his departure from the CID Police Headquarters on Tuesday, May 27, 2025.
According to OnuaOnline’s sources, Chairman Wontumi was accosted by some masked men after he has been interrogated by the police.
Subsequently, some party executives and lawyers of Chairman Wontumi massed up at the EOCO office. Wontumi honoured police invitation on Tuesday, May 27, after appearing for interrogation on Monday, May 26, 2025.
He was granted bail with two sureties and was cautioned on three allegations, which are; Undertaking mining operations without a license; Pollution of water bodies and Entering a forest reserve without authorisation.
No one is persecuting Wontumi; he’s paying for his own ills – Solomon Owusu
