A netizen on X has mocked the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Ashanti Regional Chairman Bernard Antwi-Boasiako, popularly known as Chairman Wontumi, after his 20-year jail sentence.
The netizen in his post shared an old video of Chairman Wontumi, boasting about his wealth.
According to Wontumi, in Kumasi he has about 100 houses.
Speaking in an interview with GHOne TV’s Serwaa Amihere in 2025, Wontumi stated, “Kumasi here, I have about 100 houses. If you go to Kwadaso, there is a place I have built about 69 houses.
“It is not about boasting here and there. Where are they? Where is the identity? Where can they see them? Anything they have, I have more. I am the governor of Ashanti”, he said.
The netizen reacting to Wontumi’s conviction and sentencing in the Samreboi illegal mining case wrote, “In the next 20 years, he won’t be sleeping in any of those houses smh. The rollercoaster of life 😤”.
Meanwhile, the Ofoase-Ayirebi Member of Parliament, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has said Chairman Wontumi, the NPP Ashanti Regional Chairman, has been incarcerated while the actual galamsey kingpin has been left off the hook.
Oppong Nkrumah argued that Chairman Wontumi was not convicted for engaging in illegal mining but over activities allegedly carried out by another person on land linked to his company.
The NPP MP was quoted to have said, “Several NDC persons whose submission of no case had been rejected by the courts and had a case to answer, have been left off the hook by the NDC prosecutors and the courts”.
According to Oppong Nkrumah, Wontumi’s conviction did not stem from allegations that he personally engaged in illegal mining.
“Instead, Wontumi has been jailed not for illegal mining but that someone who he argues he gave his company’s former mine to, for purposes of reclamation, was found doing mining on it,” he stated.
Oppong Nkrumah further questioned why the individual allegedly involved in the mining activity was not punished.
“And yet the actual illegal miner has been set loose rather,” he said.
“This is not law or justice. It is a weaponising of the justice delivery system. This is why the NPP considers Wontumi a political prisoner. The justice system has been turned upside down,” Oppong Nkrumah added.
Also, a market woman at Central Market has reacted to the 20-year prison sentence of Chairman Wontumi, the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the NPP.
According to the Market woman, Wontumi deserves a 30-year sentence and not 20.
She argued that Chairman Wontumi was flaunting gold bars on live TV while Ghana’s water bodies are being destroyed.
Speaking in a viral video, the Market woman stated, “Wontumi deserves to be jailed; he was flaunting gold bars on his radio station, bragging. He deserves 30 years, 20 years. Years is too small”.
See the post below:
In the next 20 years, he won’t be sleeping in any of those houses smh. The rollercoaster of life 😤 pic.twitter.com/5gmQn0bHv4
— Muhammad Yaasiin (@Hajjyass70) July 20, 2026
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