Blakk Rasta, a Ghanaian reggae artiste and media personality, has provided more details about the revelation that the NPP Ashanti Regional Chairman, Bernard Antwi Boasiako, popularly known as Chairman Wontumi, bid to repay millions in the Exim Bank fraud case, which has been rejected.
It will be recalled that Ghanaian broadcaster Austine Woode detailed that Wontumi has been asking for a meeting to pay the amount in an alleged fraud and deceit case, but the bank rejected.
He disclosed that the bank directed Chairman Wontumi to go to the Attorney General instead.
In a post on his X page on June 3, 2026, the broadcaster wrote, “Sources at Exim Bank say Chairman Wontumi came there asking for a meeting to pay the amount in an alleged fraud and deceit case, but the bank rejected it and asked them to go to the Attorney General”.
Speaking on his show, The Black Pot, Blakk Rasta narrated how the Attorney General and EOCO rejected Wontumi’s attempts to repay millions in the Exim Bank fraud case.
Blakk Rasta narrated, saying, “Now this guy, all of a sudden, runs to the Exim Bank that he was going to pay. They must… Exim Bank said, ‘You are going to pay what? You have been investigated for this. If anything at all, go to the Attorney General, EOCO, and the rest, and pay the money.’ Chairman Wontumi runs to EOCO, runs to the Attorney General… I have brought the money I want to refund it.
Go back to court. Now that this case is just opening, the Exim Bank go to court tell the judge that you agree that you stole their money. Because initially, he said you didn’t. You said you bought some tractors, you said you had land, and you paid salaries to boys to work. Why are you bringing back the money?
This is what many people don’t know. EOCO has been able to trace the money into one of their accounts of this guy and has put it on freeze. The Attorney General has made sure that there’s more ice on the account. It’s frozen thick ice. There’s money in it. We have traced the money.
We are seeing where the money is. Now you come back with a check for money to be withdrawn from the same account that we have frozen? Where we have seen the money…”.
Blakk Rasta further disclosed, “It’s like you’re chasing a thief. The thief has denied that he has not stolen anything. Then, from your own investigations, you see the money is hiding in a bag. So go and take it back.
Now the thief comes to you, having gone and seen the bag: ‘I am coming to tell you that it is true that the money I actually took it, but I didn’t steal it; it was for safety. So that money is what we are holding.
So right now, he has to go back to court. According to the Attorney General, he’s not cutting any deal with anybody.
Go to court, Chairman Wontumi. Go and tell the judge in the presence of your lawyer, Appiah Kubi, Esq.
Let the court listen to this.’If that is what is on your mind… If you say you didn’t take the money, all of a sudden you are coming back to pay for what you did. Think it’s ridiculous. It looks like EOCO is the backbone of all the crime-fighting in Ghana right now.
The Office of Special Prosecutor is deep, ice-frozen in the Arctic Ocean. EOCO is kicking their ass, as we say in America”.
It will be recalled that Chairman Wontumi was slapped with fresh charges over a GH¢14.3M Exim Bank loan case.
He was slapped with fresh charges, including fraud by false pretence.
Wontumi, Thomas Antwi-Boasiako (at large) and Wontumi Farms Limited are facing four counts of charges per the charge sheet filed on Friday, May 15, 2026.
The charge sheet filed on Friday, May 15, 2026, signed by Deputy Attorney General Dr Justice Srem-Sai, detailed that “Chairman Wontumi is personally facing three of the four counts of the charge of defrauding by false pretence, contrary to Section 131 of the Criminal Offences Act, 1960 (Act 29); uttering of a forged document, contrary to Section 169 of the Criminal Offences Act, 1960 (Act 29); and money laundering, contrary to Section 1(2)(c) of the Anti-Money Laundering Act, 2020 (Act 1044)”.
“Together with Thomas Antwi-Boasiako and Wontumi Farms Limited, they are facing the charge of intentionally causing financial loss to a public body, contrary to Section 179A(2) of the Criminal Offences Act, 1960 (Act 29)”, Starr FM stated.
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Exclusive: EOCO rejects Chairman
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Wontumi’s plea deal. Wontumi went to the bank to settle, but….Listen to the details pic.twitter.com/OoYKDyl5mc
