“Wontumi has been made a scapegoat” – Miracles Aboagye

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Miracles Dennis Aboagye, the Communications team member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has said the NPP Ashanti Regional Chairman, Bernard Antwi-Boasiako, popularly known as Chairman Wontumi, has been made a scapegoat.

According to Miracles Aboagye, Chairman Wontumi’s public utterances while the NPP was in power were a major reason behind his current 20-year prison sentence and not because of galamsey.

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Miracles Aboagye stressed that Wontumi was jailed because of his own mouth and has been made a scapegoat unless people don’t want to accept the truth.

Speaking during a discussion on UTV, Miracles Aboagye stated, “We all know that the reason why Chairman Wontumi is in jail isn’t because of galamsey but because of his own mouth. As for Chairman Wontumi being used as a scapegoat for a political party, we knew that was going to happen. He is a political prisoner”.

“We all know that Chairman Wontumi is a scapegoat unless you don’t want to accept the truth.

“He’s in jail because of politics. He’s a political prisoner. I doubt he would have been in there if he wasn’t Chairman Wontumi. There are a lot of galamsey operators, so why haven’t they been jailed?” he added.

In related news, Dr Justice Srem-Sai, the Deputy Attorney-General and Minister for Justice, has justified why only Chairman Wontumi was prosecuted in the Samreboi illegal mining case.

According to Srem-Sai, the other accused persons took advantage of the plea bargain law and forfeited their assets gained from their illegal operations.

Speaking in an interview with TV3,  Justice Srem-Sai stated, “Henry Okum and Michael Gyedu Ayisi took advantage of the plea bargain law and forfeited their assets”.

Also, 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.

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