The High Court in Accra has issued a bench warrant for the arrest of Bernard Antwi Boasiako, the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), commonly referred to as Chairman Wontumi, due to his failure to appear in court without prior permission.
Chairman Wontumi, along with his legal team, was not present, and no justification was given to the court when the case was called at 9:40 a.m. on Tuesday, October 28.
However, the prosecution team, led by Chief State Attorney Stella Ohene Appiah, was in attendance.
Presiding judge Justice Audrey Kocuvi-Tay remarked that the proceedings for the day were intended for the submission of disclosures and subsequent case management.
She expressed her concern regarding the absence of the accused and his attorneys, stressing that they had provided “no excuse of any sort to the court.”
Chairman Wontumi is on trial alongside Kwame Antwi, a director of Akonta Mining Limited, and the company itself. The three have been charged with the unlawful assignment of mineral rights without proper approval.
