The Economic and Organised Office (EOCO) has granted bail to the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Bernard Antwi Boasiako, popularly known as Chairman Wontumi, in the sum of GHS50 million with two sureties to be justified.
Wontumi’s legal counsel, Andy Appiah-Kubi, confirmed the development in Accra on Wednesday, May 28, following his client’s prolonged interrogation at the EOCO headquarters since Tuesday, May 27.
The arrest and subsequent questioning, believed to be connected to Wontumi’s financial dealings with EXIM Bank, sparked immediate backlash from within the NPP on Tuesday May 27.
Dozens of party supporters, including key executives, gathered outside EOCO’s premises demanding his release. Among them were the party’s National Organiser, Henry Nana Boakye, and former Greater Accra Regional Minister, Titus Glover.
In a show of solidarity on Wednesday May 28, former Member of Parliament for Assin Central and one-time presidential hopeful, Kennedy Agyapong volunteered as one of the sureties for Chairman Wontumi.
Confirming this, Kwesi Opoku, NPP’s Tema West Chairman and a known ally of Agyapong, told Citi News that Agyapong had offered his support.
“I am confirming. The counsel, Appiah-Kubi, was telling him (Ken Agyapong) what the bail conditions are. So he offered himself that he was available because the Director of Special Prosecution here will examine whatever the bail conditions are… As we speak now, he is in there,” Opoku said.
Appiah-Kubi also expressed confidence that the legal team would meet the bail conditions before the end of the day.
Meanwhile as at now, the bail conditions are yet to be met.
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