EOCO says visit to Wontumi’s Tema property on Monday was for ‘professional valuation’ which lasted 10 minutes

The Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) has confirmed that officials from EOCO and the Lands Commission visited a property belonging to the incarcerated Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Bernard Antwi Boasiako, popularly known as Chairman Wontumi, in Tema on Monday.

But EOCO said the description of the visit as ransacking of the property in some media reports were false.

In a statement dated November 9, 2026, EOCO explained that the visit was part of an exercise in relation to due process following the freezing of the property by the office, an action it said was confirmed by a court in 2025.

It said the visit to the property on Monday, November 9, 2026, was undertaken jointly with officials from the Lands Commission to “obtain its coordinates and measurements for a professional valuation.”

It said the officials visited the premises to gather the necessary technical information to enable the Lands Commission to determine the property’s value.

EOCO said the exercise lasted less than 10 minutes and was completed without any incident and therefore dismissed some media reports suggesting the officers “ransacked’ items in the property.

It said the description of the exercise as an activity of ransacking of the property was false and urged the public to disregard such publications.

EOCO said the visit was strictly for valuation purposes and formed part of the processes relating to the frozen property.

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