EOCO Officers Storm Wontumi’s

Officers from the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) stormed the home of incarcerated former Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Bernard Antwi Boasiako, popularly known as Chairman Wontumi, on Monday, November 9, 2026 to take measurements of the property.

EOCO has already filed an application before a High Court in Accra to confiscate properties of Chairman Wontumi, claiming they were purchased using proceeds of crime.

The properties include his Akonta Mining Limited concession, mining equipment, landed properties, vehicles, investments and GH¢50 million invested in Treasury Bills through Paradise Insurance Limited.

Chairman Wontumi, who is already serving twenty years for mining-related offences, has been accused of obtaining GH¢14,302,000 from the Ghana Export-Import Bank in 2018 under false pretences.

The businessman is further accused of using a forged receipt, knowing that the same is not genuine, to obtain about GH¢4,000,000 from the bank in 2017 and 2018.

Information available indicates that Wontumi’s children were living in the facility with their grandmother at the time the officers stormed the house.

Dr. Palgrave Boakye Danquah, spokesperson for Chairman Wontumi, who confirmed the incident, said the children were traumatised by the situation.

“At about 3:00 p.m. this afternoon [Monday], I received a call from the family of Chairman Wontumi and they narrated the situation to me. The full details as narrated by the grandma of the children of Chairman Wontumi. She stated that they were home and the children kept shouting that there were some armed men at the gate. She approached them and asked why they were there. She said they told her they were there to take measurements of the house,” Dr. Danquah indicated.

He further stated that “She said they told her that they were sent to come and check the properties that he [Wontumi] has, in terms of the items that he has. They walked around the house. They spent about 45 minutes in the house.”

Meanwhile, EOCO has denied media reports that its officers ransacked Chairman Wontumi’s home, indicating that the officers only went there to evaluate the property.

The anti-graft agency, in a statement, said its officers, “together with officials from the Lands Commission, visited the property to undertake measurements and record its geographical coordinates to facilitate a professional valuation.”

The statement said the property had already been frozen by a court, and urged the general public to disregard false publications circulating within the media space about the said activity.