Bernard Antwi Boasiako (Chairman Wontumi) - Ashanti Regional NPP Chairman
The Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Bernard Antwi Boasiako, had a terrible time with his one-day experience in Police custody.
The regional Chairman, popularly known as Chairman Wontumi, according to Dr. Amoako Tuffuor, an Elder of the Danquah-Busia-Dombo tradition, was treated like a “typical prisoner” in a Ghanaian prison.
“A bucket of sh*t was placed beside him while in Police cells. He was made to smell the sh*t just like a prisoner. Why should it be so?” he noted.
The former Director of the School Feeding Program made this revelation in an interview with Accra FM, Monday.
Wontumi, according to the Dr. Tuffour never bothered about the ordeal he went through and has since moved on.
The NPP Ashanti Regional Chairman was declared wanted by the Police and subsequently issued a warrant for his arrest after he refused to honour an invitation extended to him by the men and women in black uniform to assist in investigations of an assault case against him.
This follows a complaint that was lodged against him by the MP for Manhyia North, Collins Owusu Amankwaa and the constituency Secretary, Felix Ibrahim, for assaulting them while they were observing the Limited Voter Registration exercise at a registration center named Nana Fodjour House in Krofrom in Kumasi last Sunday, May 1, 2016.
A statement issued, Monday, May 2, 2016, and signed by Asst/Superintendent of Police, Yusif Tanko, of the Ashanti Regional Police Command said “Instructions have therefore been issued to the Regional CID to have Chairman Wontumi arrested to assist in investigations”.
The statement in part further read “However, it will be in his own interest to report to answer the offence of assault that was allegedly committed at Krofrom”.
But Wontumi in an attempt to avoid any embarrassment, turned himself in at the Tafo Divisional Police Command, Tuesday, May 3, 2016, where he had earlier, also reported an assault case against the Manhyia North MP.
The party chairman was therefore referred to the Regional Police Headquarters at Adum where he was detained and subsequently put behind bars after taking his statement.
Several attempts by his lawyers to bail him were denied by the Police and they had no option than to spend the night in cells.
He has since been granted bail by the Asokwa Magistrate Court in the sum of GHc20,000.00.
