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Azar breaks down Wontumi's convictions and 20-year jail sentence

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  • A 5 days ago

    Pls come home and contribute towards the devt of the nation if you feel you're a Ghanaian and stop throwing stones over the wall. Enough of those teachings we don't need it.

  • Jesus is king 5 days ago

    Say no to isla.m and choose a real religion. You can join ex-musli.m organisations and be safe.

  • PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE P33) 5 days ago

    “WHOSOEVER ‘DIGGED’ THE PIT SHALL FALL IN IT” ——- Bob Marley.
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  • Ibrahim Muhammad 5 days ago

    You are idiot descendant of pigs

  • Ibrahim Muhammad 5 days ago

    All the prophets were Muslims including Jesus Christ

  • TAKE OR PAY DEMON 5 days ago

    FRAUD ALERT!
    An organisation called CPWC is defrauding Ghanaians in huge sums of money using a semblance of Ponzy Scheme. It is interesting that anytime NDC is in power we see the ugly heads of Ponzy Schemes. During the time ...
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  • COBBLERS 5 days ago

    10/10 for your words of wisdom which will fall on deaf ears and blinkered eyes!

  • WAA LOOK! THEY ARE JAILING THE SMALL FISH LIKE WONTUMI , WHILE BIG ONES LIKE AKUFO-ADDO, KUFUOR AND MANY OF THEIR APPOINTEES KNOWN TO HAVE COMMITTED A VARIETY OF STATE CRIMES ARE STILL WALKING FREE. 5 days ago

    WAA LOOK! THEY ARE JAILING THE SMALL FISH LIKE WONTUMI , WHILE BIG ONES LIKE AKUFO-ADDO, KUFUOR AND MANY OF THEIR APPOINTEES KNOWN TO HAVE COMMITTED A VARIETY OF STATE CRIMES ARE STILL WALKING FREE.

    GHANA IS REALLY A PONZ ...
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  • Adwoa 5 days ago

    You and who don’t need it , well clear explanation, reasons and conclusions for the sentencing. This is a Judge appointed by Nana Addo to the High Court. She was fair and straightforward here. But conviction used to be not ...
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  • Barikisu Ayamba 5 days ago

    Well said. These guys are part of the problem neutrals against NPP. Kweku Azar there are human beings in NPP. One day you will see clearly without your scales. Never see anything good in any NPP initiative. God will strike at ...
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  • SURVIVAL. 5 days ago

    Ghana journalists we don't say SENTENCE WITH HARD LABOUR,the correct thing to say is SENTENCE IN HARD LABOUR.

  • Adamu 5 days ago

    Who be this? Grammar school teacher?

  • Azerbaijan 5 days ago

    That man who thinks he knows better than anybody in Ghana should keep quiet. He is only trying to be sympathising with Wontumi but inwardly he is fake. He should come home and educate those illiterate galamsey idiots to stop ...
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  • Randy Bio Appenteng 5 days ago

    Professor Asare is NDC propagandist. Why did he critique the ruling instead of analyzing? During the time of NPP government he was calling some judges names. I will not be surprised if president Mahama in his reshuffle would ...
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  • Nana 5 days ago

    So, it means the judgment was based on presumptions but not factual evidence.
    Alleluyah!!!!

  • Adwoa 5 days ago

    Read over or fa wo book wai

  • Yabi Yabi 5 days ago

    @Nana
    Where did you get the ideas for your conclusion that the judgment was based on presumption? How did biblical Solomon get to know the rightful mother of the child 2 mothers were laying claim to?

    To believe that a man ...
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  • Tonyb 5 days ago

    The law is the law Period

  • OSONO 5 days ago

    WONTUMI WAS LOCKED IN THE FILTHIEST CELL AT NSAWAM PRISON
    It is sad NPP is defending wrong doing because it was perpetrated by their party member.
    Anyway, the NPP group has never been patriotic even before independence. Ca ...
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  • Ioe Pee 5 days ago

    Mahama n his Attorney-Generals are committing extreme wickedness n huge injustice, simply to further the NDC’s course n on social media people support them. God is mocked! The day of judgement is coming soon when you all wi ...
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  • Dwen Ka Kra 5 days ago

    Where was God when Wontumi was doing the destruction and pollution.

  • Kwame 5 days ago

    Wontumi says Henry Okum will recover cost of reclaiming land(degraded land fom mining )from Coconut trees he planted . Wontumi in his foolishness insulted the intelligence of the judge and Ghanaians for that matter.What happe ...
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  • hm 5 days ago

    Wontumi is the only one doing Galamsey in Ghana we hear.

  • Peter 5 days ago

    If you have evidence that someone is doing it too, the courts are widely opened.

  • Weely 5 days ago

    Peter, please STOP throwing stones at every rabid dog that barks at you!

  • OSONO 5 days ago

    @hm: TWO WORSE CHARGES ARE BEING TRIED
    Mr. Contributor, this is just comedies to open the stage for the worst cases to follow. Your hmm will soon become tears of blood when Wontumi is jailed for life when judgment in the on ...
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  • 2029 is just around the corner 5 days ago

    This is politics at its worst. How can a country like Ghana be governed by leaders who appear more focused on imprisoning their political opponents than on promoting peace, unity, and national development?
    The NDC government ...
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  • Name 5 days ago

    Such an IDI*T !!

    You mean we should allow others to poison our rivers, destroy our flora and fauna just because we must promote peace? Where can this logic work apart from within your own household and village?

    Meanwhil ...
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  • COMMENT 5 days ago

    1. Question: DID HENRY OKUM DO ANY LAND RECLAMATION?
    ● Answer: YES
    2. QUESTION: DID HENRY OKUM DO THE LAND RECLAMATION?
    Abswer: Yes
    3. DID HENRY ODUM ALSO DO GOLD MINING WHILE DOING THE LAND RECLAMATION?
    ● Answer: Y ...
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  • COMMENT 5 days ago

    1. QUESTION: DID HENRY OKUM DO THE LAND RECLAMATION?
    Abswer: Yes
    2. DID HENRY ODUM ALSO DO GOLD MINING WHILE DOING THE LAND RECLAMATION?
    ● Answer: Yes.
    3. DID HENRY OKUM SHARE HIS GOLD MINING PROCEEDS WITH WONTUMI?
    A ...
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  • Maama Gonja Mafia 5 days ago

    The main objective of P/ NDC is take economic power from the Akans, qoute Kofi Awonor. Are you seeing what we are seeing?

    Gonja mafia john mahama said he will fill the courts with P/NDc judges and he just did that. Hasn't ...
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  • Kofi 5 days ago

    Kate Gyamfua ex General Manager of Xtra Gold should be next on the list

  • Gbetia 5 days ago

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  • Yaw 5 days ago

    another stomach vigilante ! he lost all respect by his actions. trust him at your own peril. Dangerous as a serpent

  • Lin 5 days ago

    I wonder why a few section of Ghanaians are condoning wrongdoings. It is well established that illegal mining has taken place and since Wontumi owns the land for the mining, he cannot escape being guilty.

  • The orangutan state 5 days ago

    What business is that? That a land that contains gold is given to an experi3nce miner to reclaim the land by planting coconuts without money but he I 3xpected to reclaim cost in many years to come after the expected coconut y ...
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  • The orangutan state 5 days ago

    What business is that? That a land that contains gold is given to an experi3nce miner to reclaim the land by planting coconuts without money but he I 3xpected to reclaim cost in many years to come after the expected coconut y ...
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  • The orangutan state 5 days ago

    What business is that? That a land that contains gold is given to an experi3nce miner to reclaim the land by planting coconuts without money but he I 3xpected to reclaim cost in many years to come after the expected coconut y ...
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  • POURFENDEUR DE LA CORRUPTION/ANTI CORRUPTION 5 days ago

    So what happens to Henry Okum who did the actual mining. Is he left free to go? Or is Wuntumi carrying his cross for him? I see political witchunting.

  • Asking_Pls help 5 days ago

    This has always been my question oooooo.

  • Musa 5 days ago

    Apt judgement. The man is just too arrogant and lawless. But my question is why do we fight so hard to gain riches only to end up this way. Or better still knowing how susceptible mankind is to death. Lets draw a lesson from ...
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  • bogass 5 days ago

    With all this illegal mining in this country, how many of them have been jailed? I'm yet to see these Chinese destroying our land to be imprisoned for a long time. Wontumi shouldn't be a scape goat. Real enforcement should be ...
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  • Akajatayogogo 5 days ago

    Azar,are you normal? Read the judgement, and the whole Court procidience, don't come out with false Statements.

  • Godfrey 5 days ago

    This case raises a number of unanswered questions. The most obvious one is: what was the rehabilitation cost that supposedly justified allowing an equivalent value of gold to be mined? There appears to be no public explanatio ...
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  • Omanba 5 days ago

    The question now is why foreigners caught in illegal mining nothing of this sort— sentence happened to them. I hope this is through reflection of what transpired in the said forest but not in case of I will show you where ...
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  • Asking_Pls help 5 days ago

    So, the Henry Okum man, is the country not interested in prosecuting him? Based on his own witness statements, can’t we prosecute him as well? He was an accomplice to wontumi. Anaaa? I lack comprehension.

  • COMMENT 5 days ago

    NDC used him as the prosecution witness against Wontumi. Henry Odum the real galamseyer is free. NDC shall do absolutely nothing to him.

  • Kojo 5 days ago

    So what's happens to Henry Okum who carried out the illegal mining?

  • Of 5 days ago

    What happens to the concession

  • Ernest 5 days ago

    My simple question is what about the chines in the area of galamsey. They did introduce the so call chanfan in this country.we as people should not hang our own and leave those foriegners. I side by the judge if there was no ...
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  • Kwame nkrumah 5 days ago

    So, in Samreboi, there is no single indigene who is capable of holding a major license? Except persons outside of the district? The indigenes should wake up

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  • Major 5 days ago

    Brief and concise write-up to the ordinary person.

  • Billy Bones 5 days ago

    If I am in the government now I will build more prisons ,cos current serving ministers,dces,mmces and other political appointees will be languishing in jail jail sooner or later

  • Drunk pilot 5 days ago

    Well explained, but my question why would the judge give a first time offender more than half of the maximum conviction years.

    At least half or less than half is better.20yrs made the judgement too harsh and excessive.

  • Yaw Mensah 5 days ago

    Dear Azar, if Okum is a small-scale miner knowing mineral regulations and that transfer of one's concession to another needed the Minister of Minerals letter of authorization, why did he not insist getting it before going the ...
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