{"id":211383,"date":"2016-05-04T10:11:15","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T10:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=211383"},"modified":"2016-05-04T10:11:15","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T10:11:15","slug":"manhyia-north-mp-withdraws-case-against-chairman-wontumi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=211383","title":{"rendered":"Manhyia North MP withdraws case against Chairman Wontumi"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Member of Parliament for the Manhyia North Constituency, Collins Owusu Amankwa, has written to the court asking\u00a0them to drop all charges brought against the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Ashanti Regional Chairman, Bernard Antwi Boasiako, also known as Chairman Wontumi.<\/p>\n

In a letter written\u00a0by counsel for the Manhyia North MP and their other client in the case, Felix Ibrahim, they indicated that their clients now intend to pursue an out of court settlement.<\/p>\n

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Chairman Wontumi is in the grips of the Ashanti Regional Police Command for allegedly assaulting Collins Amankwah and his Constituency Secretary.<\/p>\n

The NPP Regional Chairman turned himself in to the Police on Tuesday after he was declared wanted<\/a><\/strong><\/span> by police following\u00a0allegations of assault leveled against him by Mr. Amankwah and Mr. Ibrahim.<\/p>\n

He was arraigned today before the Asokwa Magistrate court where he is reported to have pleaded not guilty to the charges.<\/p>\n

Wontumi\u2019s arrest politically motivated <\/strong><\/p>\n

Some angry NPP supporters subsequently besieged the police command<\/a><\/strong><\/span> demanding NPP Chairman\u2019s release alleging that the arrested may have been orchestrated by President Mahama.<\/p>\n

Although Chairman Wontumi\u2019s arrest involved an altercation with NPP members, the NPP also said his arrest was a ploy by political opponents.<\/p>\n

They feel strings are being pulled by the NDC to have Chairman Wontumi behind bars so they can bend the rules\u00a0in the ongoing limited voters\u2019 registration exercise.<\/p>\n

In a statement<\/a><\/strong><\/span> signed by the party\u2019s Ashanti Regional Secretary, Samuel Pyne, the NPP said the arrest of Chairman Wontumi\u00a0was \u201ca clear distraction move by the NDC to make gains in the limited registration exercise.\u201d<\/p>\n

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By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Member of Parliament for the Manhyia North Constituency, Collins Owusu Amankwa, has written to the court asking\u00a0them to drop all charges brought against the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Ashanti Regional Chairman, Bernard Antwi Boasiako, also known as Chairman Wontumi. In a letter written\u00a0by counsel for the Manhyia North MP and their other client in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":211392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slider-1","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=211383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/211392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=211383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=211383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=211383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}