Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Bernard Antwi Boasiako, popularly known as Chairman Wontumi, will spend the night in police custody.
This was after failing to meet a ₵25 million bail imposed in two separate cases before the Criminal Division of the High Court in Accra.
The embattled politician, who has been placed on a stop list and barred from traveling abroad, faces a series of illegal mining-related charges, including allegations that his company destroyed 13 hectares of land in the Tano Nimire Forest Reserve.
This forms part of a second criminal case filed against him, in which Wontumi and others are accused of undertaking mining operations without a licence, felling trees, and erecting structures within a forest reserve.
In an earlier case, also linked to illegal mining, he is accused of assigning mineral rights without approval and facilitating unlicensed mining activities.
Chairman Wontumi has pleaded not guilty to all the charges.
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