The Minister of State in charge of Government Communication, Felix Kwakye Ofosu, clashed with renowned broadcaster Paul Adom-Otchere on live TV over the case of the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Bernard Antwi Boasiako, widely known as Chairman Wontumi.
Speaking on Metro TV’s Good Morning Ghana programme on Friday, October 10, 2025, Kwakye Ofosu claimed that the erstwhile Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo government deliberately ignored a report by the Criminal Investigative Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service on Wontumi’s illegal mining activities, for which he is being prosecuted today.
He alleged that the then-Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Godfred Dame, knew about the report but decided to do nothing.
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“President Akufo-Addo was not willing to punish anybody for anything that he did under his government. So you pass an LI, abuse it, award mining leases to party boys. They engage in illegal mining. The CID investigates, and then you come on national television and say that the person who has been fingered in that CID report is innocent, and do nothing,” he said.
Adom-Otchere did not even allow Kwakye Ofosu to land and began questioning him about the CID report he was referencing, asserting that there was no CID report on Wontumi during the Akufo-Addo era.
But the minister of state insisted that there was a report, which Dame knew about but elected not to act on, adding that the current Attorney General, Dr Dominic Ayine, has used that same report to file charges against the NPP Ashanti Regional Chairman.
But Paul also insisted that there was no report, challenging Kwakye Ofosu to make the report public.
According to him, he had spoken to Dame, who told him he “did not know about the report.”
The minister then retorted, saying that if the former AG did not know about the report, then it means he was incompetent. He, however, maintained that Dame knew about the report.
The broadcaster returned to say that several security agencies, including the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO), could have investigated the allegation against Wontumi during the Akufo-Addo era.
“How do you know CID was working on it? It could have been EOCO, it could have been CID. He is not providing evidence for that; he is not able to,” said Adom-Otchere fumed.
Watch a video of the clash below:
Senior JANDAM killer @FelixKwakyeOfo1 killing JANDAM from Paul Adom Otchere.#JandamEgu pic.twitter.com/BOkyxKBqiK
— Aristotlektv (@aristotledada) October 10, 2025
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