Lawyer for Bernard Antwi Boasiako, Andy Kwame Appiah-Kubi, has expressed disappointment in the Attorney General’s decision to drop charges against the General Manager of Akonta Mining.

The AG’s decision came after Edward Akuoko, the former fourth accused person, offered to testify against the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Chairman Wontumi.

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Edward Akuoko, together with Wontumi, had been facing multiple charges, including undertaking a mining operation without a license and felling or abetting the felling of trees in a forest reserve without written authorisation.

Reacting to the development in an interview with TV3 on November 4, 2025, Appiah-Kubi said that Dr Ayine’s actions suggest an intention to undermine justice.

Appiah-Kubi questioned why the Attorney General would rely on the statement of the former accused person to prosecute others, and vowed to resist such attempts, which he described as 'oppressors rule.’

“… If the Attorney General, with all the materials and all the resources available to him, including human personnel, is just for him to only rely on the former accused person to prosecute a matter against one of the accused persons or some of the accused persons, and he thinks that justice may not be undermined, that is his decision.

“I would have thought that his role as Minister of Justice would have persuaded him at all times to be careful that freedom and justice of the moment be served also on all the accused persons until they are proven guilty. The way that the Attorney General appears to be poaching his own accused persons suggests that there is an intent to undermine the cause of justice. We will resist the oppressor’s rule,” he said.

Appiah-Kubi, the former Member of Parliament for Asante Akim North, added that they have formally been served with a notice from the AG to withdraw charges against Edward Akuoko and will act accordingly.

He maintained his clients' innocence, insisting that they are not guilty.

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“We have just been served with the notice of withdrawal of the fourth accused person, so they have come under the rules of court and have every right to do so. We are going to prepare our case when they are ready. It doesn't change our position. We have still pleaded not guilty, and we will come to prosecute the case religiously in the best of our professional expertise,” he added.



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