Outside Influence to Jail Him, No Time to Breathe: Wontumi's lawyer speaks

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  • ROCKIA 1 day ago

    Why do these ignorant Nkwasiasem Party People never ever talk sense? Your man is in deep shit and you know it. So stop trying to blame outside influence!

  • TAKE OR PAY DEMON 1 day ago

    Yes, Mahama is using the court system to fightthose who called his father a thief. Those tarveted are Abronye and Wontumi.

  • Togbe Kporwomordzikpo KpornugloAvumako 1 day ago

    Running to GBA? We do that as kids sometimes. You have a fight or argument with someone stronger than you and quickly run to your father

  • NMG 1 day ago

    Chale me a dey run straight to my uncle lol come beat me lol he go lash you waaaaaaaaaaaaaa reminds me back in the days when i was 4 to 5 yrs old

  • Appiah Kubi Senseless Nonsense 1 day ago

    You reference this as 'high-profile' case? A clear bufoon felony by a common criminal like Wontumi? Npp, your household loot money Populist Paylist agenda, used as stipend to Break-the-8, has backfired with bad-beans flatule ...
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  • Appiah Kubi Senseless Nonsense 1 day ago

    *~~ has backfired with rotten-beans flatulence! Hwum!! Nose masks required!!!

  • Gonja Mafia 1 day ago

    You see how foolish you're, because is not you or somebody close you did not even read the passage but comment on it foolishly. You're a FOOL!!!

  • On your mark 1 day ago

    Rocking you a fool in fact a fool conceived in a cocoa sack and reared in a trail, idiotic fool.

  • Kweku Gyan 1 day ago

    Lawyer Andy emotional blackmailing won’t work. A lawyer who asked for prayers in court yard for his client knew that his client stand no chance of winning the case. The evidence is clear for all to see. How do you sub contr ...
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  • Kk. 1 day ago

    Is he the only person destroying the land....God will judge faithfully

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  • Cat 1 day ago

    My friend u shouldn't have represent him in the first place. I think is part one of the risk in the line of duty.......I am also happy that u are withdrawing to allow another lawer to continue from where u left.

  • Frank Agyena-Karikari. 1 day ago

    Hmmmm. Ei, Hmmm. No position is permanent. Is this the brave and bold talking Wontumi who is now cowardly quite? Where is his bravery and arrogance? Hahahaha. Is Ken Agyapong. Okudzeto Ablakwa and the other NDC babies with Sh ...
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  • Lawratu 1 day ago

    I will tell him. That this is what a certain idiot called Frank Agyena-Karikari is saying. And you will see

  • AWOTSE KANKPE 1 day ago

    Lawyer Appiah Kubi, you know when Sir John was alive he used to say" LONG TALK WILL NEVER BUY YOU A HORSE ". You know very well your client Wontumi has one leg already in the cooler and that is why when you made a submission ...
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  • Menp3 meho as3m 1 day ago

    Akuano aka asɛm wɔse sɛ woyɛme bɔne a mɛyɛwobi. Wontumi was the brain behind his exit from the Parliament and now he also got the opportunity to pay him back. Asɛm no ayɛ kritika.

  • Nobody knows Tomorrow 1 day ago

    Now you people are afraid of your shadow
    This exactly what Npp were doing in government.
    They were influencing judgement so this man is afraid that the same thing will happen to his client.
    He was even complaining of spee ...
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  • Sense 1 day ago

    This is a shame the lawyer is aware that his client will loose the case and that’s the reason why he is withdrawing, why didn’t he withdraw while the case was going on? The judge will pronounce his judgement on 7/3/26 no ...
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  • Concerned Ghanaian Citizen 1 day ago

    Apiah Kubi, why did you go forward to defend a criminal like Wontumi in the first place? It all stems from greediness thinking you can take advantage and make some money out of him. Quoting J.J. Rawlings of blessed memory "Gr ...
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  • Frank Agyena-Karikari. 1 day ago

    Even the Developed and rich Western countries don’t give things free like that. In Under Sam’s country, when you get water from a company’s vending machine, you pay for it and pay tax on the water too.
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  • OGyam 1 day ago

    This how it works in other serious countries.


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  • What a disaster of legal advisor 1 day ago

    Mention the names

  • Danny 1 day ago

    Lawyer Maurice Ampaw should take over from Appiah Kubi for the defense of Chairman Wontumi.

  • ROCKIA 1 day ago

    Ha ha ha. From the frying into the towering inferno?

  • TOO MUCH POLITICISED - Ghanani. 1 day ago

    Not a supporter of Wontumi but i hope that the court will let true justice prevail.
    Wontumi's case has been politicised and it is just too bad.
    Politics should not be used to influence court decisions.

  • Bernado 1 day ago

    @ Ghanani: Say precisely how Wontumi's case has been politicized. This Wontumi guy is an uncouth criminal and you have the effrontery to utter this nonsense?

  • Samwise 1 day ago

    He knows from beginning that he can't win, but he kept on to chop nokofioo, but wontumi is stingy because he knows at all cost he will be jailed.

  • Man 1 day ago

    Stupid lawyer, do you think your stupid tactics will work?

  • Pressman 1 day ago

    Why the verdict to be rendered on July 3rd 2026, which is Friday.
    We believe ulterior motive is the cause of choosing Friday as the day to read the verdict.
    Knowing very well that Saturdays and Sundays are weekends so that ...
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  • Nana 1 day ago

    Mass u knew you lost the case and you don't want that on your profile

  • LONGJOHN 1 day ago

    LAWYER APPIAH KUBI I RESPECT YOU VERY MUCH AS A LAWYER AND SOMEONE WHO KNOWS HOW TO CALM DOWN WATERS WHEN IT'S NECESSARY BUT YOU ARE WRONG THIS TIME REMEMBER WHAT WAS WRONG YESTERDAY THAT NONE OF YOU CONDEMNED AS LAWYERS IS G ...
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  • Shithole 1 day ago

    This guy should stop insulting our intelligence...we're we not here in this country and actually witness what happened..is not this wontumi who showcase gold bars on television to boost about

  • No time 1 day ago

    Jail him for justice to prevail, people steal plantain and they are jailed without mercy,extend the same to Wontumi to serve as deferent for others...

  • Blajil vs Moloco 1 day ago

    The animal jailed himself long ago, outside influence no even get time sef. Horseshit

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  • Charles Acheampong 1 day ago

    Lawyer Appiah Kubi was once my respected lawyer until now that he says he believes the judgement awaiting notorious Wontumi is being influenced from outside- what! Lawyer, you should have known that your client has a bad cas ...
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  • Charles 1 day ago

    I thought this lawyer have some integrity, but he is following money to soil his image. The law is still the law.

  • Donald T 1 day ago

    This case has taken too long. The Guy Wontumi should not only be jailed but his assets sold to defray whatever he has stolen. Theives !!

  • Akonta 1 day ago

    How about trial by jury and judge this will help deal with bias’s

  • Daakyehene 1 day ago

    Did your government telecast Sedinam Tamaklo's trial?
    You can't defend a perpetual criminal

  • Gra 1 day ago

    Rubbish. U think this your last strategy will Work.. U lie bad. Emotional blackmail, we know all is settings. U can't eat a chunk of the national cake alone and go Scot free. U must be held accountable. What outside pressure. ...
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  • Gra 1 day ago

    Rubbish. U think this your last strategy will Work.. U lie bad. Emotional blackmail, we know all is settings. U can't eat a chunk of the national cake alone and go Scot free. U must be held accountable. What outside pressure. ...
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  • Lawyer Atta Akyea 1 day ago

    Appiah Kubi is a foolish and incompetent lawyer and a mole. Why did Wontumi hire this fool as his lawyer instead of me

  • Kofi Acquah 1 day ago

    Tweeeeaa kai! Is he going to Petition the Joe Ghartey's wife GBA?
    H e better pettition Torkonoo,Godfred Dame and Nana Addo..
    They're now seeing their emptiness and smoothness level.

  • Esa 1 day ago

    Basically no fair trial
    Reminiscing of the PNDC era. That brought Ofosu Kwakye, Zenator Rawlings, Beatrice Gambrah, Hannah bissiw etc to fame. No work done whatsoever.

  • Kwame 1 day ago

    Excuse me. That is an insult to judges. Judges judge in accordance with the evidence before them, so cannot be influenced by what people say in public.
    Whiles I was a civil servant a worker came and made a compliant to me a ...
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  • Kk. 1 day ago

    Can Ghana say Wontumi is the only galamseyer....? May the heavens judge

  • Osei Tutu 1 day ago

    And can an idiot like you and your father say Sedinam is the only person facing bias judgement? Kwasea. Wo maame twe

  • Samira Bawumia 1 day ago

    Everybody in Ghana knows what Chairman Wontomi did. Once upon a time,the was going around displaying gold bars. Akufo Addo admitted Wontomi was engaged in illegal mining when he said "Akonta mines is not doing galamsey, AS WE ...
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  • Kwame Peter 1 day ago

    Former CJ Her Ladyship Torkonoo,had her hands tied behind her back and indicted by a kangaroo committee with her own SC judges presiding and removed on spurious accusations that will not hold water in any civilised country,he ...
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  • Of 1 day ago

    Let the laws work.lawyers have right to continue a case or withdraw,why all these comments. The lawyer should not have come to the media at all

  • Benjilo 1 day ago

    When it is about npp criminals and that tribe, then there is 'outside influence...' but when it is others, it is rule of law. Only the stupid will think everyone else except them is stupid. You can go to ecowas court and icc ...
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  • obaapatanpa 1 day ago

    Maasa, do you think your client behaved well? How can one greedy bushman steal from the country in broad daylight, and you talk about outside influence? We will not allow you to use your law law to free him. We, the ordinary ...
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  • Sika mpe dede 1 day ago

    Appiah Kubi, you just want to stimulate your illiterate client. He denied you your second chance as an mp and you know very well that he has no case yet you tried to use legal gymnastics to prolong the case.
    Shame on you, wh ...
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  • Ras Bangi 1 day ago

    WHY COMMIT CRIME IN THE FIRST PLACE??
    WHY STEAL GHANA MONEY AND WE INNOCENT PEOPLE SUFFER AND PAY TAXES TO RETIRE DEBTS.
    EVERY POLITICIAN WHO STEALS MUST GO TO JAIL. NDC SHOULD JAIL NPP THIEVES AND VICE VERSA.
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  • Mac 1 day ago

    I have lost all respect for this man that i used to hold in high esteem as one of the level headed fellows in the NPP

  • Keane 1 day ago

    You’re a sh@t lawyer . Your client is a 100% crook ….yiu are just crying as no one took your attempted bribes

  • OSAFO KANTANKA 1 day ago

    Come on !! Lawyer , don’t be Silly!!! Is this lawyer suggesting that our courts and judges are incompetent and judgements are given by public opinion? This is the worst statement from a lawyer.

  • Kj 1 day ago

    Once tit for tat is still alive, the same outside influences will determine who to be jailed during the next term of the NPP.
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  • Amoasi 1 day ago

    Unfortunately, you will be dead much earlier to see this happening. More grease to your pain in opposition

  • Bonus Baba 1 day ago

    Please look at the stupid Lawyers head and compare that to DUMBNESS.
    I NEVER THOUGH WE HAD SO MANY IDIOT SERVING AS LAWYERS WHEN THEY ARE IN FACT LAZY BUTT INCOMPETENT CROOKS EXTORTING CITIZENS .
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  • Yaw 1 day ago

    a court of competent jurisdiction and the CJ as a whole ought to be worried when a lawyer withdraws representation on issues raised by Lawyer Appiah Kubi. The court must proceed when a person before it is not properly represe ...
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  • Hendrix 1 day ago

    Outside influence? Woaa look.This knows Wontumi is a criminal and will surely go to jail. It's the same lawyer who refused to mention an alleged bribery in parliament. Honesty is the best policy.

  • Mercy 1 day ago

    You see, trying to win public sympathy. Go and ask Kuffour, and he would tell you what he did to Tsikata.

  • Paapa 1 day ago

    Is the trial being done in-camera?

  • kwame 1 day ago

    This is unfortunate coming from a Lawyer. Is Wontumi different from others. If you actually have evidence of outside influence why not let us know. That is the only way you can ensure justice. Otherwise, keep your peace.

  • The orangutan state 1 day ago

    He is crying for his money when he wins.

  • Hanson K.K 1 day ago

    Appiah, you haven't said anything convincing to me personally.
    What has the judge done to you in this that shows that outsiders are influencing him on this Wontumi case.?
    Wontumi has personally portray himself far above th ...
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  • PAPASI 1 day ago

    Just listen to the name KOKOVU TAY, a ewe AYIGBE T Togolese??? There’ll be justice for her in 2029 when NPP returns to power

  • Kumkum Baghya 1 day ago

    Wo maame tw3 Sumankwaahene! You will die on the 8th of December 2028, when you hear your party being announced to have scored another 28.2%. Gyimifuor ba, when is Bawumia going to bury Kecks Osei, his office staff that they h ...
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  • Oklemekuku¹ 1 day ago

    Lawyers know the law whiles NPP Lawyers know the judge.

  • Oman Ba 1 day ago

    The NDC is finding all means to jail him. The key question to consider is: what role did the bank play, what was the verification process, and did the bank check the documents he submitted or conduct any security checks on th ...
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  • Kumkum Baghya 1 day ago

    @Oman ba. Wo maame tw3 kankaen s3 yemu ade3wati. Your wee-choked brain still cannot get it that Wontumi himself has already admitted his guilt even before the judgment would be read on 3rd July. Tell me now..... are you going ...
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  • JULOR CAESAR 18 hours ago

    This lawyer senses that his client is about to be convicted, and he's doing all he can to cast a dark image on the proceedings in other justify his reason for wanting to resign as counsel for Wontumi. If you feel outside infl ...
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