{"id":11168,"date":"2025-05-27T18:40:38","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T18:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=11168"},"modified":"2025-05-27T18:40:38","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T18:40:38","slug":"wontumi-picked-up-by-eoco-on-his-way-from-cid-interrogation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=11168","title":{"rendered":"Wontumi picked up by EOCO on his way from CID interrogation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Patriotic Party (NPP) Ashanti Regional Chairman, Bernard Antwi-Boasiako, popularly known as &#8220;Wontumi,&#8221; has been arrested by officials from the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO).<\/p>\n<p>This came shortly after leaving the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) headquarters in Accra.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Chairman Wontumi had been at the CID headquarters for further questioning over his alleged involvement in illegal mining and mining in forest reserves, and entering the forest reserve without authorisation.<\/p>\n<p>He was directed to reappear after he turned himself in yesterday as part of his bail conditions, and he complied.<\/p>\n<p>However, EOCO operatives intercepted him upon his exit on Tuesday, May 27.<\/p>\n<p>The exact reasons for his arrest remain unclear.<\/p>\n<p>EOCO has yet to issue an official statement on the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Patriotic Party (NPP) Ashanti Regional Chairman, Bernard Antwi-Boasiako, popularly known as &#8220;Wontumi,&#8221; has been arrested by officials from the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO). This came shortly after leaving the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) headquarters in Accra. &nbsp; Chairman Wontumi had been at the CID headquarters for further questioning over his alleged involvement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123457,"featured_media":11169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3507],"tags":[3570,1349],"class_list":["post-11168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","tag-bernard-antwi-boasiako","tag-eoco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/123457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11170,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11168\/revisions\/11170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}