Wontumi’s Chelsea Purchase Brag Opens Can Of Investigable Corruption

Bernard Antwi Boasiako, the semi-literate Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has become the focus of some international sports websites after his grandiloquent announcement of intent to buy Chelsea football club for US$3.1billion.

Boasiako, popularly called Wontumi made the announcement in the wake of the sanctioning of Roman Abramovic, the Russian billionaire owner of Chelsea in the UK after Russia invaded Ukraine.

Among the websites that have given the man popularly called Wontumi attention are The Sun and ASports Brief.

The two outlets have described Wontumi as a politician, miner and mining guru among others.

However, even though back home many have brushed Wontumi’s supposed intent to bid for Roman Abramovic’s Chelsea as a joke, the reports by the international websites have revealed that the NPP politician is worth some £76million.

As the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the NPP, Wontumi is a politically exposed man who has been getting juicy contracts from his party’s government, the revelation that he has some £76million sitting in his account gives cause for an investigation into his activities.

Also, critics suggest that if Wontumi indeed has access to the over £3.5 billion asking price for Chelsea when his government is desperately seeking some GHC 6 billion (less than £0.7 billion) from an unpopular e-levy to be able to undertake social infrastructural projects, then Wontumi has his priorities wrong and must be questioned for the source of his wealth.

Apart from politics Wontumi is also cited in several illegal mining activities and owns a mining company called Hansol Mining.

He has recently also built radio and TV stations to propagate propaganda for his party.

Last year, when he started early preparation for a re-election bid, allegations emerged that the jubilee House often sends money to him for distribution to party members at the grassroots but that Wontumi often sits on the money.