“I keep getting a lot of questions about what it means that Wontumi’s lawyers have been asked to file a submission of no case. Wontumi's lawyer explains why his release has been delayedBarker-Vormawor explained that under Ghana’s criminal justice system, an accused person is presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond reasonable doubt. However, before doing so, the defence is allowed by law to file a ‘submission of no case’. “I have an actual case where the accused person spent seven years in prison even though the person died from pneumonia, and not anything the accused had done,” Barker-Vormawor disclosed. “Or that even if it was illegal, the prosecution failed to show that I have anything to do with Akonta Mining,” he added.

Source: GhanaWeb February 05, 2026 15:30 UTC