{"id":224710,"date":"2026-02-22T13:06:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T11:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-acquit-discharge-our-client-lawyers-for-bernard-antwi-boasiako-ask-high-court\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T13:06:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T11:06:16","slug":"ghana-acquit-discharge-our-client-lawyers-for-bernard-antwi-boasiako-ask-high-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-acquit-discharge-our-client-lawyers-for-bernard-antwi-boasiako-ask-high-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Acquit, Discharge Our Client &#8230;Lawyers for Bernard Antwi Boasiako Ask High Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">LAWYERS for Bernard Antwi Boasiako, the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), are asking the High Court in Accra to acquit and discharge the accused because the prosecution failed to prove the charges filed against him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Mr Boasiako is standing trial for allegedly facilitating illegal mining operation on his Samreboi concession in the Western Region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Lead counsel, Andy Appiah Kubi, in his submission of no case to answer argues that the prosecution manifestly failed to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602200441.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAWYERS for Bernard Antwi Boasiako, the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), are asking the High Court in Accra to acquit and discharge the accused because the prosecution failed to prove the charges filed against him. Mr Boasiako is standing trial for allegedly facilitating illegal mining operation on his Samreboi concession in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":224711,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[53733,258,256,35504,29343,53734,36098,6185,13241,4508,4509,6184,8569,257,254],"class_list":["post-224710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-acquit","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-antwi","tag-bernard","tag-boasiako","tag-client","tag-court","tag-discharge","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-high","tag-lawyers","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}