EOCO Officers Reportedly Search Wontumi's Tema Home, Spokesperson Says

Five officers of the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) are reported to have searched the Tema home of Bernard Antwi Boasiako, the former Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), who is widely known as Chairman Wontumi.

The alleged search happened on Monday, November 9, 2026, while his children were in the house, according to his spokesperson, Palgrave Boakye Danquah. He gave an account of the incident during an interview on Eyewitness News, as first reported by Citi News.

Mr Danquah said the family phoned him at around 3 p.m. to tell him the officers had arrived at the property.

He explained that Wontumi's mother-in-law, who was looking after the children, was alerted to the officers and went to the gate. She let them into the compound after they asked to come in, he said.

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The spokesperson alleged that the officers then walked around the property and made their way upstairs to where the children were.

"They went around the compound and entered into the premises of the house, where the children were chilling with their apparel and started crying," he said.

Mr Danquah further alleged that the officers recorded photographs and videos while inside. He said the children's grandmother asked them not to film or photograph her or the children.

According to the spokesperson, the officers remained at the house for 30 to 45 minutes. He said the grandmother photographed an identification card shown by one of them.

He named one of the officers as a person called Nortey, who he said came with four others. The officers were in plain clothes and told the family they had "direct instructions to come to the house", Mr Danquah said.

He added that he had alerted Wontumi's lead lawyer, Atta Akyea, who was in contact with the Attorney-General to find out why the officers had visited.

Mr Danquah also pointed to existing legal proceedings involving EOCO. He said the agency had earlier served papers on Wontumi's lawyers relating to a bid to confiscate his belongings.

He said, however, that he was not sure those papers gave the officers authority to search the home.

"I've read through the document. It doesn't authorise them yet," he said.

At the time of the interview, EOCO had not offered an official explanation for the reported operation.

Wontumi is the subject of investigations over suspected financial and economic crimes. It remains unclear what Monday's search was meant to achieve and whether anything was taken from the house.