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To whether or not the essential ingredients of the offense had been proved in, in the, in the trial.

Again, both are appealable, are grounds for appeal.

Both.

So the, the noise that greeted the conviction of Wontumi and the indecent or indecent attempt to make it political is what I simply do not understand because you know that there are remedies.

And [coughs]-

In very plain terms-

Yes

...

the term political prisoner does not apply at all.

At all.

Do you think that the press conference that was held that used political prisoner and the subsequent one, by that time they had not read the judgment yet? Is that what you think?

Well, it could be so, because the judgment was, you know, w- 59 pages.

Yes, but that's not too much.

[laughs] Yes, that's not too much.

Yeah.

But the, the press conference followed immediately on the heels-

That's right

... of the judgment, of the conviction.

Yeah.

And I, I don't know who would have read 59 pages to go and sit down and draft a press statement.

Mm-hmm.

And then they pick portions.

Say, ooh, Wontumi had a lawful concession.

And as a former Lands and Natural Resource minister, let me state that when a license is given to a person for the exploitation of natural resources-

Mm