The Ashanti regional Police command and Regional minister have been ordered by a Kumasi High Court to release seized equipment belonging to business mogul Ibrahim Mahama’s mining firm, Exton Cubic.
The Ashanti Regional Minister who ordered for the seizure of the equipment belonging to Exton Cubic in August 2017 for allegedly prospecting for bauxite without a permit has been asked by the court to return them immediately.
In February this year, an Accra High Court presided by Justice Ackah Boafo quashed the decision by the lands and natural resources ministry to revoke the mining license of Exton Cubic Group Limited, owned by Ibrahim Mahama.
Exton Cubic Group Limited went to court to reverse the revocation of its license by the sector ministry through a judicial review.
” Overall, I am satisfied that the applicant has succeeded in making a case which calls into question the letter authorised by the minister for Lands and natural resources on September 4,2017 and for the letter to be brought into this court to be quashed and it is hereby quashed accordingly,” the judge ruled in his judgment today, Thursday February 8,2017.
Following the ruling, the Ashanti regional minister Simon Osei-Mensah directed the regional police command to release the impounded equipment of Exton Cubic Group Limited.
The directive was based on an advice from the Attorney General and Minister of Justice after the company had won their case in court over the revocation of its mining license.
But almost a month after the directive by the Minister, the equipment are yet to be released to the company.
Source: ghanaguardian.com
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THIS NOT ABOUT EXECUTIVE ISSUE, SIMON OSEI/PETER AMEWU CAN NEVER REVOKE THE BUSINESS MAN'S LICENSE THEY JUST DON'T HAVE ANY RIGHT TO STOP THIS GUYS BUT USING THEIR POLITICAL POWERS FROM AKUFO ADDO IT WILL NOT WORK FOR THEM NOW THE COURT SPOKE. THEY WILL NOT BE IN POWER FOREVER.THEY SHOULD ALSO REMEMBER THE MEASUREMENT THEY ARE USING TODAY WILL BE USED ON THEM ONE DAY.
IS THE LAW BEGINNING TO TAKE SHAPE OR WORK IN GHANA AS IT IS SUPPOSED TO BE? DID I HEAR SOMEBODY SAY YES? I LIKE THAT. MY CONFIDENCE IN THE COURTS/JUDICIARY FOR THE SECOND TIME THIS YEAR ALONE HAS BEEN BOOSTED. I HOPE, JUST AS THE HIGH COURTS ARE BEGINNING TO PERFORM AS EXPECTED OF THE COURTS/JUDICIARY THE SUPREME COURT WOULD FOLLOW SUIT ON SIMILAR ISSUES EVEN IF IT COMES TO ELECTION PETITION COME 2020. NANA ADDO, MAINTAIN THE TEMPO AND NOT BE CARRIED AWAY BY THE PROPAGANDA FROM YOUR CAMP AS YOUR PARTY'S PREDECESSOR JOHN AGYEKUM KUFFUOR DID DURING HIS REIGN. I HOPE YOU LEAVE A LEGACY THAT WHEN YOU WERE IN POWER THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM WAS FULLY TRANSFORMED AND VERY NEUTRAL FROM EXECUTIVE INFLUENCE. BY THIS, ANYTIME ANY NDC MEMEBER OR ANYBODY FROM YOUR GOVERNMENT IS PROSECUTED AND POSSIBLY JAILED THEN THE TRUST WILL BE THERE THAT THE PERSON DESERVED THE VERDICT PASSED AND NOT BECAUSE OF EXECUTIVE (PRESIDENTIAL INFLUENCE. FOWARD MATCH! LEFT, RIGHT, LEFT RIGHT! NO ABO-UT TURN!