National Communications Officer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) is happy that finally the 'actual' reason for setting up a committee to help stop illegal mining in the country has been exposed.
According to him, on the surface, 'the committee' (Inter-Ministerial Committee) was to fight galamsey; as it is locally called but behind the scenes, it was just 'handed over to party members' to engage in and share the profits.
"We have been saying this for a long time but...now you have been exposed. The so-called fight against galamsey was a sham;419…the secret is out and we now know the galamsey campaign was for the NPP to take over the galamsey business and make money for themselves…" he claimed on Peace FM’s morning show 'Kokrokoo'.
He was reacting to a recently leaked video where the Minister of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation, Prof. Kwabena Frimpong Boateng and Central Regional Vice-Chairman of the NPP, Horace Ekow Ewusi were reportedly making some damning statements.
Watch his submission in the video below
Background
This leaked video comes weeks after reports emerged that about 500 excavators are missing after they were seized by the Operation Vanguard; an operational team made up of various security personnel purposely set up to clamp down on illegal mining.
Prof Frimpong Boateng who is also the Chairperson of the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining (IMCIM), disclosed that most of the excavators that were seized from illegal miners had vanished.
He subsequently issued a letter directing the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to arrest and interrogate Ekow Ewusi after learning that he reportedly sold some of the confiscated items from illegal miners.
Source: Peacefmonline.com
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These people should be arrested like coup plotters. It looks more or less they planned to overthrow our president. So the video should be used to jail them without taking any lawyer for them.
ofuiiii those behind this cr1minal act has been arrested by the police, would your ***barred word*** had the balls to call for the arrest of his party guys, ediot that is the mark of a person who is passionate about fighting corruption
ah is it true that the embrayer jet also did not come to Ghana? heh ndc is a criminal enterprise
The Liberal Party of Ghana (LPG) has challenged former President John Dramani Mahama to tell Ghanaians what he knows about the Airbus bribery saga. It said a statement from the former President would put to rest any speculations and also clear him and the country of any blame or suspicion. GO1 “From 2009 to 2016, the NDC was in charge of this country. Whatever happened between that time, they are responsible. We want the former President to tell everybody who the Government Official 1 is”, the leader of the party, Mr Kofi Akpaloo, said at a press conference in Accra today. “Now when you mention Ghana anywhere around the world, people associate it with bribery and corruption. Former President Mahama needs to help us fight it by addressing this issue,” he added. According to him, the €35 million involved in the purchase of the aircraft as at that time was equivalent to $40 million and asked, “why should we spend $40million to buy an aircraft that was selling at $25 million?” He advised that the best thing the country had to do was to retrieve the extra $15 million on each aircraft. Background Airbus, the European aircraft manufacturer, is alleged to have paid bribes in Ghana when it sold the three military aircraft to the country. The company admitted hiring the brother of a top elected Ghanaian official as its consultant in the sale of the aircraft. Also, Airbus confessed paying the said consultant through a third party when its Compliance Unit raised red flags about the close relationship between the consultant and the top elected official who was a key decision maker in the purchase of the military aircraft. Response from the NDC But, in a riposte, a statement signed by a former Attorney-General and Minister of Justice in the immediate past NDC administration, Mrs Marietta Brew Appiah-Oppong, said the reports alleging that Airbus SE paid bribes during the administration of President John Evans Atta Mills and John Mahama were “false, misleading and do not reflect the approved judgement” by the UK court.