Big Stone Mining Saga: Gold, Other Items ‘Stolen’, Management Threatens Court Action
It has emerged that a number of items including 3 kg of gold have been stolen from the Big Stone Mining Company Limited, the wholly-owned Chinese company operating at Bogoso in the Western Region, which a group of policemen took over.
Other items stolen are 2 big Compassion Guns; 2 small Compassion Guns; 20 packets Motor-Roller; one Pick-Up vehicle with registration number GW 6980-16; 2 Laptop Computers; cash of GH₵3,500.00 and a bank ID card belonging to the General Manager of the company; Laboratory Manager’s personal cash of GH₵3,500.00 plus his China Bank Book and Ghana Card; the cash of GH₵7,233.00 left in the Accountant’s office; One Security Scan machine.
Besides, the illegal occupants attempted to break into the leading operational mining equipment but failed.
Legal action
Following the development, the management of the Company signalled its resolve to institute court action against the police and one Wan Shanghong, the Chinese national under whose influence the police allegedly kept their presence at the factory
Background
It would be recalled that the Ghana Chinese Chamber of Commerce has expressed concern about the occupation of the Big Stone Mining Company Limited, a wholly-owned Chinese company by a group of policemen.
The Chamber, in a statement to the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, described the takeover as shocking.
The Police Headquarters, per a wireless message, signed by the Director General, Police Legal and Prosecutions, Commissioner of Police (COP) Nathan Kofi Boakye, directed the Western Regional Police Command on September 1, 2022, to withdraw the men at the factory but the directive.
On August 21, 2022, the Attorney General, in a letter to the IGP titled, “ Re-Petition for Redress in the Matter of Wan Shanghong, alias Magee Yang Liu vrs Big Stone Mining Limited and 6 others”, also stated that the office had received a request for the police to stop the continuous abuse of the rights of the petitioners in the shareholding matter involving the company.
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