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A broadcast journalist with Accra-based Asempa FM, Omanhene Kwabena Asante, has revealed that some officials at the Jubilee House are bent on tarnishing the name and office of the Attorney General in a matter involving the shareholding of Big Stone Mining Company Limited, a wholly-owned Chinese company operating at Bogoso in the Western Region.
 
A group of policemen occupied the factory recently, but upon a petition from the Ghana Chinese Chamber of Commerce to the Attorney General’s office on the illegal occupation, the Attorney General wrote to the Police Administration to withdraw the men.
 
The Attorney General’s position was that the occupation would undermine the prosecutorial powers of the Attorney General in the criminal matter it is handling, and also the occupation has the potential to unnecessary bring the police service into disrepute.
 
The Attorney General warned that failure by the IGP to withdraw the police from the mining site could lead to legal action against the state, which carried potential financial loss to the state.
 
Foul moves
 
Commenting on the case on Asempa FM’s Ekosiisen afternoon socio/political show on Wednesday, September 7, 2020, hosted by Osei Bonsu popularly known as OB, co-presenter, Omanhene Kwabena Asante mentioned that some persons from the Jubilee House had wanted him to use the radio show to tarnish the image of the Attorney General.
 
He did not mention the names of those two personalities but gave clues to their identities using what he called ‘codes’.
 
 “They understand because they called me,” he stated.
 
Own people
 
“Those who are bent on tarnishing the image of the Attorney General are his own people at the Jubilee House.
 
“It’s a warning to them. We don’t do gutter journalism here. We don’t do character assassination here. We don’t blackmail. Go to those places that you think you can do those negotiations with. We speak to the facts,” Omanhene Kwabena Asante stated.
 
Emphasising that he was not ready to play into the activities of those people at the Jubilee House, Omanhene Kwabena Asante said, “Take your Jubilee House and let me take my Asempa. So don’t sit there and be placing calls to me They should stay away from some of us and nobody should attempt to drag the name of the Attorney General into the mud.”