General Secretary of the Convention People's Party (CPP), Nana Yaa Jantuah, has expressed some concerns about the leaked report authored by former Chairman of the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining, Prof Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng.

She says there are a lot of inconsistencies in the report.

“I'm confused because reading through the report, I find a lot of consistency. There's something that's not making up,” she said.

Her major concern was with the date the Professor was asked to present the report (.i.e 2019) and when the report was finally released (i.e 2021).

“At what point did all these things [events in the report] happen? If it happened in 2019, why are we not getting a report dated 2019 with a memo on it to the Cabinet, copying the President and everyone involved. Truly this is not the best,” she said.

She further argued that the report in question cannot represent the perspective of the Committee since it entails a lot of ‘I’s which indicates that the report was written from the Professor’s point of view.

“And when I was reading the report, I saw a lot of ‘I’ ‘I’ which means that the report was written by a person but a report covering an issue with the magnitude of galamsey should not be written by a person. It should be written by a team with the Secretary doing the minutes and compiling the report

Additionally, she questioned why the Professor did not release the report or speak up when various allegations were being peddled against him in the past but waited till now before speaking up.

"Someone might even say it is sour grapes because at the time when he was being accused when he was the Minister, the best thing he could have done was to resign, disassociate himself from the claims and expose those being exposed now. So that everyone will know that he's not part,’ she added.

It is in view of these that she contends that there are discrepancies in the report that urgently need to be investigated.

“It means there's a problem with the report that we have to interrogate. The inconsistencies are not very pleasant,” she added.