26th April 2023 1:27:44 PM
2 mins readThe Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) has refuted claims that former Minister of Environment, Prof. Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, is involved in illegal mining activities in the country.Per reports, the former minister has acquired some mining concessions illegally.
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But according to CHRAJ Commissioner Joseph Whittal, investigations carried out by the commission prove that the allegations levelled Prof Frimpong-Boateng are spurious.He however clarified that the former Chairman of the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining (IMCIM) has legal concessions he had difficulty operating due to resistance from a community he failed to identify.“We investigated allegations made against Prof Frimpong-Boateng.
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We went in and did a very thorough investigation, came out with our report, a 116-page report, and the offshoot is that he was not involved in any illegal mining concessions,” Mr Joseph Whittal is quoted to have told TV3 on April 25, 2023 by MyJoyOnline.<img src="
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involved in galamsey - CHRAJ"/>CHRAJ Commissioner, Joseph WhittalProf Frimpong-Boateng has been the talk of town for several days after a report on the work of the IMCIM submitted to the presidency surfaced on online tabloids. The 37-page report, dated March 19, 2021, fingered a number of political and government figures of directly and indirectly being involved in illegal mining.
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Among those accused are the late Sir John born Mr Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie, Joseph Albert Quarm, the former MP for Manso Nkwanta, Laud Commey, Charles Nii Teiko and Frank Asiedu Bekoe.“I can state without any equivocation that many party officials from the national to the unit committee level had their friends, PAs, agents, relatives, financiers, or relatives engaged in illegal mining. Most of them engaged Chinese working for them.
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“I am not referring to party people who had their legitimate concession and were mining sustainably as they were instructed to do. There are appointees in the Jubilee House that are doing or supporting illegal mining or interfering with the fight against the menace,” Prof Frimpong-Boateng said in his report.A number of the accused have refuted the claims levelled against them.
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Mr Lord Commey has challenged the former minister to provide evidence to prove his case.
the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has called on the Office of the Special Prosecutor and Parliament to investigate the matter thoroughly.Source: The Independent Ghana
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