The Minister for Lands and Natural Resources Samuel Abu Jinapor, has refuted accusations that President Akufo-Addo’s exonerating Akonta Mining Company Limited will have impact on the Office of the Special Prosecutor’s inquiry currently ongoing.
Akonta Mining, which is co-owned by the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Bernard Antwi-Boasiako, also known as Chairman Wontumi, has been in the headlines for illegally mining in the Tano Nimiri Forest Reserve in the Western Region.
On Wednesday, January 4, President Akufo-Addo defended the mining corporation, claiming that it had not participated in unlawful mining, often known as galamsey at the 28th National and 16th Biennial Congress of the National Union of Ghana Catholic Diocesan Priests Association in Koforidua.
“I want to assure you all that Akonta Mining is not engaged in any form of illegal mining anywhere in Ghana as we speak,” the President confirmed after the Chairman of the occasion had earlier raised concerns about effects of the activities of illegal mining.
In defense of the President, Mr. Jinapor stated on Eyewitness News on Wednesday that the President was just discussing current events and not the company’s historical acts.
“He [Akufo-Addo] wasn’t speaking about the investigation, and he was not speaking about activities of Akonta Mining in the past. If the President had said that Akonta Mining had not engaged in illegal mining in the past then you could say the President is making prejudicial statements, but he was talking about the state of affairs today,” Mr Jinapor told host Umaru Sanda.
“The president was speaking about the state of affairs as it relates to our forest reserves and as it relates to whether or not Akonta mining is involved in illegal mining, and he was giving the assurance that they are not,” he stated.
Source:Mybrytfmonline.com/Joseph Asare
Samuel Abu Jinapor, Lands and Natural Resources minister
Akonta Mining Brouhaha: Akufo-Addo’s Comment Won’t Affect OSP Investigation – Lands Minister Assures
The Minister for Lands and Natural Resources Samuel Abu Jinapor, has refuted accusations that President Akufo-Addo’s exonerating Akonta Mining Company Limited will have impact on the Office of the Special Prosecutor’s inquiry currently ongoing.
Akonta Mining, which is co-owned by the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Bernard Antwi-Boasiako, also known as Chairman Wontumi, has been in the headlines for illegally mining in the Tano Nimiri Forest Reserve in the Western Region.
On Wednesday, January 4, President Akufo-Addo defended the mining corporation, claiming that it had not participated in unlawful mining, often known as galamsey at the 28th National and 16th Biennial Congress of the National Union of Ghana Catholic Diocesan Priests Association in Koforidua.
“I want to assure you all that Akonta Mining is not engaged in any form of illegal mining anywhere in Ghana as we speak,” the President confirmed after the Chairman of the occasion had earlier raised concerns about effects of the activities of illegal mining.
In defense of the President, Mr. Jinapor stated on Eyewitness News on Wednesday that the President was just discussing current events and not the company’s historical acts.
“He [Akufo-Addo] wasn’t speaking about the investigation, and he was not speaking about activities of Akonta Mining in the past. If the President had said that Akonta Mining had not engaged in illegal mining in the past then you could say the President is making prejudicial statements, but he was talking about the state of affairs today,” Mr Jinapor told host Umaru Sanda.
“The president was speaking about the state of affairs as it relates to our forest reserves and as it relates to whether or not Akonta mining is involved in illegal mining, and he was giving the assurance that they are not,” he stated.
Source:Mybrytfmonline.com/Joseph Asare
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