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Illegal Mining
The National Anti-Illegal Mining Operations Secretariat (NAIMOS) has apprehended five individuals impersonating security personnel while extorting illegal miners in the Western Region.
The Special Prosecutor has spoken for the first time since the explosive report by Prof. Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, revealing rather disturbing accounts of how the presidency and other notable figures were neck-deep in illegal mining, became public.
Member of Parliament (MP) for South Dayi, Rockson-Nelson Dafeamekpor, has suggested that the police should question Professor Frimpong-Boateng, regarding claims he made in his galamsey report.
The Member of Parliament for South Dayi, Rockson-Nelson Dafeamekpor has petitioned the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) to investigate the scandals contained in a report by a former Minister for Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation Prof. Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng on galamsey.
Government says the former Minister for Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation, and Chairperson of the erstwhile Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining (IMCIM), Prof. Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, is yet to submit official report to the presidency on the widely circulated document he authored detailing how the government’s fight against illegal mining was sabotaged by President Akufo-Addo’s own appointees
Former Minister of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation, Prof Kwabena Frimpong Boateng has listed a number of high-profile political figures engaged in illegal mining and those who thwarted an official role assigned to him by President Akufo-Addo to root out the galamsey menace.
Former Minister of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation, Prof Kwabena Frimpong Boateng has named some top government officials as being engaged in the illegal mining canker, popularly known as ‘galamsey’.
